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Jayland Walker (right) with his former wrestling coach Robert Hubbard in February 2020.

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Jayland Walker's wrestling coach remembers 'one of the sweetest kids'

3:50pm July 07, 2022

Youth wrestling coach Robert Hubbard remembers his former student, Jayland Walker, the Black motorist who was shot dozens of times and killed by Akron police on June 27.

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Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani walks into federal court in San Jose, Calif. on June 24, 2022.

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Former Theranos executive Ramesh Balwani is convicted of fraud

3:26pm July 07, 2022

by The Associated Press

The jurors found Balwani guilty on all 12 counts of defrauding both Theranos investors and the patients.

How the Supreme Court's move to the right could further transform life in the U.S.

2:34pm July 07, 2022

by Terry Gross

The court's super majority of conservative judges has already passed down rulings about abortion and the 2nd Amendment. New York Times journalist Adam Liptak says more legal upheavals are likely.

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Attorneys representing Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that he intends to challenge a subpoena compelling him to testify before a special grand jury in Georgia investigating former President Donald Trump and his allies' actions after the 2020 election.

Politics & Government

Lindsey Graham will fight Georgia 2020 election subpoena, his lawyers say

11:01pm July 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

Graham's attorneys slammed the investigation into former President Donald Trump and his allies' actions in Georgia after the 2020 election as being coordinated with the Jan. 6 committee.

People visit a memorial at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on June 2, 2022, to pay their respects to the victims killed in a school shooting.

Uvalde shooting victims are not getting funds fast enough, local officials say

7:01pm July 06, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez and Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin say they've received complaints about the Uvalde Together Resiliency Center.

Demonstrators hold up signs outside the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals building in New Orleans on Wednesday as a panel of judges heard arguments on the Obama-era program that prevents the deportation of thousands of immigrants brought into the U.S. as

Appeals court hears arguments over GOP-leaning states' suit to end DACA

5:55pm July 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

A federal judge in Texas last year declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program dead but left it intact while his order is appealed by the Justice Department and advocacy groups.

The Energy Fuels uranium mill and waste cells at White Mesa, Utah.

A U.S. uranium mill is near this tribe. A study may reveal if it poses a health risk

1:00pm July 06, 2022

by Lucas Brady Woods

The Utah mill has long concerned a tribal community next door. They hope a new health study will answer their questions. "A lot of our people mysteriously started getting sick," a tribal member says.

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Some states want a fetus to be considered a person. Defining those rights is tough

8:13am July 06, 2022

NPR's A Martinez talks with Carliss Chatman, a law professor at Washington and Lee School of Law, about fetus personhood laws as a new frontier in legal battles over reproductive rights.

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News brief: Ill. shooting probe, Georgia subpoenas, U.K. government resignations

6:39am July 06, 2022

The Highland Park shooting suspect is charged with seven counts of first-degree murder. A Georgia grand jury subpoenas top Trump allies. Two key U.K. senior ministers quit Boris Johnson's government.

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Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, a former Georgia election worker, becomes emotional while testifying about how being singled out in false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump has ruined her life.

The Jan. 6 panel announces its next hearing. Here's what we know from them so far

6:22pm July 05, 2022

by Domenico Montanaro

The next hearing will be July 12 at 10 a.m. ET, according to a notice posted by the committee. It will focus on the rioters and mob who stormed the Capitol.