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The FBI and postal inspectors are investigating letters — some containing fentanyl — sent to election offices in at least five states.

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  • Elections

Envelopes with fentanyl or other substances were sent to several elections offices

The letters were sent to elections offices in the presidential battlegrounds of Georgia and Nevada, as well as California, Oregon and Washington, with some being intercepted before they arrived.

November 10, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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  • Politics

Colleagues are fed up with Sen. Tommy Tuberville blocking military appointments

Republican Sen. Tuberville of Alabama has been blocking nearly all nominations since February — in protest of Pentagon abortion policy. Senators are getting creative with solutions.

November 09, 2023
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By:
  • Lauren Hodges
GPB News NPR

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  • National

Man accuses riverboat co-captain of assault during Alabama riverfront brawl

Court records show one of the white men accused of assaulting the co-captain during the August brawl filed a complaint last month saying the co-captain hit him first during the chaotic melee.

November 09, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The Aurora ICE Processing Center in Colorado currently holds more than 600 immigrant detainees on behalf of the federal government. The facility is operated by GEO Group, a for-profit government contractor.

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  • Investigations

ICE releases investigation into immigrant's death after months of 'inexcusable' delay

Under pressure, the government released a report examining the death of an immigrant in ICE custody. The report found multiple failures, but did not indicate they caused the migrant's death.

November 09, 2023
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
The entrance to the Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee in Florida.

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  • Law

Justice Department watchdog finds alarming conditions inside Florida federal prison

The inspector general's office found inmates served moldy bread, containers of food covered by what appear to be rodent droppings and insects in bags of cereal.

November 09, 2023
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  • Ryan Lucas
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

Regulators are alarmed by conditions inside a federal prison in Florida

The Justice Department's inspector general's office in May conducted an unannounced inspection at the facility in Tallahassee.

November 09, 2023
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  • Ryan Lucas and
  • Leila Fadel
Inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife.

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  • Law

Alabama sets January execution date using nitrogen gas

Alabama has set a January execution date for what would be the nation's first attempt to put an inmate to death using nitrogen gas.

November 09, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

3 are charged with running sex ring that catered to politicians, military and others

DOJ says possibly hundreds of clients include government contractors with security clearances, doctors, lawyers, elected officials, military officers, professors and executives at tech companies.

November 08, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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  • Business

The FTC is threatening legal action against drugmakers over patent abuses

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, about drug companies holding patents on medications for much longer than they're supposed to.

November 08, 2023
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GPB News NPR

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  • Technology

WeWork files for bankruptcy in a stunning downfall from its $47 billion heyday

With its flexible office spaces, WeWork once was seen as a Silicon Valley darling led by an eccentric and charismatic founder. Financial troubled intervened, followed by the pandemic.

November 07, 2023
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely to uphold a law that bans gun possession for anyone covered by a domestic violence court order.

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  • Law

High court seems likely to uphold law banning guns for accused domestic abusers

If so, the decision would be a small retreat from the Supreme Court's sweeping decision on gun rights last year.

November 07, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg
GPB News NPR

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  • Elections

An exonerated 'Central Park Five' member will win a seat on the New York City Council

Yusef Salaam was one of five Black and Latino teens who were wrongly imprisoned for raping a jogger in 1989 before their convictions were overturned in 2002.

November 07, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The U.S. Supreme Court hears argument Tuesday in yet another gun-rights case.

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  • Law

Supreme Court to decide if gun bans for domestic abusers are constitutional

If the federal law falls, so would similar laws in most states, and other important gun laws.

November 07, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
"There's a lot of memories here, some good, some bad," said Danny Smith, reflecting on his years working at the now-defunct Solid Energy mine in Pike County, Ky. Smith, 51, suffers from an advanced and incurable stage of black lung disease.

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  • Health

As coal miners suffer and die from severe black lung, a proposed fix may fall short

For decades, miners have called for limits on highly toxic silica dust, which they're exposed to while mining. An investigation shows its impact and the weakness of proposed rules to protect them.

November 07, 2023
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By:
  • Howard Berkes,
  • Justin Hicks,
  • and 1 more
A photo collage of the 34 victims of the Sept. 2, 2019 fire aboard the dive boat, Conception, at Santa Cruz Island, is held by a family member arriving at federal court in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023.

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  • National

Captain found guilty of 'seaman's manslaughter' in deadly California boat fire

A federal jury found a scuba dive boat captain was criminally negligent in the deaths of 34 people killed in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019, the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history.

November 07, 2023
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