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Florida businesses could be required to verify employees have legal work permits

8:02am May 14, 2023

by Talia Blake

Florida businesses could soon be required to use the E-Verify system for their employees to make sure people have legal work permits. There's fear the move could hurt labor intensive industries.

In 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled split-jury verdicts unconstitutional. Since then, Oregon and Louisiana have gone in opposite directions in deciding how to approach past convictions.

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The Supreme Court outlawed split juries, but hundreds remain in prison anyway

6:00am May 14, 2023

by Jason Breslow

In 2020, the Supreme Court struck down laws that allowed people in Louisiana and Oregon to be convicted even if two jurors voted not guilty. Despite the ruling, some of them may never get a new trial.

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Minneapolis, state of Minnesota reach policing overhaul agreement

5:22pm May 13, 2023

by Jon Collins

Nearly three years after the murder of George Floyd, Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota say a negotiated agreement will change how Minneapolis police operate.

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A screenshot taken from Google Street View shows the gas station parking lot in Dallas where Gabriella Gonzalez was fatally shot the morning after she'd gotten an abortion in Colorado.

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A Texas woman was killed by her boyfriend after getting an abortion, police say

12:38pm May 13, 2023

by Emily Olson

Harold Thompson is facing murder charges in connection with the death of Gabriella Gonzalez. Dallas police say he fatally shot his girlfriend the day after she'd traveled to Colorado for an abortion.

Arts

The 'More Perfect' podcast examines the Supreme Court

5:44pm May 12, 2023

Julia Longoria, host of the Supreme Court podcast "More Perfect," talks about the launch of their new season.

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Lori Vallow Daybell listens as the jury's verdict is read at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, on Friday. The jury convicted Daybell of murder in the deaths of her two youngest children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival.

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Jury finds Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of murdering 2 of her children

4:12pm May 12, 2023

by Bill Chappell

A jury in Boise, Idaho, found Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of murdering two of her children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival. Vallow Daybell, 49, could face life in prison.

Daniel Penny, center, is escorted by police after turning himself in for manslaughter charges in the death of Jordan Neely.

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Daniel Penny is charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Jordan Neely

3:49pm May 12, 2023

by Jaclyn Diaz

The former U.S. Marine, 24, was videotaped putting Neely in a chokehold on the NYC subway on May 1. He surrendered to police ahead of his arraignment on Friday and was released on $100,000 bail.

Inspiration or theft? The rise of interpolation in the music industry

4:29pm May 11, 2023

by Ann Powers

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with NPR music critic Ann Powers on the rise of interpolation in the increasingly litigious music industry and the line between nostalgia and theft.

A former Virginia Department of Corrections employee donated hundreds of execution documents, including these photographs, to the Library of Virginia more than a decade ago. NPR is now exclusively publishing a selection of the documents.

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Virginia hid execution files from the public. Here's what they don't want you to see

1:32pm May 11, 2023

by Chiara Eisner

In January, the Virginia Department of Corrections restricted public access to execution records. NPR is now publishing a selection of those secret files.

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Politics & Government

Rep. George Santos of New York calls federal fraud charges a witch hunt

6:05am May 11, 2023

Santos was charged with 13 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds. Prosecutors say he schemed to defraud donors when he allegedly used the money to pay for personal expenses.

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