Nation and World
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Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of online drug market Silk Road
Jan 22, 2025 8:34 pm - President Donald Trump said he granted a pardon Tuesday to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the online marketplace Silk Road — a campaign promise Trump had made to libertarian v...
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Trump shuts off access to asylum, plans to send 10,000 troops to border
Jan 22, 2025 7:31 pm - President Donald Trump is preparing to send around 10,000 troops to the southern border, where they will support Border Patrol agents under new orders to shut off access ...
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Justice Department freezes all cases in civil rights division
Jan 22, 2025 7:31 pm - The Justice Department has ordered its civil rights division to halt all ongoing litigation from the Biden administration and not pursue new cases or settlements, accordi...
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More than 50,000 are under evacuation orders or warnings from fire burning north of Los Angeles
Jan 22, 2025 4:53 pm - LOS ANGELES — More than 50,000 people were ordered to evacuate on Wednesday as a huge and fast-moving wildfire swept through rugged mountains near foothill communities no...
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Supreme Court takes on accountability for police shootings
Jan 22, 2025 4:43 pm - The Supreme Court seemed inclined Wednesday to make it somewhat easier for individuals to try to hold police officers accountable for using deadly force, in a case involv...
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Woman whom prosecutors called ‘slut puppy’ can challenge death sentence
Jan 22, 2025 4:43 pm - When Brenda Andrew was on trial over allegations that she conspired with her lover to murder her estranged husband, witnesses testified about the revealing clothing she w...
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Ku Klux Klan flyers in Kentucky order immigrants to ‘leave now,’ police say
Jan 22, 2025 4:42 pm - Police are investigating after racist flyers purportedly issued by the Ku Klux Klan that directed immigrants to “leave now” and “avoid deportation” were found in several ...
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Winter storm spreads across the Deep South, creating icy danger and snowy fun
Jan 22, 2025 4:27 pm - A major storm spread heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across the southern United States on Wednesday, breaking snow records and treating the region to unaccustomed per...
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A 1,000-pound moose fell into an icy lake. Rescuers had to get creative.
Jan 22, 2025 2:23 pm - It was a bitterly frigid morning in northern New York when a passerby saw an alarming sight: A roughly 1,000-pound moose plunged into a semi-frozen lake. Upon closer insp...
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Afghans who fled Taliban rule urge Trump to lift refugee program suspension
Jan 22, 2025 1:05 pm - Afghans who fled after the Taliban seized power appealed Wednesday to U.S. President Donald Trump to exempt them from an order suspending the relocation of refugees to the United States, some saying they risked their lives to support U.S. troops.