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Biden appointee added to prosecution in Bryan Kohberger's Idaho student murder trial

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BOISE, Idaho — A former U.S. attorney for Idaho has joined the team prosecuting Idaho college student homicide defendant Bryan Kohberger.

Josh Hurwit, 44, chosen by former President Joe Biden for his prior role, left the appointed position in February in the transition to President Donald Trump. Now Hurwit will assist in the state’s case ...Read more

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Karen Read murder retrial: Jury selection day 3 ends with 10 total jurors

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BOSTON — On the third day of juror selection in the Karen Read retrial attorneys brought the total number of jurors in the final pool to 10.

Attorneys added seven to the final jury pool during the previous two days and ended with 10 on the third day: five men and five women. There was a total of 19 jurors selected for trial in the first go-...Read more

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Karen Read files double jeopardy petition with Supreme Court

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BOSTON — As jury selection unfolds in the Karen Read retrial in Dedham her attorneys have taken their efforts to overturn the murder charge all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Read, 45, of Mansfield, is accused of striking John O’Keefe, her boyfriend of two years and a 16-year Boston police officer, with her car and leaving him to die in...Read more

Tariffs are affecting NC small businesses. It's not just about higher costs

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In 2024, Chris Pence was in talks with multiple Canadian distributors to bring his North Carolina company’s products to additional customers.

Haand, the Burlington-based ceramics company he co-founded with Mark Warren in 2012, had already been doing business with Canadian firms. The Canadian hospitality industry was growing, Pence said, and ...Read more

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Emails expose attack on Maine Social Security over Trump's feud with governor

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President Trump’s administration intentionally made a mess of Social Security operations in Maine as part of an unrelated feud with the state’s governor, according to emails released Wednesday.

Trump’s pick to lead the Social Security Administration, Leland Dudek, briefly canceled longstanding contracts in the state in March. The ...Read more

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Europeans are outliving Americans -- even the wealthy, study finds. Why?

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Americans are falling behind Europeans in lifespan, even among older and wealthier groups, a Brown University study found.

The study compared age groups and income across the United States and 16 European countries, ultimately including 73,838 participants between the ages of 50 and 85, and was published April 2 in the New England Journal of ...Read more

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Could Nevada legalize medical aid in dying?

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A push to legalize medical aid in dying in Nevada is in the Legislature is once again, despite several failed efforts that included a veto from Gov. Joe Lombardo two years ago.

Assembly Bill 346 would allow terminally ill patients to self-administer medication to end their lives if they meet the bill’s eligibility criteria. It includes rules ...Read more

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Trump's tariff hikes raise concerns on impact to schools, economy, Whitmer says

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ALPENA, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Thursday she is worried about the effects of the tariff hikes President Donald Trump announced Wednesday and the damper they could have on economic growth and state tax revenues.

Trump announced 25% tariffs last week on imported vehicles and certain major auto parts would begin to be collected ...Read more

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California announces plans to relax protections for wolves as population grows

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In the latest sign that wolves are continuing to make a comeback across California after being hunted out of existence for nearly a century, state wildlife officials have announced that population numbers have increased enough that they plan to relax rules that have set strict protections on the high-profile species.

The state Department of ...Read more

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Philly clergy build an altar outside of ICE headquarters, demanding return of church protection from immigration arrests

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PHILADELPHIA — Clergy from across Philadelphia erected an altar in front of ICE headquarters on Thursday, decorating it with fruit, flowers and crosses in a prayerful protest against the Trump administration’s decision to let agents make immigration arrests in churches.

The demonstration spilled off the sidewalk and onto Eighth Street in ...Read more

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Georgia GOP lawmakers make eleventh-hour bid to expand government secrecy

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ATLANTA — State legislators and the police could shield more of their work from the public under a surprise last-minute proposal which emerged in the General Assembly.

Under Senate Bill 12, legislators could keep secret their communications with state agencies.

The bill also could make it harder to get basic information from police incident ...Read more

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Florida lawmakers sending demand letters to state agencies amid government-spending probe

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Citing “deep frustration” and a lack of cooperation by officials in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration, House budget leaders are issuing demand letters to some state agencies amid a probe into possibly wasteful government spending.

The House’s inquiry into agencies’ finances, ordered by Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, is part of a ...Read more

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Michigan review finds 15 probable non-US citizens who voted in November

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LANSING, Mich. — A months-long review by the Michigan Secretary of State's office has identified 15 individuals who allegedly are not U.S. citizens but still cast ballots in the November presidential election in Michigan.

The findings, released Thursday to The Detroit News, indicated the potentially illegal votes represented less than 0.0003%...Read more

Substitute teacher offered student $2,000 to kill her husband, Ohio officials say

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An Ohio substitute teacher was arrested after officials said she tried to hire a student to kill her estranged husband.

Stephanie Demetrius, 44, was arrested April 2 on a charge of felony conspiracy, according to court records.

Demetrius was a substitute teacher at the Academy for Urban Scholars High School in Columbus, according to WCMH.

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Federal cuts to Title X health programs put Western Pa. clinics on alert

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Health clinics throughout the state, including dozens in Western Pennsylvania, are among those impacted by federal funding cuts to a program that directs millions of dollars to help low-income people access family planning services.

Pennsylvania is the third-highest recipient of Title X funding nationally, having received $13.5 million last ...Read more

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Emmer cheers on tariffs, Trump's second term during first telephone town hall

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Rep. Tom Emmer, the No. 3 Republican in the U.S. House, held his first town hall of the year Wednesday night.

The town hall came as activists across the state and in his district have been urging Emmer and Minnesota’s three other Republicans in Congress to hold an in-person town hall to discuss President Donald Trump’s agenda and tech ...Read more

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Thousands of Oakland docs seized by feds reveal inner workings of ex-Mayor Sheng Thao's orbit

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OAKLAND, Calif. — Long before the FBI raids last summer that sent Mayor Sheng Thao’s career into a nightmarish spiral, an army of staffers appeared hard at work getting her governing plans for Oakland off the ground.

Across scores of emails and paperwork, the officials who helped steer the early days of Thao’s administration in 2023 ...Read more

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Pentagon watchdog to investigate Signal chat on Houthi attack

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s inspector general will conduct an investigation of the Signal group chat where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other Trump administration officials discussed details of an impending attack on Houthi militants in Yemen.

“We are initiating the subject evaluation” in response to a request from lawmakers for �...Read more

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Rubio says US won't quit NATO in push for defense spending

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted that Donald Trump’s administration has no intention of leaving NATO even as the U.S. envoy demanded members of the military alliance ratchet up spending.

The comments offer a measure of reassurance to European allies reeling from the prospect of American withdrawal and the U.S. president’s punishing ...Read more

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Senate confirms Oz for CMS administrator on party-line vote

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WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 53-45, on a party-line vote.

The confirmation of Mehmet Oz, known best for his time as a TV personality and host of the daytime talk show “The Dr. Oz Show,” will put him in charge of the federal agency ...Read more