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Trump plans to attend the start of new E. Jean Carroll defamation damages trial

5:09am January 16, 2024

Former president Donald Trump is expected to be in a New York courtroom most of this week for a trial that will determine how much in damages is owed to writer E. Jean Carroll.

Washington's attorney general has sued to stop Kroger from merging with Albertsons and creating a grocery-store colossus. Here, a Kroger in Flowood, Mississippi operates a gas station and a pharmacy.

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Warning of higher grocery prices, Washington AG sues to stop Kroger-Albertsons merger

5:44pm January 15, 2024

by Alina Selyukh

"Shoppers will have fewer choices and less competition, and, without a competitive marketplace, they will pay higher prices at the grocery store," Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson said.

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Illinois has banned assault weapons, but many residents aren't complying

5:42pm January 15, 2024

by Alex Degman | WBEZ

It's now illegal to sell or manufacture assault weapons in Illinois after a ban went into effect Jan. 1. But the vast majority of permit-holding Illinois gun owners aren't complying with the new law.

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2 Virginia prison supervisors named in death of a disabled inmate in amended suit

5:36pm January 14, 2024

by Jaclyn Diaz

The new, amended lawsuit now includes Capt. Travis S. Poston and now-former Marion Warden Jeffery Artrip as defendants along with the five previously named prison officers.

Politics & Government

Trump's week in federal court

5:33pm January 13, 2024

by Domenico Montanaro

This week in federal court, we heard the full extent of Trump's vision of presidential immunity.

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Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were friendly with and traveled with Jeffrey Epstein during years when he allegedly victimized women. Both say they had no knowledge of Epstein's behavior. One alleged victim says Epstein's powerful acquaintances "had to be blind" not to know.

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Epstein papers leave questions about what powerful men knew about his crimes

7:00am January 13, 2024

by Brian Mann

Documents released by a federal court don't have any smoking guns or stunning revelations. They do include claims that people in Epstein's world "would have to be blind" not to know about his crimes.

Police secure an area around a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket where 10 people were killed in a shooting on May 14, 2022.

DOJ to seek death penalty for gunman in Buffalo supermarket mass shooting

2:38pm January 12, 2024

by Ryan Lucas

Federal prosecutors said Friday that they will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at the Tops supermarket in 2022.

Politics & Government

Closing arguments wrap up in the Trump civil fraud trial in New York

6:58am January 12, 2024

by Ximena Bustillo

Following Thursday's closing arguments, former President Donald Trump and his two eldest sons await the verdict, which is expected by the end of the month.

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South Africa charges Israel with genocide in Gaza. Israel defends itself at The Hague

5:10am January 12, 2024

Israel presents its rebuttal to the charge of genocide it faces in Gaza at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

eBay, a global e-commerce company based in San Jose, Calif., accepted responsibility for its former employees' actions in a 2019 harassment campaign, federal authorities said Thursday.

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eBay will pay a $3 million fine over former employees' harassment campaign

10:02pm January 11, 2024

by Emma Bowman

The penalty settles charges against eBay more than three years after then-employees sent spiders and cockroaches, among other things, to a couple over their newsletter's coverage of the company.