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The American husband of a Chinese woman who has been missing since October was charged this week with first-degree murder in her death, even though her body hasn’t been found. Joseph Elledge, of Columbia, Missouri, was charged with first-degree murder ...

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Missouri lawmakers this week advanced a bill to give more options for prosecuting people for carjackings, a move praised by some as a way to combat an uptick in violent crime and criticized by others as too expansive and harsh. ...

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Bernie Sanders says he doesn’t plan to divulge additional information about his health, months after suffering a heart attack on the campaign trail and offering a subsequent pledge to release “comprehensive” medical records. “I think we have released a detailed ...

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California should lower the legal bar for providing forced treatment to the mentally ill and building more homeless shelters, Gov. Gavin Newsom said this week in his second State of the State address. He took the unusual step of devoting ...

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Florida cannot, for now, bar felons who served their time from registering to vote simply because they have failed to pay all fines and fees stemming from their cases, a federal appeals court ruled this week. A three-judge panel of ...

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It was the obvious question after news broke that a 50-year-old charged with forcing college students into prostitution met some of them while living with his daughter in campus housing. How could a father — an ex-convict, no less — ...

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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, filed for bankruptcy this week, six months after disclosing it had paid millions of dollars to people sexually abused as children by its clerics. The diocese joins at least 20 others across the ...

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Students alarmed by climate change are stepping up pressure on universities to pull investments from fossil fuel industries, an effort that is gaining traction at prestigious schools like Georgetown, Harvard and Yale. The push that is underway at hundreds of ...

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A Florida woman who got clemency from President Donald Trump while serving prison time for a $205 million Medicare fraud scam said her case was brought to Trump’s attention by a woman who herself got clemency at the urging of ...

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Like millions of other Americans the 1950s and ’60s, Duane Ruth-Heffelbower spent his formative years learning to tie knots, build campfires and pitch tents with the Boy Scouts, whose wholesome, God-fearing reputation was burnished by Normal Rockwell’s magazine-cover paintings of ...

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Former Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich gushed about Donald Trump after the Republican president commuted his sentence for political corruption, speaking Wednesday at a press event outside his Chicago home that sounded like an extended campaign ad for the president. ...

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