‘This is my family’: Where the travel ban debate hits home

NEW YORK (AP) — At the New York City convenience store where he works the overnight shift, Radad Alborati takes a sip of coffee and surveys his life. His wife is stuck in war-torn Yemen after his yearslong effort to bring her to the U.S. ended last month with a few phrases on a letter... Read More

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Immigration, Travel Ban

April 20, 2018

Alabama mail-bomber the oldest executed in US modern times

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of sending mail bombs during a wave of Southern terror has been executed for killing a federal judge, becoming the oldest prisoner put to death in the U.S. in modern times. Walter Leroy Moody Jr., 83, was pronounced dead at 8:42 p.m. following an injection at the... Read More

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Leroy Moody, Walter Leroy Moody Jr.

April 20, 2018

‘Pharma Bro’ moves to New Jersey _ for federal prison stay

FORT DIX, N.J. (AP) — The pharmaceutical-industry entrepreneur vilified for jacking up the price of a life-saving drug was moved Tuesday to a low-security federal prison in New Jersey. Martin Shkreli was sent from the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center in New York to the Federal Correctional Institution at Fort Dix. Shkreli, who was dubbed “Pharma... Read More

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Martin Shkreli

April 20, 2018

Woman faces upgraded charges in Missouri officer’s death

CLINTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman accused of dealing drugs from a home where an ex-convict fatally shot one police officer and wounded two others is now charged with first-degree murder and, if convicted, she could be sentenced to death or a life in prison. Prosecutors announced Wednesday that the charge against 37-year-old Tammy... Read More

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Tammy Dee Widger

April 20, 2018

Lance Armstrong settles $100M lawsuit with US government

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lance Armstrong reached a $5 million settlement with the federal government in a whistleblower lawsuit that could have sought $100 million in damages from the cyclist who was stripped of his record seven Tour de France victories after admitting he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout much of his career. The deal announced... Read More

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Lance Armstrong

April 20, 2018

At trial, experts debate drug Cosby gave to his accuser

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — It’s long been one of the most enduring mysteries of Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case: What drug did he give his chief accuser on the night she says he molested her? Cosby has insisted he handed 1 ½ tablets of the over-the-counter cold and allergy medicine Benadryl to Andrea Constand to... Read More

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Bill Cosby

April 20, 2018

Woman who lost pink house, court case seeks box office win

WASHINGTON (AP) — Susette Kelo’s Supreme Court case now has a Hollywood ending, just not the one she hoped for. What Kelo wanted when she took her case to the high court more than a decade ago was to get to stay in her little pink house in New London, Connecticut. The city was trying... Read More

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Little Pink House, Susette Kelo

April 20, 2018

Judge to hear arguments about delaying Stormy Daniels case

LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lawyer is asking a federal judge in Los Angeles to delay a court case brought by a porn actress who claims she had an affair with the president. U.S. District Judge James Otero is set to hear arguments Friday morning about whether to delay Stormy Daniels’ case after... Read More

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Donald Trump, Stormy Daniels

April 20, 2018

Cosby lawyers want jurors to hear from accuser’s confidante

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby’s lawyers are scrambling to make sure jurors at his sexual assault retrial hear from accuser Andrea Constand’s confidante before deliberations get underway next week — but they’re having trouble getting the woman to cooperate. Sheri Williams isn’t responding to subpoena attempts, Cosby’s lawyers said. Now they’re seeking a judge’s... Read More

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Bill Cosby

April 19, 2018

Man admits setting 9 fires in his neighborhood, gets 2 years

FRANKLINTON, La. (AP) — A 44-year-old Louisiana man has admitted setting nine fires in his neighborhood — the last six on his own street. Authorities say he confessed while being interviewed about the last fire, which was set in a car outside his home. Prosecutors announced Wednesday that Herman Thomas of Bogalusa unexpectedly pleaded guilty... Read More

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Herman Thomas

April 19, 2018

California city sued over vote to opt out of ‘sanctuary’

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Residents sued the tiny Southern California city of Los Alamitos on Wednesday to challenge a vote by elected officials to exempt the community from a state law that limits police collaboration with U.S. immigration authorities. The American Civil Liberties Union and other immigrant rights advocates said the lawsuit was filed... Read More

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California, Sanctuary City

April 19, 2018

Ex-Playboy model settles lawsuit over alleged Trump affair

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Playboy model who said she had a 10-month affair with President Donald Trump settled her lawsuit Wednesday with a supermarket tabloid over an agreement that prohibited her from discussing the relationship publicly. Karen McDougal’s settlement with the company that owns the National Enquirer “restores to me the rights to... Read More

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Donald Trump, Karen McDougal

April 19, 2018

The Latest: Parents of 2 kids killed by nanny seek new law

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on a nanny convicted of stabbing two children to death in their home (all times local): 8:25 p.m. A man whose two small children were stabbed to death by their nanny at their New York home says he’d like to thank the judge and jurors at her murder trial,... Read More

Bad Parenting, Criminal Justice News, News

Yoselyn Ortega

April 19, 2018

Illusionist Copperfield takes stand in tourist injury case

LAS VEGAS (AP) — David Copperfield testified Wednesday that he didn’t know until he was sued that a British tourist claimed to have been seriously injured while taking part in an illusion during a performance on the Las Vegas Strip in 2013. Although Copperfield said it might be his fault if an audience volunteer who... Read More

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David Copperfield

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‘This is my family’: Where the travel ban debate hits home

Alabama mail-bomber the oldest executed in US modern times

‘Pharma Bro’ moves to New Jersey _ for federal prison stay

Woman faces upgraded charges in Missouri officer’s death

Lance Armstrong settles $100M lawsuit with US government

At trial, experts debate drug Cosby gave to his accuser

Woman who lost pink house, court case seeks box office win

Judge to hear arguments about delaying Stormy Daniels case

Cosby lawyers want jurors to hear from accuser’s confidante

Man admits setting 9 fires in his neighborhood, gets 2 years

California city sued over vote to opt out of ‘sanctuary’

Ex-Playboy model settles lawsuit over alleged Trump affair

The Latest: Parents of 2 kids killed by nanny seek new law

Illusionist Copperfield takes stand in tourist injury case

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