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Montana health officials are seeking to increase oversight of nonprofit hospitals amid debate about whether they pay their fair share. The proposal comes nine months after a KHN investigation found that some of Montana's wealthiest hospitals, such as the Billings Clinic, lag behind state and national averages in community giving.

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  • Health

Montana health officials call for more oversight of nonprofit hospitals

Montana is one of the latest states to suggest many nonprofit hospitals aren't giving back enough in charitable contributions to the community to justify their tax-exempt status.

September 27, 2022
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  • Katheryn Houghton
A Mississippi man is facing a hate crime charge and arson violations after he allegedly burned a cross in his front yard to threaten a Black family.

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  • National

A Mississippi man burned a cross in a hate crime, the U.S. Justice Department alleges

The 23-year-old suspect burned the cross in front of his Black neighbors because of their race, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

September 27, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Allison Case is a family medicine physician who is licensed to practice in both Indiana and New Mexico. Via telehealth appointments, she's used her dual license in the past to help some women who have driven from Texas to New Mexico, where abortion is legal, to get their prescription for abortion medication. Then came Indiana's abortion ban.

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  • Health

Telemedicine abortions just got more complicated for health providers

Prescribing medical abortions across state lines is now risky for doctors. "We're talking about something that's a protected right in one state and a felony in a sister state," says one legal scholar.

September 26, 2022
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By:
  • Farah Yousry
A New Orleans police vehicle patrols Bourbon Street.

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  • Law

An ex-officer accused of sexually assaulting a teen rape victim faces federal charges

The U.S. Justice Department alleges that Rodney Vicknair committed a civil rights violation when he sexually assaulted a victim in 2020.

September 24, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Protesters march around the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix after the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. A new Arizona law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy takes effect Saturday, Sept. 24.

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  • Law

An Arizona judge rules that the state can enforce a near-total abortion ban

The judge lifted a decades-old injunction that has long blocked enforcement of the law on the books since before Arizona became a state that bans nearly all abortions.

September 23, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Video of Amy Cooper calling the police Monday on a man has gone viral on social media. The man says he asked Cooper to put her dog on a leash in New York's Central Park.

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  • Law

The woman who called 911 on a Black bird watcher wasn't wrongfully fired, judge rules

Amy Cooper, a white woman, lost her job as a portfolio manager at a New York investment firm after she called the police on a Black man who asked her to put her dog on a leash.

September 23, 2022
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  • Ayana Archie
The Department of Justice building is seen in Washington, D.C., on August 9, 2022.

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  • Law

DOJ's reproductive rights group is watching for state changes that violate federal law

The Justice Department is leading an effort to monitor changes in state law after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.

September 23, 2022
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  • Carrie Johnson
Andrea Guice, right, talks to Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole spokesperson Steve Hayes after the board's September meeting. Guice's brother has served 8 years in prison after his first possible parole date. "Who do we need to talk to and how can we, you know, get together with the system to make it better for him?” Guice asked.

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  • Law

For families, Georgia parole is a painful waiting game

The worst prison sentences — life without parole or even death — are relatively rare. For everyone else, there is the hope of parole. But critics of Georgia’s correction system say parole doesn’t happen as often as it could or should.

September 23, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
Alan Eugene Miller is shown Aug. 5, 1999. Alabama officials called off the Thursday lethal injection of Miller because of time concerns and trouble accessing the inmate's veins.

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  • Law

Alabama calls off execution for time and medical concerns

Alabama corrections officials said the state halted the scheduled execution of Alan Miller after they determined they could not get the lethal injection underway before a midnight deadline.

September 23, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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  • Politics

U.S. Congress reaches a milestone in Indigenous representation

As of Sept. 13, six Indigenous Americans are in the House of Representatives, which now has Native American, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native members.

September 22, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol is seen during a public session in July. The panel has scheduled another hearing for next week.

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  • Elections

Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, will speak with the House Jan. 6 panel

The committee asked to interview Thomas on her communications with a lawyer pushing for then-Vice President Pence to block the count of the 2020 election results.

September 22, 2022
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By:
  • Claudia Grisales and
  • Deirdre Walsh
Pages from a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta ruling that lifts a judge's hold on the Justice Department's ability to use classified documents seized by the FBI at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

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  • Law

An appeals court rules the DOJ can regain access to documents seized from Mar-a-Lago

A federal appeals court has permitted the Justice Department to resume its use of classified records seized from Donald Trump's Florida estate as part of its ongoing criminal investigation.

September 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Bou Meng, second from left, former prison survivor, is helped into the courtroom before the hearings against Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge head of state, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022.

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  • Asia

After 16 years and 3 convictions, an international tribunal closes down in Cambodia

An international court convened in Cambodia to judge the brutalities of the Khmer Rouge regime that caused the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people in the 1970s ends its work Thursday.

September 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
New York State Attorney General Letitia James, pictured in February, filed a civil lawsuit on Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, saying he "falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself, to cheat the system."

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  • Law

New York's attorney general sues Trump and 3 of his children for alleged fraud

AG Letitia James is seeking $250 million in damages and to bar Trump and his children from conducting business in New York state, where they built their fortune.

September 21, 2022
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By:
  • Brian Mann
Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane is already serving a 2 1/2-year federal sentence for violating George Floyd's civil rights.

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  • National

A former Minneapolis officer is sentenced to 3 years for aiding George Floyd's death

Former police officer Thomas Lane, who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd, was sentenced on Wednesday.

September 21, 2022
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