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What happens if Trump can't pay the $454 million bond in his New York fraud case?

5:12am March 20, 2024

Donald Trump has until next Monday to pay the bond in the civil fraud case. NPR's Michel Martin talks to Adam Pollock, an ex-New York assistant attorney general, about what happens if he doesn't pay.

Morning news brief

5:12am March 20, 2024

Controversial Texas border law is on hold again. Sentencings begins for six ex-Miss. officers who pleaded guilty to torturing two Black men. Trump-endorsed Senate candidate wins Ohio's GOP primary.

National

2 ex-officers in Mississippi get yearslong sentences for torturing 2 Black men

5:12am March 20, 2024

The sentencing phase has begun for the six former officers who pleaded guilty to torturing two Black men. Two ex-officers were sentenced Tuesday and the four others will be sentenced this week.

National

Supreme Court allows Texas' controversial immigration law to go into effect

6:41pm March 19, 2024

by Julian Aguilar

The U.S. Supreme Court, for now, is allowing Texas to implement its immigration law, known as SB4, that permits local and state police to arrest people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.

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Hong Kong's new national security law might further erode civil liberties, some worry

4:56pm March 19, 2024

by John Ruwitch

Lawmakers in Hong Kong passed a new national security law. The government casts it as a bid to make the territory safer but some think it may erode Hong Kong's standing as a global financial hub.

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Female genital mutilation is illegal in The Gambia. But maybe not for much longer

4:56pm March 19, 2024

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jaha Dukureh, the founder of Safe Hands for Girls, a Gambian group that aims to end female genital mutilation. Lawmakers there advanced a bill that would end its FGM ban.

Trump has been ordered to pay a half-billion-dollar bond. What happens if he can't?

4:33pm March 19, 2024

by Andrea Bernstein

Former President Trump needs to find $454 million to comply with a New York ruling but says he can't find a company to put up the bond. His lawyers are asking an appeals court to stay the judgment.

A memorial to the 10 victims of the racist shooting at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo. Two tech companies must face a lawsuit alleging that their algorithms played a role in radicalizing the shooter, a judge ruled Monday.

National

Reddit and YouTube must face a lawsuit over the radicalization of the Buffalo shooter

3:51pm March 19, 2024

by Becky Sullivan

The sites' algorithms served the 18-year-old with increasingly extremist content and led to the attack, the suit claims. On Monday, a judge rejected the companies' request to have the suit dismissed.

National

Ga. inmate seeks clemency to avoid state's first execution in more than 4 years

5:15am March 19, 2024

by Chamian Cruz

The Georgia parole board will hear an appeal from a death row inmate scheduled to die by lethal injection on Wednesday. Advocates say he is intellectually challenged and should not be executed.

The share of abortions that are performed with medication alone (a combination of mifepristone and misoprosotol) increased between 2020 and 2023.

Health & Safety

Despite bans in some states, more than a million abortions were provided in 2023

12:02am March 19, 2024

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

That's the highest number in more than a decade, according to new research. Medication abortion made up a larger share of the total than in 2020.