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Roe v. Wade has been overturned but the annual March for Life continues

7:27am January 20, 2023

Just ahead of the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, abortion rights opponents will hold a March for Life Friday in Washington, D.C., and celebrate the overturning of the landmark court ruling.

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A San Francisco art gallery owner who was seen on video spraying water on a homeless woman with a hose has been arrested, according to authorities. Here, San Francisco police cars sit parked in front of the Hall of Justice on February 27, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif.

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A San Francisco business owner is arrested after spraying homeless woman with a hose

8:01pm January 19, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

If convicted, 71-year-old Collier Gwin could face up to six months in county jail and a $2,000 fine, officials say. The case remains under investigation.

Prosecutors in Santa Fe, N.M., have announced involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin in connection with the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021.

Alec Baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in 'Rust' shooting death

7:29pm January 19, 2023

by Bill Chappell

Prosecutors announced charges against Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the film Rust. Baldwin was rehearsing a scene when cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed.

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SCOTUS says it was unable to find who leaked the draft decision overturning 'Roe'

5:42pm January 19, 2023

by Nina Totenberg

The Supreme Court says it is unable so far to conclude who leaked the Dobbs decision last summer. This comes after an eight-month probe conducted by the court's marshal and an investigative team.

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The Marshal of the Supreme Court is unable to identify a person who leaked the Dobbs decision, according to a Supreme Court release Thursday.

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Supreme Court is unable to ID the leaker in Dobbs decision

5:25pm January 19, 2023

by Nina Totenberg

The court called the leak "one of the worst breaches of trust in its history." The Marshal of the Supreme Court "has to date been unable to identify a person responsible," the court said Thursday.

Wilbert Lee Evans (left) and Alton Waye were executed in 1990 and 1989. NPR obtained tapes that recorded their deaths. You can hear them below.

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NPR uncovered secret execution tapes from Virginia. More remain hidden

4:40pm January 19, 2023

by Chiara Eisner

Four tapes mysteriously donated to a library reveal uncertainty behind the scenes of the death chamber — and indicate the prison neglected to record evidence during an execution gone wrong.

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The State Department launches a new way for ordinary Americans to resettle refugees

1:17pm January 19, 2023

by Joel Rose

With refugee resettlement organizations stretched thin, the U.S. is trying a different approach. The new private sponsorship program will allow groups of regular people to sponsor refugees.

Adult film star Ron Jeremy listens as his attorney Stuart Goldfarb speaks during his arraignment on rape and sexual assault charges at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles on June 26, 2020.

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Ron Jeremy's accusers are disappointed the former porn star won't go to trial

5:04am January 19, 2023

by Joe Hernandez

A judge declared the former porn icon incompetent to stand trial, putting the sexual assault case against 69-year-old Jeremy on hold.

A rural road near Connelly Springs, N.C., where people who've come from the Marshall Islands — many to work in nearby poultry plants — have built a church community, the Marshallese New Beginnings Church.

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In some states, an unpaid foster care bill could mean parents lose their kids forever

5:00am January 19, 2023

by Joseph Shapiro

Some states allow children to be removed from their parents if they fail to pay the cost of foster care. But that can be hundreds of dollars a month, and it's often the poorest families who must pay.

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Brian Walshe, center, listens during his arraignment Wednesday at Quincy District Court, in Quincy, Mass., on a charge of murdering his wife Ana Walshe.

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The husband of a missing woman sought info on dismembering a body, prosecutors say

1:43pm January 18, 2023

by The Associated Press

At a hearing, lawyers said that in the days after his wife's disappearance, Brian Walshe did searches on "dismemberment and best ways to dispose of a body" and "hacksaw best tool to dismember."