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China's market regulator announced Thursday that it had opened an investigation into the  e-commerce giant, Alibaba, for alleged anticompetitive activities.

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  • Asia

Chinese Regulators Open Investigation Into E-Commerce Giant Alibaba

China's State Administration for Market Regulation is focusing on allegations that Alibaba forces merchants on its website to sell only on its platform.

December 24, 2020
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Migrants from Haiti, Africa, and Central America wait to see if their number will be called to cross the border and apply for asylum in the United States, at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, in September 2019.

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  • National

Immigrant Advocates Vow To Keep Up The Pressure As Biden Asks For Patience

President-elect Joe Biden says he will roll back many of President Trump's actions on immigration — but it will take longer than immigrant advocates might have hoped.

December 24, 2020
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By:
  • Joel Rose
President Trump emerges from the Oval Office on Wednesday as he departs the White House en route to Florida's Mar-a-Lago, where he will spend Christmas and New Year's Eve.

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  • Politics

Trump Pardons Roger Stone, Paul Manafort And Charles Kushner

The announcement comes as part of a wave of pardons and commutations in the final weeks of Trump's presidency.

December 24, 2020
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By:
  • Amita Kelly,
  • Ryan Lucas,
  • and 1 more
Blackwater guards, from left, Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nicholas Slatten and Paul Slough were pardoned by President Trump this week. The former government contractors were convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more a dozen Iraqi civilians dead.

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  • Politics

Shock And Dismay After Trump Pardons Blackwater Guards Who Killed 14 Iraqi Civilians

"We were surprised that the American president issued a decision to pardon these criminals, murderers and thugs," says an Iraqi man who was shot in the 2007 massacre at Baghdad's Nisour Square.

December 23, 2020
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney, with lawyer Sidney Powell last month in Washington. They, the Trump campaign and others face a lawsuit by an employee of Dominion Voting Systems, a vendor that has been the subject of disinformation from Trump and his allies.

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  • Elections

Dominion Voting Systems Employee Sues Trump Campaign And Allies, Alleging Defamation

Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell are among those named in the suit by Eric Coomer, Dominion's product security director, who is in hiding over threats stemming from conspiracy theories about his work.

December 23, 2020
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By:
  • Bente Birkeland
A Marine stands outside the West Wing of the White House last week. President Trump has been lobbied by advocates to use his powers to grant pardons and commutations ahead of leaving office.

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  • Politics

Trump Grants Slew Of Pardons, Including To George Papadopoulos And Duncan Hunter

In all, President Trump granted full pardons to 15 individuals and commuted part or all of the sentences of an additional five.

December 23, 2020
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo,
  • Ayesha Rascoe,
  • and 3 more
The Justice Department previously declined to comment on how it is implementing President Trump's executive order, but most diversity programs there appear to have been put on hold since autumn.

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  • Politics

DOJ Whistleblowers Call For Investigation Into Canceled Diversity Programs

Justice Department whistleblowers are calling on federal watchdogs and members of Congress to investigate what they call illegal and abusive government directives that chill diversity speech.

December 23, 2020
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
A Columbus, Ohio, police officer was removed from duty temporarily following the fatal shooting of a Black man early Tuesday. The officer behind the shooting didn't turn on his body-worn camera to record the shooting.

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  • National

Ohio Officer Removed From Duty After Fatal Shooting Of Black Man

The shooting of the as-yet unidentified man in Columbus is the second this month where officers' body cameras weren't switched on.

December 23, 2020
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Walmart, alleging that the company's unlawful actions resulted in hundreds of thousands of violations of the Controlled Substances Act.

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  • National

Justice Department Sues Walmart, Alleging It Illegally Dispensed Opioids

Damages could total in the billions. "Walmart had the responsibility and the means to help prevent the diversion of prescription opioids. Instead, for years, it did the opposite," the government said.

December 22, 2020
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
LEAP fellows Astrid Saenz, Fatima Salcido, and Victor Briseno participating in a law school application workshop.

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  • Law

'Already Behind': Diversifying The Legal Profession Starts Before The LSAT

With the percentage of Black lawyers stagnant over the last 10 years and clients demanding more diverse lawyers, a lot needs to be done to diversify a profession that is 86% white.

December 22, 2020
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By:
  • Marisa Manzi and
  • Nina Totenberg
A police officer walks on Dec. 21, 1988, by the nose of Pan Am Flight 103 near Lockerbie, Scotland, where it lay after a bomb aboard exploded, killing a total of 270 people.

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  • Law

32 Years Later, U.S. Charges Alleged Bomb-Maker In Pan Am Flight 103 Attack

The new charges follow decades of work by Justice Department leaders aimed at investigating and prosecuting those responsible for 270 deaths.

December 21, 2020
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
Attorney General William Barr holds a news conference on Monday.

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  • Politics

Barr Says No Need For Special Counsel For Hunter Biden Probe, Election Fraud Claims

William Barr put a damper on two ideas President Trump has reportedly raised in recent days during what was likely his last press conference as attorney general.

December 21, 2020
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot accepted the resignation of the city's top attorney, Mark Flessner, Sunday. Flessner resigned due to an ongoing scandal surrounding a botched police raid in 2019.

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  • Law

Chicago's Top Attorney Resigns Following Scandal Over Botched Police Raid

Chicago officials continue to deal with the fallout over the release of police body cam video showing a 2019 raid by city officers of a Black woman's house, which later proved to be the wrong address.

December 21, 2020
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
GPB News NPR

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  • Politics

Delays Continue In Talks For New Coronavirus Aid Package

A new congressional delay means Americans will have to keep waiting for additional pandemic relief from Washington.

December 19, 2020
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By:
  • Susan Davis
Protesters carrying signs about the census gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019. Immigrant rights advocates have vowed to continue fighting President Trump's proposal.

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  • Law

Supreme Court Punts Census Case, Giving Trump An Iffy Chance To Alter Numbers

The opinion said the case was "riddled with contingencies and speculation" that impede judicial review. The president has sought to use a census count that does not include undocumented immigrants.

December 19, 2020
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Hansi Lo Wang
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