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Army helicopter was flying too high in collision with passenger jet over DCA: NTSB

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army helicopter involved in the midair collision over Ronald Reagan National Airport in January was flying higher than it was supposed to be when it crashed into an American Airlines flight that was about to land at the airport, investigators found.

A hearing on Wednesday investigating the accident found that the ...Read more

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'We did our job': Idaho prosecutor justifies plea deal in Kohberger murder case

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BOISE, Idaho — Just days after sentencing in the most closely watched and scrutinized case of Bill Thompson’s decades-long legal career, he acknowledged that prosecuting Bryan Kohberger, who pleaded guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students, might not have been possible if the killer had not left his DNA at the crime scene.

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Florida releases heavily blacked out Alligator Alcatraz hurricane plan

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Florida emergency management officials released a heavily blacked-out disaster plan for the Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention center on Wednesday, just two days after saying they had no document detailing what the camp would do if threatened by a hurricane.

The 33-page draft plan appears to detail alternate facilities that could be used ...Read more

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US Department of Education opens DEI probe into Duke Law Journal

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The U.S. Department of Education has opened a civil rights probe into the Duke Law Journal after a conservative news outlet reported the academic publication factored law students’ racial and ethnic identities when selecting editors.

“In some, if not all, cases, select applicants were afforded the opportunity to be awarded extra points ...Read more

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Haitians file class-action lawsuit to stop Trump administration from ending TPS

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A group of Haitians with temporary protected status is challenging the Trump administration’s end of legal protections from deportation for nationals of Haiti.

The class-action lawsuit was filed by five beneficiaries of TPS on Wednesday in federal court in the District of Columbia. The suit argues that returning Haitians to a nation being ...Read more

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Democrats blast 'politics of fear' after Trump's claims against Obama, top aides

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Angling to move beyond the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, President Donald Trump has escalated his push to enact revenge on political foes with unfounded allegations of intelligence tampering against Barack Obama and top members of the 44th president’s administration — triggering new alarms from Democrats.

Michigan Sen. Gary Peters on Wednesday ...Read more

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Trump 'seriously considering' pardon for Diddy ahead of sentencing

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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

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Mass. Democrats argue public school cellphone ban will improve students' mental health

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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

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LA City Council bans N-word and C-word at meetings

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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

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Insurance company aims not to cover Kansas City Sports Commission in mass shooting lawsuits

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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

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NJ attorney general announces injunction against Vineland gun store for ammunition sales

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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

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Captain who crashed into sailboat in Miami Beach given sobriety test: officials

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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

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Michigan senator elevates interfaith plea to get formula to Gaza's babies

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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

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Officials tour 'breathtaking' Key Bridge demolition site in Baltimore

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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

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After 4 months, Florida deportee leaves 'hell' of El Salvador mega-prison

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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

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Gov. Ron DeSantis says all Alligator Alcatraz detainees have removal orders. Is that true?

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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

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North Carolina Republicans advance sweeping new elections bill. Here's what's in it

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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

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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

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Report: NYC shooter's boss at Horseshoe Las Vegas purchased key part of gunman's weapon

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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

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Bryan Kohberger waived appeals in his plea deal -- but options remain. What are they?

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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