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The trial for the Parkland high school shooting begins

4:50pm July 18, 2022

by Greg Allen

The trial began Monday for the admitted gunman of the 2018 attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead and 17 others injured. He faces the death penalty or life in prison.

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The first post-Roe vote on abortion rights will be held in Kansas on Aug. 2

6:52am July 18, 2022

by Frank Morris

A proposed state constitutional amendment would end abortion rights protections that have made Kansas a destination for people seeking abortions from nearby states.

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News brief: Uvalde shooting report, Bannon trial, Ukrainian government firings

6:26am July 18, 2022

A Texas House report issues blame for failures in Uvalde. Steve Bannon goes on trial Monday for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 panel. Ukraine's president fires two top officials.

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Steve Bannon, who was chief strategist for former President Donald Trump, appears on a video screen above members of the House committee that's investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, during a hearing on July 12.

Steve Bannon goes on trial for defying Jan. 6 panel subpoena

5:00am July 18, 2022

by Ryan Lucas

The former Trump adviser faces two counts of contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

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At sentencing, Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz faces the death penalty

5:00am July 18, 2022

by Greg Allen

In a Florida court Monday, lawyers for Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, will ask a jury to spare his life. He already pleaded guilty to the murders.

Suzanne Devine Clark, an art teacher at Deerfield Beach Elementary School, adds to a memorial outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the one-year anniversary of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. The gunman goes on trial on Monday.

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The Parkland school shooter faces the death penalty as his trial begins

9:48am July 17, 2022

by Emma Bowman

Opening statements begin on Monday. A jury faces two options to punish the person responsible for killing 17 people in 2018: life in prison or the death penalty.

Muhammad Aziz stands outside the courthouse in New York after his conviction in the killing of Malcolm X was vacated on Nov. 18, 2021.

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A man exonerated in the killing of Malcolm X is suing New York City for $40 million

11:56am July 16, 2022

by The Associated Press

Muhammad Aziz, 84, who was exonerated last year in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader, has filed a federal lawsuit against the city for the two decades he spent in prison.

This image released by the FBI shows the wanted poster for Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985. Caro Quintero has been captured by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison, an official c

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Mexico captures an infamous drug lord who killed a DEA agent

5:33pm July 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

Rafael Caro Quintero has been captured by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a prison and returning to drug trafficking, an official confirmed.

The lowrider community wants all of California to join San Jose and end cruising bans

4:49pm July 15, 2022

by Mary Franklin Harvin

There's a push to end bans on lowrider cruising across California. The lowrider community says these bans criminalize harmless recreational activity and disproportionately affect Latinos.

John Fetterman's back on the Senate campaign trail. The end of Roe has changed things

4:42pm July 15, 2022

by Don Gonyea

Pennsylvania's Senate race has changed on the Democratic side. John Fetterman was sidelined after a stroke, the Supreme Court overturned Roe and the Jan. 6 hearings affected voters' perceptions.