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After a tragedy, a mother wants to soften the rooms where police interview victims

4:40pm July 11, 2024

by Jaclyn Diaz

Tracy Matheson's organization is funding makeovers of rooms that police use to interview sexual assault victims. The project was inspired by the violent death of Matheson's daughter.

Former President Donald Trump Holds A Campaign Rally In Doral, Florida

The ACLU has a blueprint to constrain Trump in a second presidential term

2:48pm July 11, 2024

by Carrie Johnson

The American Civil Liberties Union is developing a legal strategy to counter former President Donald Trump in the event he returns to the White House.

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Testimony is underway in Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' trial

11:21am July 11, 2024

After opening arguments on Wednesday, testimony will continue this week in the involuntary manslaughter case against the actor.

'Madoff' takes account of the biggest financial Ponzi scheme in history

4:40pm July 10, 2024

by Terry Gross

Disgraced financier Bernie Madoff scammed investors out of approximately $68 billion. Journalist Richard Behar spoke to Madoff in prison more than 50 times for his book, Madoff: The Final Word.

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Unmarked cars and secret orders: How a pharmacy prepared drugs for Texas’ executions

4:20pm July 10, 2024

by Chiara Eisner

NPR identified the company that provided Texas with execution drugs and uncovered that state and federal authorities alleged the pharmacy and some of its owners violated laws meant to protect patients.

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Jury to hear opening statements in Alec Baldwin's criminal trial

2:00pm July 10, 2024

by Mandalit del Barco

A judge in Santa Fe, N.M., has sworn in a panel of jurors. Baldwin is charged with involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 death of a cinematographer on the set of his film “Rust.”

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She was the target of an Iranian assassination plot. She now lives in its shadow

12:22pm July 10, 2024

by Ryan Lucas

In 2022, a hitman was allegedly hired as part of a plot hatched in Iran to assassinate Masih Alinejad, a critic of the Iranian regime, in New York. Threats continue to turn her life upside down.

Alec Baldwin is on trial for involuntary manslaughter

10:59am July 10, 2024

by Mandalit del Barco

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed in 2021 when a prop gun went off on the western film Rust set. Alec Baldwin is charged with involuntary manslaughter and faces up to 18 months behind bars.

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Federal judge resigns after investigation uncovers abusive conduct

10:10pm July 09, 2024

A federal judge in Alaska resigns after investigators conclude he created a hostile environment for law clerks and had an inappropriate relationship with one of them.

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Alaska lawyer Joshua Kindred speaks during a judicial nomination hearing at the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary in 2019

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Alaska federal judge resigns after investigators say he created a hostile workplace

10:10pm July 09, 2024

by Carrie Johnson

Judge Joshua Kindred, a Trump appointee, resigned after investigators concluded he sent crude messages to employees, engaged in sexual contact with a former law clerk and lied to colleagues about it.

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