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Trump 'seriously considering' pardon for Diddy ahead of sentencing
President Trump is reportedly considering granting a pardon to Sean “Diddy” Combs after an official decision has been made on his latest $50 million bail petition.
An administration source told Deadline the president is “seriously” weighing a pardon for the hip-hop mogul ahead of his sentencing in October.
Combs’ legal team filed yet...Read more

Mass. Democrats argue public school cellphone ban will improve students' mental health
The highest ranking Democrat in the Massachusetts Senate said a proposal the chamber plans to debate Thursday that would largely ban the use of cellphones in public school classrooms addresses the “greatest distraction device ever created.”
Supporters of a bill that would implement a “bell-to-bell” prohibition on personal electronic ...Read more

LA City Council bans N-word and C-word at meetings
LOS ANGELES — Speakers at Los Angeles City Council meetings will be banned from using the N-word and the C-word, the council decided Wednesday.
The ban comes after years of tirades by a few speakers who attack officials’ weight, sexual orientation or gender and who sometimes use racial slurs.
Speakers will now receive a warning for using ...Read more

Insurance company aims not to cover Kansas City Sports Commission in mass shooting lawsuits
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An insurance company that covered Kansas City’s 2024 Super Bowl parade and rally has filed a claim in federal court, seeking to avoid paying out a policy to the Greater Kansas City Sports Commission concerning the mass shooting after the rally, court records show.
In May, after initially agreeing to defend the sports ...Read more

NJ attorney general announces injunction against Vineland gun store for ammunition sales
Acting on a lawsuit by New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, a state Superior Court judge issued an injunction against a Vineland gun shop that Platkin had accused of selling ammunition to buyers without checking whether they were permitted to possess firearms.
The ruling against Butch’s Gun World in Vineland was made July 22 by Judge ...Read more

Captain who crashed into sailboat in Miami Beach given sobriety test: officials
MIAMI — The Coast Guard conducted an alcohol test on the captain of the tug boat that slammed into a Miami Yacht Club summer-camp sailboat Monday morning in Biscayne Bay, killing two girls and critically injuring two girls, officials said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
Capt. Frank Florio, commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Miami, ...Read more

Michigan senator elevates interfaith plea to get formula to Gaza's babies
WASHINGTON — A U.S. senator is elevating an interfaith plea from a rabbi and a Muslim physician in Michigan to the very top of the State Department: Please help us to get life-saving baby formula into Gaza.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, sent a letter Wednesday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump's envoy to...Read more

Officials tour 'breathtaking' Key Bridge demolition site in Baltimore
BALTIMORE — A contingent of state and federal officials watched as remnants of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge were disassembled on Wednesday morning.
“I know I speak for everybody here that seeing it from this perspective is breathtaking,” Gov. Wes Moore said at the bridge’s southern causeway on Hawkins Point.
Moore said he and...Read more

After 4 months, Florida deportee leaves 'hell' of El Salvador mega-prison
TAMPA, Fla. — Frengel Reyes says he’ll never forget the screams in the dark, the cold bunk bed without blankets, the brutality enforced by the guards.
“Hell is real back there,” Reyes, 25, said about the four months he spent in a mega-prison in El Salvador after he was deported in March from the United States.
“I asked myself the ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis says all Alligator Alcatraz detainees have removal orders. Is that true?
MIAMI — In press conferences and on TV, top Florida officials have repeatedly said that everyone detained at Alligator Alcatraz has been ordered by a judge to be removed from the country.
“Everybody in this facility is on a final removal order,” Kevin Guthrie, the head of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, which oversees ...Read more

North Carolina Republicans advance sweeping new elections bill. Here's what's in it
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday pared down an attempt to convert a wide swath of the State Board of Elections nonpartisan civil service staff into political appointees — advancing an amended elections bill that still includes significant changes to voter ID, ballot counting deadlines, ranked choice voting and more.
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Texas Republicans release draft map targeting several Democratic House seats
WASHINGTON — Texas state Republicans on Wednesday released a new draft congressional map which makes significant changes to districts held by Democrats across the state.
The Lone Star State’s House delegation currently comprises 25 Republicans and 12 Democrats, with one vacancy following the March death of Democrat Sylvester Turner. ...Read more

Report: NYC shooter's boss at Horseshoe Las Vegas purchased key part of gunman's weapon
Shane Tamura’s supervisor at Horseshoe Las Vegas helped him purchase a key part of the weapon he used to kill four people in Manhattan before turning the gun on himself, according to a report from the New York Post.
New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the 27-year-old Las Vegas resident used an AR-15 style semiautomatic ...Read more

Bryan Kohberger waived appeals in his plea deal -- but options remain. What are they?
BOISE, Idaho — When Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to four terms of life in prison on July 23 for the killings of four University of Idaho students, the judge and lead prosecutor noted that it would be the last anyone saw or heard from the 30-year-old convicted murderer who had agreed to a plea agreement in the high-profile quadruple stabbing ...Read more

Traffic stop video shows Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger insisting he's 'honest'
Newly released video from an August 2022 traffic stop shows Bryan Kohberger telling police he’s “obviously an honest person” three months before he brutally murdered four University of Idaho students for reasons that remain unknown.
A Latah County sheriff’s deputy’s body camera captured the mass murderer stating his case after being ...Read more

Traffic stop video shows Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger insisting he's 'honest'
Newly released video from an August 2022 traffic stop shows Bryan Kohberger telling police he’s “obviously an honest person” three months before he brutally murdered four University of Idaho students for reasons that remain unknown.
A Latah County sheriff’s deputy’s body camera captured the mass murderer stating his case after being ...Read more

Jeffries jets into Texas to battle Republican redistricting plan
U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on Wednesday was set to jet into Texas to push back against a Republican plan to redraw congressional districts in a unusual plan that could flip at least five seats.
The Democratic minority leader is seeking to rally opposition to the plan hatched by President Donald Trump and his GOP allies to gerrymander the deep ...Read more

Modest tsunami waves arrive on California coast, damaging Crescent City dock
Modest tsunami waves arrived in California on Wednesday, damaging a dock in Crescent City, following a powerful earthquake that struck Tuesday off Russia’s east coast.
The highest tsunami waves reported on California shores peaked around 4 feet in Crescent City, about 20 miles from the Oregon border, while the highest waves in the U.S. were 5...Read more

Georgia ethics panel alleges First Liberty-linked PAC 'illegally influenced elections'
ATLANTA — The State Ethics Commission on Wednesday accused a conservative political action committee of 61 violations of Georgia law in a case stemming from the collapse of First Liberty Building & Loan.
The Georgia Republican Assembly PAC failed to report tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of campaign expenditures, failed to file numerous...Read more

Aland Etienne, lobby security guard in Park Avenue mass shooting, died trying to stop elevators, NYPD says
NEW YORK — Aland Etienne, the security guard murdered in a mass shooting in the lobby of a Park Avenue skyscraper, spent the final moments of his life trying to save others, NYPD officials revealed Wednesday.
Etienne, 46, “tried to crawl to hit the button to recall the elevators so the elevators wouldn’t go to the top floor,” Deputy ...Read more
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