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The Justice Department also announced the indictments of six VW executives. Volkswagen has admitted equipping diesel vehicles with software to cheat emissions tests and then lying to regulators.

McDonald was just 29 when he was rendered quadriplegic by a teenage gunman. Months later, McDonald penned a letter of forgiveness that turned him into an ambassador for New York's police force.

Federal prosecutors say they will try again to convince a jury that Baca was responsible for a wide-ranging conspiracy to cover up reports of prisoner abuse and thwart investigators.

Many of the questions during Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing for attorney general centered on whether he would stand up to the president-elect's more controversial stances.

Dylann Roof, 22, murdered nine people in the basement of a historically black church in Charleston, S.C. He told the jury that prosecutors "don't know what real real hatred looks like."

Volkswagen announced Tuesday it is in advanced talks with the Justice Department on a settlement agreement to end a criminal probe into its diesel cheating scheme. The company said it would pay civil and criminal fines of $4.3 billion.

Prosecutors and Dylann Roof gave closing arguments before a federal jury Tuesday in Charleston, S.C. Jurors are deciding whether Roof should receive the death penalty for killing nine people at a church in 2015.