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Justice Department authorizes firing squads, restores lethal injection drug in federal execution overhaul

The Justice Department announced Friday that it will permit firing squads as a method of carrying out federal executions and will restore the single-drug lethal injection protocol that the Biden administration dismantled in its final days, a sweeping policy shift…
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Leaked emails reveal Pima County Sheriff's Department courted TV crew in months before Nancy Guthrie vanished

More than 220 pages of internal emails show the Pima County Sheriff's Department gave a reality television production company extraordinary access to deputies, bodycam footage, and active operations in the months before 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson home,…
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DOJ hits Southern Poverty Law Center with 11-count indictment alleging fraud and secret payments to extremists

The Justice Department charged the Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday with an 11-count federal indictment, accusing the storied civil-rights nonprofit of secretly funneling more than $3 million to individuals tied to the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations, and…
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Body of missing USF doctoral student Zamil Limon found on Tampa bridge as roommate faces murder charges

Authorities in Hillsborough County, Florida, found the body of missing University of South Florida doctoral student Zamil Limon on the Howard Frankland Bridge on Friday morning, and within hours, his roommate was in custody facing charges that have since been…
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Seattle mayor draws backlash after taking motorist lane for new bus project on Denny Way

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson stood at a press conference Wednesday and announced a plan to strip a traffic lane from one of the city's busiest corridors, and hand it to buses. The Denny Way Bus Reliability Project, as the city…
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Rep. Tom Kean Jr. vanishes from Congress for over a month, leaving GOP colleagues in the dark

Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. of New Jersey has not cast a single vote on the House floor since March 5, and even his fellow Republican lawmakers say they cannot reach him or explain where he has been. The congressman,…
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D.C. Circuit judges appointed by Democrats strike down Trump asylum restrictions in split ruling

Two judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit have struck down President Donald Trump's border restrictions against asylum seekers in a split opinion that now heads toward the Supreme Court, and that leaves the…
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Four Republican senators side with Democrats to block SAVE America Act from budget package

Four Republican senators broke ranks and voted against Sen. John Kennedy's effort to attach the core elements of the SAVE America Act to the Senate's budget reconciliation package, sinking a maneuver that would have let the election-integrity measure pass with…
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Former beauty queen shot dead in Mexico City apartment as authorities seek her mother-in-law

Carolina Flores Gomez, a 27-year-old former beauty queen and new mother, was fatally shot 12 times inside her Mexico City apartment on April 15, and prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for her 63-year-old mother-in-law, Erika Herrera, who remains at…
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Kristi Noem still occupying Coast Guard residence weeks after losing DHS post

More than six weeks after President Donald Trump removed her as Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem is still living in a waterfront military home on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., a residence typically reserved for the Coast Guard commandant.…
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