A federal grand jury has indicted a Minnesota man accused of threatening to kill a U.S. senator. Brendon Daugherty is being held in the Sherburne County Jail, in Elk River, Minn., on charges of threatening to murder a U.S. official and interstate transmission of a threat. He is to appear …
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September, 2022
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14 September
Baltimore prosecutors move to vacate murder conviction of “Serial” podcast subject Adnan Syed
Baltimore officials said Wednesday that they have filed a motion to vacate the conviction of Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular podcast “Serial” who was convicted in February 2000 for murdering his ex-girlfriend. Officials on Wednesday requested another trial and said new evidence — including the existence of two …
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13 September
“No locks on the doors”: Twitter whistleblower tells Senate of security gaps
Twitter’s former security chief painted the social media company as a data-grabbing behemoth that risks exploitation by “teenagers, thieves and spies” in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. “Twitter leadership is misleading the public, lawmakers, regulators and even its own board of directors,” Peiter Zatko said in his …
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9 September
Oberlin College to pay $37 million to local bakery after students alleged racism
Ohio’s Oberlin College on Thursday said it will pay nearly $37 million to a local bakery that sued the school for libel following a 2016 shoplifting incident involving three Black students. The Ohio Supreme Court last month declined to hear Oberlin’s appeal of a lower-court ruling ordering the college to pay …
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2 September
Person detained in connection to elementary school teacher’s abduction in Memphis, Tennessee, officials say
A vehicle wanted in connection with the abduction of a woman has been found and a person detained, the Memphis Police Department reported Saturday. Authorities are still searching for the woman a day after she was allegedly kidnapped while jogging in Memphis early Friday morning. Eliza Fletcher, 34, was running …
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1 September
CVS Health fires nurse over her anti
A nurse practitioner from northern Virginia is suing CVS Health, alleging she was fired for refusing to provide abortion-inducing drugs at the retailer’s MinuteClinic medical facilities. Paige Casey is asking for $100,000 in damages, including back pay, according to the suit, which was filed Wednesday in Prince William County Circuit …
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1 September
Trump settles with House Oversight Democrats in dispute over financial records subpoena
Washington — Former President Donald Trump has reached a settlement with Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee and his accounting firm, Mazars, in a lengthy court battle over a 2019 subpoena for years of his financial records, according to a court filing Wednesday. Lawyers for the former president …
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August, 2022
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26 August
Secret Service returns $268 million in fraudulently obtained COVID
The Secret Service has returned about $286 million in wrongfully obtained COVID-relief loans to the Small Business Administration, the agency announced Friday. The federal small business loan program was set up to help small businesses recover from the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic impacts. Conspirators fraudulently obtained Economic Injury Disaster Loans with …
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24 August
After car crash, Illinois woman’s ambulance bill was 3 times higher than siblings’ despite identical services
Last September, Peggy Dula was driving with her brother and sister when their car collided with a pickup truck. The Illinois resident, who recalled the crash and its aftermath on “CBS Mornings,” said that she and her siblings were each transported separately from the site of the accident to the …
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23 August
Breonna Taylor case: Former Louisville cop Kelly Goodlett pleads guilty to federal conspiracy charge
A former Louisville police detective who helped write the warrant that led to the deadly police raid at Breonna Taylor‘s apartment has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge. Federal investigators said Kelly Goodlett added a false line to the warrant and later conspired with another detective to create a …
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