Crime
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Trial team quits Roger Stone case in dispute over sentence
Feb 12, 2020 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The four lawyers who prosecuted Roger Stone quit the case Tuesday after the Justice Department overruled them and said it would take the extraordinary ...
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NFL team's deep Catholic ties behind role in abuse crisis
Feb 12, 2020 6:00 am - NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Why would an NFL team, even one called the Saints, strike a behind-the-scenes alliance with the Roman Catholic Church on an issue as emotionally fraug...
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Italy: Senate vote on Salvini's immunity follows party lines
Feb 12, 2020 6:00 am - ROME (AP) - The Italian Senate was voting along party lines Wednesday to allow former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to be prosecuted - as he demands to be - for alleg...
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Jussie Smollett's image takes new hit with revived charges
Feb 12, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - He's stopped posting to his Twitter account, his last Instagram post was eight months ago, and his acting and singing careers appear to be at a standstill...
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Transgender felons seek to ease state rules on name changes
Feb 12, 2020 6:00 am - HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A Pennsylvania court this week will consider a legal challenge by three transgender women to a two-decade-old state law that prohibits people who ...
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Rap impostors accused of scamming luxury hotels of thousands
Feb 12, 2020 6:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - A crew of Rolls Royce-riding identity thieves who posed as rap industry figures scammed more than $100,000 from some of the South's most exclusive hotels,...
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Details still murky in police shooting of unarmed Texas man
Feb 12, 2020 6:00 am - Details that have emerged more than two months after a Texas police officer killed an unarmed man during a traffic stop still leave the unanswered question: Why did he p...
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Raid, court case against writer mark France's #MeToo moment
Feb 12, 2020 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Police raided a noted French publishing house Wednesday in their investigation of an 83-year-old writer who celebrated pedophilia in his work as court proce...
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Poland charges 10 with embezzlement, including ex-officials
Feb 12, 2020 6:00 am - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Prosecutors in Poland say they have indicted 10 people with embezzling over 3 million zlotys ($780,000) in money and goods from a regional chapter ...
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Bloomberg once blamed end of 'redlining' for 2008 collapse
Feb 12, 2020 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - At the height of the 2008 economic collapse, then-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the elimination of a discriminatory housing practice known as '...