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National

A border strategy that gives more migrants a legal pathway to the U.S. to go on trial

6:11pm August 21, 2023

by Joel Rose

A key White House border strategy is going on trial. The U.S. has admitted tens of thousands of migrants under a legal authority known as parole. But critics say that's stretching the law too far.

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Texas has quietly changed its abortion law

6:11pm August 21, 2023

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

It will no longer be illegal to terminate a pregnancy in Texas if the pregnant person's water breaks too early for the fetus to survive.

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Illinois influencers under 16 will now be entitled to a portion of their earnings

5:32pm August 21, 2023

Illinois has passed legislation entitling child influencers under 16 to a portion of their earnings as parents and former child influencers have been talking about the dangers of growing up online.

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A business owner was fatally shot Friday after someone allegedly took issue with a Pride flag she had displayed at her clothing store in Cedar Glen, Calif. Here, a Progress Pride Flag is held above a crowd of LGBTQ+ activists in West Hollywood, Calif., in April 2023.

National

A California store owner was shot and killed over a Pride flag displayed at her shop

6:24pm August 20, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

Sheriff's deputies said the suspect was later killed in "a lethal force encounter" with authorities. Tributes continue to pour in honoring the victim, Lauri Carleton.

National

GOP state legislatures target progressive prosecutors

4:56pm August 20, 2023

by Pien Huang

A wave of progressive prosecutors have won office across the country. Now, Republican-controlled state legislatures and governors are trying to curtail their power, or strip them of it altogether.

National

Rudy Guiliani is among the 19 other defendants in Trump's racketeering indictment

8:05am August 20, 2023

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Ken White, a former federal prosecutor who now works as a criminal defense attorney, about the racketeering indictment against Rudy Giuliani.

Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy are seen in New Orleans in 2013. Michael Oher, the former NFL tackle whose story inspired the movie The Blind Side, on Monday filed a petition accusing the Tuohys of lying to him by having him sign papers making them his conservators rather than his adoptive parents nearly two decades ago.

After 19 years, the Tuohys say they plan to terminate Michael Oher's conservatorship

5:42pm August 18, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

Lawyers for Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy say the couple intends to end their conservatorship for Oher, a former NFL offensive lineman and the inspiration behind the 2009 film, The Blind Side.

A sheriff's deputy stands guard near the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Monday. Authorities in Georgia said Thursday they're investigating threats targeting members of the grand jury that indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies.

Threats, slurs and menace: Far-right websites target Fulton County grand jurors

5:26pm August 18, 2023

Some far-right websites are circulating addresses supposedly of grand jurors involved in the Fulton County indictment of former President Donald Trump. Their calls for violence are causing alarm.

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Lawyers say they expect former President Donald Trump to wade into commentary, and personal attacks, on people involved in bringing him to justice across four separate criminal indictments in four different jurisdictions.

Politics & Government

Trump tests the tolerance of judges and even his own lawyers

12:40pm August 18, 2023

by Carrie Johnson

Former President Donald Trump's rhetoric could be setting him up for an ugly clash with judges overseeing the criminal cases against him.

OpenAI is facing lawsuits over copyrighted materials it uses to train ChatGPT

8:26am August 18, 2023

AI tools like ChatGPT scrape millions of pages from the internet. Pages such as news articles, books, Wikipedia pages and blog posts. But is it legal?

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