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Parents of 9 service members killed in training accident are still want answers

4:41pm March 02, 2022

by Steve Walsh

Military hearings are underway in the drowning of eight Marines and a sailor in July 2020. They died off the coast of California in a training exercise gone wrong.

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Prosecutors opened arguments in the 1st trial tied to the Jan. 6 insurrection

4:41pm March 02, 2022

by Carrie Johnson

Opening arguments were today in the first jury trial related to the Jan. 6 insurrection. A lawyer for defendant Guy Reffitt says he's simply a big talker.

Children were detained in Moscow on Tuesday, after trying to leave flowers at Ukraine's embassy. They were carrying signs that read, "No to War."

World News

Russian police jail kids who took flowers and 'No to War' signs to Ukraine's embassy

12:29pm March 02, 2022

by Bill Chappell

The children were still clutching their flowers as they sat in custody. Police reportedly threatened mothers with losing their parental rights.

The ACLU of Texas argues that Gov. Greg Abbott's instructions to investigate parents of transgender adolescents were issued without proper authority, in violation of a Texas law and the state constitution and violate the constitutional rights of transgend

The ACLU sues to block Texas from investigating parents of trans youth

10:25pm March 01, 2022

by Vanessa Romo

The lawsuit says at least one family is already under investigation for providing their child with medically necessary gender-affirming care.

Jury selection is underway in the first trial stemming from the Jan. 6 insurrection

7:30am March 01, 2022

by Tom Dreisbach

Prosecutors say Guy Reffitt brought a gun to the Capitol grounds, and that he later threatened his children if they turned him in. Reffitt is fighting the charges.

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Finding errors in student-loan payback plans.

When colleges defraud students, should the government go after school executives?

7:04am March 01, 2022

by Cory Turner

For 30 years, the U.S. Department of Education has had the power to hold for-profit college executives personally liable when their schools defraud students. It simply hasn't used it.

Law enforcement vehicles from several agencies block a street near the scene of a shooting in Sacramento, Calif., on Monday.

National

Man kills 3 children, 1 other and himself at California church

11:28pm February 28, 2022

by The Associated Press

The shootings took place at a Sacramento-area church, according to local law enforcement officials.

National

The 1st trial connected to the assault on the Capitol has begun

4:57pm February 28, 2022

by Carrie Johnson

Jury selection is underway in the first prosecution related to Jan. 6 to go to trial. Defendant Guy Reffitt has pleaded not guilty. The trial could help set the course for hundreds of other cases.

The U.S. government says in its affidavit that this photo shows Guy Reffitt rinsing his eyes outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, wearing a blue jacket over a tactical vest and a helmet with a camera.

Politics & Government

1st trial of a U.S. Capitol riot defendant opens Monday in D.C.

12:11pm February 28, 2022

by Ryan Lucas

The trial, at a courthouse just down the street from the site of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, is a milestone in the Capitol riot investigation.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

Supreme Court to hear a case that could limit the EPA's power to fight climate change

11:39am February 28, 2022

The outcome of the case could also hamstring the authority of all agencies, from the EPA to the Securities and Exchange Commission to Federal Reserve Board.

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