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Assailants Attack City In Southern Brazil In Series Of Brazen Early Morning Heists

Over the course of two hours, several heavily armed men laid siege to the coastal city of Criciúma, where they blew up ATMs and took hostages.

December 01, 2020
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Macon-Bibb Sheriff David Davis

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  • Law

This Month 9 People Were Killed In Macon. Here's How Local Officials Plan To Respond

Entering the final month of what has already been a record-breaking year for violent deaths in Macon, county officials on Monday denounced “senseless, crazy conduct” that included a Thanksgiving-weekend slaying in the heart of downtown that left a young woman dead, five people shot and wounded and two others stabbed.

December 01, 2020
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By:
  • Joe Kovac
The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case involving the Trump administration's desire to exclude undocumented immigrants from a key census count.

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  • Law

Supreme Court Looks For Ways To Wait Out Trump On Key Census Question

Justices expressed doubts about a plan to cut undocumented immigrants from a key census count — one that would exclude them for purposes of drawing new congressional districts.

November 30, 2020
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and Gov. Doug Ducey exchange election documents as they certify election results Monday at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix.

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  • Elections

Arizona And Wisconsin Certify Election Results, Affirming Biden Victories

"We do elections well here in Arizona. The system is strong and that's why I have bragged on it so much," said GOP Gov. Doug Ducey. Meanwhile, the state GOP tweeted, "DO NOT CERTIFY A FALSE ELECTION!"

November 30, 2020
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case involving the U.S. census.

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  • Law

Can Trump Change A Key Census Count? Supreme Court Hears His Claim

The Constitution says that for reallocating House seats, the census must count the "whole number of persons" in each state. But President Trump wants to subtract undocumented immigrants.

November 30, 2020
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Saturday rejected a lawsuit by Republicans challenging the state's mail-in voting law.

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  • Elections

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rejects Republican Suit To Throw Out Ballots

One justice writes: "It is not our role to lend legitimacy to such transparent and untimely efforts to subvert the will of Pennsylvania voters."

November 29, 2020
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  • Jason Slotkin
Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Trump, speaks this week at a hearing of the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee in Gettysburg. A federal appeals court threw out Trump's legal challenge to the election contest in Pennsylvania on Friday.

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  • Law

'Voters, Not Lawyers, Choose The President': Trump Team Dealt Another Blow In Court

In a blistering opinion, a federal appeals court has thrown out the Trump campaign's challenge to the certification of votes in Pennsylvania. Trump's lawyers say they will appeal to the Supreme Court.

November 28, 2020
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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
A former FARC guerrilla member waves a FARC political party flag during a demonstration in Bogota on Nov. 2. A federal court overturned an asylum decision Wednesday, holding that FARC death threats counted as persecution.×

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  • Law

Death Threats, Even In Writing, Can Be Grounds For Asylum, Appeals Court Says

The court overturned a Justice Department decision denying the asylum of a former Colombia police officer who received multiple death threats from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

November 27, 2020
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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
Kylie Moore-Gilbert, returned home to Australia Nov. 27, after serving more than two years in Iranian prison over claims she was a spy.

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  • World

Australian Professor Returns Home Following 2-Year Imprisonment In Iran

Kylie Moore Gilbert, an Australian professor, was arrested in Iran in 2018 and later received a 10-year prison sentence for espionage, charges which she vehemently denies.

November 27, 2020
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Then challenger Kim Foxx smiles at the crowd with her husband Kelley, as they celebrate her primary win as Cook County State's Attorney in 2016.

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  • National

Newly Elected DAs Vow To Continue Reforms, End Policies Deemed Unfair

Reform-minded prosecutors who want to change the criminal justice system from the inside won big in November. It's momentum for a small, but growing movement.

November 26, 2020
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By:
  • Cheryl Corley
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  • Law

Supreme Court Blocks Attendance Restrictions Due To COVID-19 In New York

David Greene talks to law professor Kim Wehle about the the Supreme Court's ruling preventing New York from enforcing attendance limits on places of worship in areas designated COVID-19 hot spots.

November 26, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
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  • National

Trump Pardons Michael Flynn Despite Guilty Plea For Lying About Russia Contact

President Trump has pardoned his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who spent years enmeshed in an often bizarre legal war with the government that sprang from the Russia investigation.

November 26, 2020
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas joined another Trump-appointed federal judge in voting to dismiss a Washington, D.C.-based lawsuit over President Trump's efforts to omit unauthorized immigrants from the census numbers that set up the next Electoral College map.

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  • National

Federal Court Rejects Challenge To Trump's Push To Alter A Key Census Count

In a 2-1 vote, the court tossed out a lawsuit, one of several working through the courts, that challenged a memo on excluding unauthorized immigrants from numbers that reset the Electoral College map.

November 26, 2020
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
President Trump has pardoned Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser, pictured at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C., in July 2018.

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  • Politics

Trump Pardons Michael Flynn, Who Pleaded Guilty To Lying About Russia Contact

President Trump has pardoned his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador. It was announced on Twitter.

November 25, 2020
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
Protesters gather for a news conference in Atlanta earlier this year, shortly after the release of a complaint by whistleblower Dawn Wooten, a nurse at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga.

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  • Law

U.S. Agrees To Pause Deportations For Women Alleging Abuse At ICE Facility

Dozens of immigrant women have said they received unwanted gynecological procedures at Irwin County Detention Center. Yet even as authorities investigate, the accusers have been in danger of removal.

November 24, 2020
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  • Colin Dwyer
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