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Lindsay Clancy jurors ask to examine knife; full day of deliberations ends without verdict

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PLYMOUTH, Mass. — During their first full day of deliberations, jurors in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial only asked one question: Could they see the knife Clancy used to slit her wrists and throat and the bottles of pills she was prescribed?

The question came about 40 minutes after they resumed deliberating Friday morning.

After six ...Read more

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Idaho cafe thrust into spotlight after confrontation with anti-abortion activists

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BOISE, Idaho — Jim Sheehan, the owner of a coffee shop in Driggs, has found himself at the center of a firestorm over access to abortion in Idaho.

After Sheehan, who owns Wydaho Roasters, was filmed in mid-August telling members of an anti-abortion rights group not to hold a meeting in his cafe, he has found himself the subject of national ...Read more

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Kohberger files motion to disqualify judge who called him 'a faceless coward'

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BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger’s new attorney has filed a motion to disqualify the judge in his case and has asked for a change of venue for his post-conviction proceeding.

The motions, filed Thursday by attorney Gregory Rauch, come after Kohberger last month in his first media statement since being convicted of the first-degree murders of ...Read more

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British right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos taken into ICE custody

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Right-wing influencer and former Ye campaign adviser Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

ICE’s inmate finder shows the United Kingdom native was being held in Louisiana on Friday. Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, is scheduled to perform a Friday night show in New Orleans.

It’s...Read more

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'That's not the way it is anymore': Newsom signs law to prevent pregnant elected officials from losing their seats

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Califoria Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed a bill into law that rewrites parental leave rules for local elected officials, ensuring that city council members won’t lose their seats when they become new parents.

The Family Friendly City Councils Act, authored by state Assembly member Dawn Addis, D-San Luis Obispo, was inspired by a 2024 ...Read more

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California sues Trump administration, developer over deal to walk away from Morro Bay wind power

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After the Trump administration paid California offshore wind developers to abandon their leases and pursue oil and gas development instead, the state is fighting back.

In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the California Northern District, state Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission allege that one of ...Read more

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US Postal Service appeals order halting mail-in ballot curbs

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s order halting new U.S. Postal Service restrictions on mail-in ballots, moving quickly to reinstate the challenged rules after they were paused in a high-stakes clash that could shape the November midterms and the fight to control Congress.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled ...Read more

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Washington state sued by DOJ over in-state tuition for students without legal status

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SEATTLE — The Department of Justice on Thursday sued Washington and three other states over its policies that allow students in the country without legal status to qualify for in-state tuition at public higher education institutions.

Students lacking legal status have been eligible for in-state tuition rates at Washington state colleges and ...Read more

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Florida couple killed in helicopter crash were targeted by identity theft ring, police say

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MIAMI — Shortly after Henry Parra and Adam Hlavaty were killed in a helicopter crash in Kenya, their home was ransacked and their identities stolen as part of a targeted scheme, just two of the many victims of what police believe is an elaborate criminal network.

Two people have been arrested in connection with the crime so far and more ...Read more

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Two of California's top law enforcement leaders trade barbs over state election integrity

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Two of the highest-ranking law enforcement officials in California are publicly sparring over the integrity of state elections, trading barbs on social media that highlight the fierce partisan divide on the issue heading into the November midterms.

In a post to X on Wednesday, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, the top federal ...Read more

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Barred from speaking, Trump to skip 9/11 25th anniversary ceremony in NYC

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NEW YORK — President Donald Trump will snub the Sept. 11 ceremony at ground zero marking the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks reportedly because he wasn’t going to be permitted to deliver a speech at the event.

Instead of lower Manhattan, Trump is expected to attend a 9/11 ceremony at the Pentagon where he will make a speech, while ...Read more

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Federal judge dismisses reassigned principal's lawsuit against Texas school district

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FORT WORTH, Texas — A federal First Amendment lawsuit filed by a former Fort Worth Independent School District principal against the school district was dismissed Thursday after an ongoing battle over her reassignment, which stemmed from an investigation into her social media posts.

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman issued an opinion and order...Read more

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Grand jury adds 14 additional charges in shooting after Chiefs Super Bowl rally

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson announced her office has filed additional criminal charges against Lyndell Mays, one of three adults accused in the mass shooting outside Union Station following the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory rally on Feb. 14, 2024.

Mays was originally charged with second-degree murder...Read more

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Doctor whose wife is at center of Trump-Epstein claims flees Miami before trial

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MIAMI — A Brazilian doctor whose wife set off a firestorm by linking President Donald Trump and the first lady to Jeffrey Epstein fled from Miami-Dade days before he was set to go to trial for allegedly conducting cosmetic procedures without a license.

Joao Araujo, 57, is now on the lam, telling a Brazilian journalist Sunday he “escaped the...Read more

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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul slams Trump for trade war with Canada, Lake Ontario renaming

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NEW YORK — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday slammed President Donald Trump for jump-starting his trade war with Canada, which she called a lose-lose conflict for both countries that is hitting New York especially hard.

Hochul predicted Trump’s Republican allies will pay a heavy price at the ballot box in the congressional midterm ...Read more

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USC and UCLA bet big on AI to meet soaring student, job market demands

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USC and UCLA are joining the rush to embed artificial intelligence and new digital technologies into college coursework as the academic year begins, announcing new AI majors and initiatives, betting that degrees built partly or entirely around AI will launch careers and pay off after graduation.

At USC, the Viterbi School of Engineering is ...Read more

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Ex-Brazilian model with ties to Melania links Trump envoy to corruption scheme

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Paolo Zampolli, a special envoy for President Donald Trump, was part of a United Nations passport-selling scheme that led to the death of a former U.N. president, according to Amanda Ungaro, an ex-Brazilian model and former U.N. diplomat who had a 20-year-relationship with Zampolli.

In an interview she gave to a Brazilian journalist ...Read more

For decades, researchers thought that bacteria become resistant to antibiotics if patients stopped taking these drugs early. Liudmila Chernetska/iStock via Getty Images Plus

‘Must I take all my antibiotics?’ Why infectious disease experts are rethinking this longstanding rule

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You’ve probably heard it for years, every time you get a prescription for antibiotics: “Make sure to take all the pills.”

Traditionally, clinicians have given two reasons for these strict instructions: So the infection doesn’t come back, and so you don’t end up with bugs so hearty that antibiotics can’t kill them.

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President Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 27, 2026, to rename Lake Ontario 'Lake America' amid an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and Canada. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Lake Ontario to Lake America – who gets to decide what goes on maps?

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On Aug. 27, 2026, President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” claiming his administration had already “notified all of the various people you have to notify.”

The name change, which Ontario Premier Doug Ford had dismissed as rhetoric when it was first suggested, comes amid an ...Read more

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'We won.' 'Winding down.' 'Close to over.': 6 months of Trump on the Iran war

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WASHINGTON — For the last six months, President Donald Trump has attempted to control the narrative of the Iran war.

As days, weeks and months passed, he repeatedly said that an agreement to end the conflict was close at hand and that Iran was already defeated. Between fraught negotiations, Trump has gone from conciliatory to antagonistic, ...Read more