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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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  • 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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  • 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
A worker pulls a pallet jack with plastic crates at an Amazon warehouse in Robbinsville, N.J. The company is facing its biggest labor battle yet with a unionization vote expected at a facility in Alabama.

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  • Business

Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama Plan Vote On 1st U.S. Union

A labor board hearing is hashing out how and when a vote might take place to form potentially the first U.S. union at one of America's largest employers.

December 18, 2020
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  • Alina Selyukh
The Department of Justice announced that a Texas man convicted last year of fraud and money laundering was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Rodney Mesquias owned a company that falsely told people they would die within six months in order to sell them hospice care.

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  • Law

Texas Man Sentenced To 20 Years For Hospice Fraud Scheme

Thousands of Texas patients with long-term diseases like Alzheimer's were falsely told they had just six months to live. Rodney Mesquias and others were convicted last year.

December 18, 2020
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
Sharron Cohen (second from left) with her husband David Cohen, and son Nathan Cohen with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the steps of the Supreme Court building in 1999.

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  • National

RBG Imparted This To Plaintiff In Gender Equality Case: 'It's All Right To Be A Hero'

Sharron Cohen was the plaintiff in a case that eventually fell to a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And Cohen says that years later, Ginsberg encouraged her to embrace her part in the landmark case.

December 18, 2020
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By:
  • Abe Selby
Google's search page is displayed on a laptop in an arranged photograph taken in New York on July 24. The tech giant was hit by a lawsuit from 38 attorneys general on Thursday, the third major legal challenge against Google in two months.

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  • Technology

Google Hit With Another Lawsuit Challenging Its Dominance

A bipartisan group of 38 attorneys general say Google abuses its power as the Internet's top search destination.

December 17, 2020
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
Tufts employee Gabe Ryan removes the Sackler family name from a building at Tufts University, the first major university to strip the Sackler name from buildings and programs.

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  • National

Sacklers Deny Wrongdoing During House Panel Over Purdue Pharma Oxycontin Sales

Thursday's hearing was the first time members of the Sackler family faced a public accounting for their alleged role in the nation's deadly opioid epidemic.

December 17, 2020
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  • Brian Mann
Attorneys general led by Texas have been investigating Google's powerful role in the digital advertising market.

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  • Technology

Google Hit With 2nd Lawsuit Testing Its Monopoly Power — This One Over Digital Ads

Ten state attorneys general accuse the tech giant of abusing its power to manipulate the digital ad market and crush competitors.

December 17, 2020
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  • Shannon Bond
President-elect Joe Biden is set to name Brenda Mallory to lead his Environmental Quality Council.

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  • News

Biden To Nominate Brenda Mallory To Run Council On Environmental Quality

Mallory, an Obama veteran, would take the helm at a White House office where she worked as former general counsel. The CEQ is seen as critical to address climate change and environmental equity.

December 17, 2020
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By:
  • Neela Banerjee and
  • Rebecca Hersher
Businessman Peter Nygard arrives at Norby Walters' 26th Annual Night Of 100 Stars Oscar Viewing at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 28, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.

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  • Law

Former Fashion Executive Peter Nygard Charged With Sex Trafficking

Nygard, the former CEO of the Canada-based Nygard International, was arrested in Winnipeg on Monday on a U.S request for extradition.

December 17, 2020
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By:
  • Suzanne Nuyen
Albert Corado (right), the father of Melyda Corado, seen in a portrait with her brother Albert Corado Jr. His daughter, assistant manager of a Trader Joe's in Los Angeles, was killed by a police bullet when an armed suspect fled into the store in July 2018.

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  • National

LAPD Officers In 2018 Trader Joe's Shooting Will Not Be Charged In Employee's Death

The district attorney's office said police "acted in lawful self-defense and defense of others." It added the officers won't be held criminally responsible in the death of Melyda Corado.

December 16, 2020
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  • Brakkton Booker
A jetliner arrives at London's Heathrow Airport earlier this year. On Wednesday, the U.K.'s highest court reversed a ban on the airport's controversial plans for a third runway.

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  • Europe

U.K.'s Top Court Lifts Ban On Heathrow's Plans For 3rd Runway

The unanimous judgment represents a stinging reversal for climate activists, who had won a lower-court ruling earlier this year against the major international hub on environmental grounds.

December 16, 2020
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By:
  • Colin Dwyer
A former Houston police captain was charged Tuesday with allegedly running a man off the road and pointing a gun at his head in an attempt to prove his claims of a voter fraud conspiracy.

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  • Law

Ex-Houston Police Officer Charged In Attack Over Bogus Election Fraud Plot

Former police captain Mark Anthony Aguirre was paid $266,400 by the right-wing Liberty Center for God and Country to investigate an alleged ballot fraud scheme in Harris County, Texas.

December 16, 2020
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
A joint investigation by Bellingcat and other media outlets found evidence that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was trailed by Russian spy agents for years before he was poisoned in August.

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  • World

Russian Agents Trailed Opposition Leader Navalny Before Poisoning, Report Finds

An investigation by Bellingcat, an Internet research organization, and other media outlets, revealed that for years, Russian agents secretly followed Alexei Navalny.

December 16, 2020
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
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