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The Justice Department is scrapping a program that it launched under the Trump administration to counter Beijing's theft of American intellectual property.

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  • Law

The Justice Department is ending its controversial China Initiative

The initiative aimed to counter China's theft of American secrets and technology, but critics said it created a climate of fear among Asian Americans.

February 24, 2022
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  • Ryan Lucas
A police officer mans a checkpoint near Parliament Hill on Wednesday in Ottawa. Ottawa protesters who vowed never to give up are largely gone, chased away by police in riot gear in what was the biggest police operation in the nation's history.

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  • World

Trudeau revokes emergency powers after Canada blockades end

On Friday, authorities launched the largest police operation in Canadian history, arresting at least 191 people and towing about about 80 vehicles until the streets in front of Parliament were clear.

February 23, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A protester gathers containers that look like OxyContin bottles at an anti-opioid demonstration in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 2019.

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  • National

Corporate opioid payouts now being finalized would top $32 billion

Companies at the center of the deadly prescription opioid epidemic are close to deals that would cap their liability while funding drug treatment and recovery programs.

February 23, 2022
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  • Brian Mann
Brett Hankison (left) exits the courtroom after the first day of jury selection in his trial on Feb. 8, in Louisville, Ky. Hankison is on trial for allegedly firing shots into the apartment next door to Breonna Taylor's the night she was killed.

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  • National

Trial begins for a former officer charged in the raid that killed Breonna Taylor

Brett Hankison fired 10 shots near a side door during the 2020 raid in Louisville, Ky., but none hit Breonna Taylor. Prosecutors say the bullets endangered her neighbors — a couple and their child.

February 23, 2022
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  • The Associated Press

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  • Law

Supreme Court to consider case pitting religious rights against LGBTQ discrimination

In 2017, the court heard a very similar challenge to Colorado's anti-discrimination law from a baker who objected to creating cakes for same-sex weddings.

February 23, 2022
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  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Ryan Ellingson
GPB News NPR

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  • National

A jury finds Ahmaud Arbery's 3 killers guilty of federal hate crimes

A jury in Brunswick, Ga., found defendants Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan guilty of hate crimes in the 2020 shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery.

February 23, 2022
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  • Liz Baker
A painting of Ahmaud Arbery is displayed during a vigil at New Springfield Baptist Church on Wednesday in Waynesboro, Ga.

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  • National

Georgia marks statewide 'Ahmaud Arbery Day' to honor the slain jogger

This year's anniversary of Arbery's death comes one day after his three convicted killers, who are white, were found guilty of targeting Arbery because of his race in a federal hate crimes trial.

February 23, 2022
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  • Joe Hernandez
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

Ahmad Arbery's 3 killers found guilty of federal hate crimes

A jury in Brunswick, Ga., has reached a verdict in the case of three white men facing hate crimes charges in the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery.

February 23, 2022
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  • A Martínez and
  • Debbie Elliott
Ethan Crumbley attends a hearing at Oakland County circuit court in Pontiac, Mich., on Tuesday over where the teen will be detained as he awaits trial. Crumbley, 15, is charged with the fatal shooting of four fellow students and the wounding of seven others, including a teacher, at Oxford High School in November.

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  • Law

Judge to rule if Michigan school shooter will stay in an adult jail

Text messages and items from a journal were offered by prosecutors as reasons to keep Ethan Crumbley in a cell at the Oakland County Jail instead of having him transferred to a juvenile facility.

February 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

Prosecutor in George Floyd civil rights trial says 3 officers 'chose to do nothing'

A major part of the three former police officers' defense is that they were inadequately trained in intervention and that they deferred to the senior officer on the scene.

February 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks near the Rio Grande in September 2021 in Del Rio, Texas. Texas has been leading the legal effort against the Biden administration's border and immigration policies.

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  • National

A key pillar of Biden's immigration policy is going on trial this week in Texas

Much of President Biden's immigration agenda has already been blocked by federal judges. Limits on ICE enforcement could be the next policy to fall when a judge in Texas holds a trial this week.

February 22, 2022
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  • Joel Rose
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department is aware that classified material has been found on former President Donald Trump's property in Mar-a-Lago.

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  • Law

Garland confirms classified material found among records taken from Trump's Mar-a-Lago

But the attorney general would not confirm that a federal probe on the matter is underway. He said the Justice Department would "look at the facts and the law and take it from there."

February 22, 2022
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  • Carrie Johnson
The family and attorneys of the Ahmaud Aubery raise their arms in victory after all three men were found guilty of hates crimes at the federal courthouse in Brunswick, Ga., on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. Greg McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan, the three men convicted of murder in Arbery’s fatal shooting have been found guilty of federal hate crimes.

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  • Law

“He will now begin to rest in power”: parents of Ahmaud Arbery celebrate verdict in hate crimes case

Wanda Cooper-Jones and Marcus Arbery praised the guilty verdict, while vowing to continue pursuing justice for their son and remembering his legacy.

February 22, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
Abortion-rights activists in Colombia celebrate Monday in Bogota after the Constitutional Court approved the decriminalization of abortion, lifting all limitations on the procedure until the 24th week of pregnancy.

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  • Latin America

Colombia's highest court legalizes abortion up to 24 weeks

The decision by the tribunal of nine judges fell short of the expectations of pro-choice groups that had been pushing for abortion to be completely decriminalized in Colombia.

February 21, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Thomas Lane testified at his federal trial that officers considered using a type of restraint known as the hobble because George Floyd was kicking and had hurt himself, but that it seemed "excessive" because an ambulance was on the way.

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  • Law

Defense rests in federal trial of 3 police officers in George Floyd's killing

Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane's co-defendants, Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng, presented their cases last week.

February 21, 2022
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