Groups sue for information on Arctic refuge lease sale

Police: Kidnap suspect may be man who rapped about killing

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man suspected of kidnapping his missing girlfriend may be the same person captured on video rapping in a Los Angeles bar about killing and burying a woman, authorities said Wednesday. The video was made hours before Robert Camou, 27, of suburban Monrovia, was arrested early Tuesday after a five-hour standoff... Read More

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Expert wins settlement in whistleblower case against Cisco

BOSTON (AP) — A computer security expert won a rare payout in a whistleblower lawsuit he filed against Cisco Systems Inc. almost a decade ago, after he reported critical security flaws in Cisco video surveillance software used at major U.S. international airports and federal agencies with critical national security roles. Rather than being rewarded for... Read More

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Advocates: ‘Horrible deja vu’ in continued family separation

NEW YORK (AP) — In the first couple of months after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration last year to stop separating most parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, the number of children sent to New York fell. Then, advocates say, the children started coming again in a steady stream, many too young... Read More

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Jury to find what Katy Perry owes for hit they say she stole

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors are set to hear closing arguments before deciding how much Katy Perry, her collaborators and her record label owe the writers of a Christian rap song over her hit “Dark Horse.” Lawyers for Perry and for the rapper, Marcus Gray, will make their final cases to jurors on Thursday and... Read More

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Jury to get case against woman accused of duping investors

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal jury in Maryland will soon begin deliberating in the case against an Israeli woman charged with orchestrating a scheme to defraud tens of thousands of investors out of tens of millions of dollars. Jurors are expected to hear closing arguments Thursday in the trial of 38-year-old Lee Elbaz before... Read More

Ex-Teamster leader pleads guilty in Chicago extortion case

CHICAGO (AP) — A 59-year-old who was one of Chicago’s most powerful labor leaders has pleaded guilty to receiving over $500,000 in illegal payments and benefits, including the use of a yacht. Former Teamsters Union official, John Coli Sr., changed his plea to guilty Tuesday in a federal case focused on how he squeezed one... Read More

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Woman tells jury ex-UW football player raped her in his home

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The trial of former University of Wisconsin football player Quintez Cephus began Tuesday with a woman testifying that Cephus raped her in his apartment. Cephus, 21, of Macon, Georgia, is charged with second- and third-degree sexual assault after two 18-year-old women reported to police that he had assaulted them on the... Read More

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Attorney: Man is a scapegoat in deadly California fire

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The attorney for one of two men on trial in connection with a fire that killed 36 people at a San Francisco Bay Area warehouse two years ago told the jury in closing arguments Tuesday that his client has been used as a scapegoat and the evidence shows he should be... Read More

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Judge overturns 2006 terror conviction of California man

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday overturned the 2006 conviction of a California man accused of plotting an attack in the United States after attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan. Federal prosecutors were reviewing the decision and did not immediately say whether they will seek to retry Hamid Hayat, a cherry... Read More

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Massachusetts RMV knew of backlog years before deadly crash

BOSTON (AP) — Officials within the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles grappled for years without success to clear chronic backlogs in the processing of notifications sent by other states of infractions by Massachusetts drivers, according to testimony on Tuesday at an oversight hearing prompted by a crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire. Members... Read More

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Planned Parenthood and ACLU suing over Missouri abortion law

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking to stop a Missouri law that bans abortions beyond the eighth week of pregnancy from taking effect Aug. 28. Lawyers for the ACLU and Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services of St. Louis argued in the lawsuit... Read More

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Former athletic trainer gets 12 years in sex abuse case

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A former Montana high school athletic trainer who acknowledged coercing boys into sexual abuse under the guise of improving their athletic performance was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen sentenced James “Doc” Jensen, 79, on charges of coercion and enticement. His prison term will... Read More

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