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Sat Feb 3 2024

US strikes targets in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for deadly drone attack

DOVER, DELAWARE - FEBRUARY 02: U.S. President Joe Biden pays his respects as a U.S. Army carry team moves a flagged draped transfer case containing the remains of Army Sgt. Breonna Moffett during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base on February 02, 2024 in Dover, Delaware. U.S. Army Sgt. William Rivers, Sgt. Breonna Moffett, Sgt. Kennedy Sanders were killed in addition to 40 others troops were injured during a drone strike in Jordan. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

President Biden held Iran responsible for the Jan. 28 drone attack on a base in Jordan near the Syria border. The US response was aimed at targets in Iraq and Syria.

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Former US President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower for Manhattan federal court to attend his defamation trial in New York on January 26, 2024. Lawyers in the trial are expected to give their closing arguments. Writer E. Jean Carroll is seeking more than $10 million in damages for defamation by Trump in a federal court in New York, which has the power only to impose a civil penalty, not a criminal conviction.

Trump's federal election-fraud trial postponed pending decision on immunity

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan tentatively set a trial date, but canceled it while waiting for higher courts to decide whether Trump is immune.

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ATLANTA, GEORGIA - NOVEMBER 21: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appears before Judge Scott McAfee for a hearing in the 2020 Georgia election interference case at the Fulton County Courthouse on November 21, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Judge McAfee heard arguments as to whether co-defendant Harrison Floyd should be sent to jail for social media posts and comments that potentially targeted witnesses in the trial. McAfee declined to revoke Floyd's bond. Floyd was charged along with former US President Donald Trump and 17 others in an indictment that accuses them of illegally conspiring to subvert the will of Georgia voters in the 2020 presidential election. (Photo by Dennis Byron-Pool/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 776066955 ORIG FILE ID: 1795065164

Fani Willis admits affair with prosecutor in Trump election case

The Atlanta prosecutor had been dogged by allegations of an improper affair with attorney Nathan Wade, whom she hired to lead the Trump election case.

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'College Bishop Sycamore'? California team faces disturbing allegations

No athletic trainer at practice. Overcrowded housing. Players on food stamps. At Lincoln University in Oakland, is college football crossing a line?

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'Rocky' star Carl Weathers dies at 76

Carl Weathers, the actor who played Apollo Creed in the "Rocky" films and starred on "The Mandalorian," has died. He was 76.

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Jennifer Crumbley enters the courtroom of Oakland County Judge Cheryl Matthews on Thursday Jan. 25, 2024 to begin her trial in Pontiac, Mich. Crumbley, 45, is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the Nov. 30, 2021, attack. The case against her and her husband, who will stand trial in March, marks the first time that a parent has been charged in a mass shooting at a U.S. school. Prosecutors say the Crumbleys were grossly negligent and that their son's actions were foreseeable.

Jury to decide whether mom of school shooter is responsible

The testimony of a mass shooter's mother is not only essential in her trial, but also for the rest of the nation in a case that raises many questions.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 30: Joe Madison passes away at 74. This picture is Madison as the SiriusXM honor host, speaking on stage as SiriusXM and The Smithsonian's National Museum Of African American History.

Joe Madison, a legendary radio host and civil rights activist dead at 74

Radio personality and civil rights advocate Joe Madison, known as The Black Eagle, has died at age 74. He spent years working with the NAACP.

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Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade (left), representing the District Attorney's office, talks with Attorney Scott Grubman, who is defending Ken Chesebro, and other attorneys after Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee heard motions from attorneys representing Ken Chesebro and Sidney Powell in Atlanta on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023.

Did Trump Georgia prosecutor Nathan Wade mishandle prior investigation?

Wade has been criticized for his investigation of prisoner deaths at a notorious jail complex.

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Nov 7, 2023; Columbus, Ohio, US; Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost speaks with the press at the Issue One watch party hosted by Protect Women Ohio at the Center for Christian Virtue in Downtown Columbus, Ohio.

Ohio AG says part of abortion ban could still be constitutional

All aspects of Ohio's ban on most abortions might not need to be tossed out even though voters approved language protecting abortion access, Yost said.

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Bob Weir, at front, and Mickey Hart of Dead and Company performing at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Sept. 17, 2021. Dead Company 01396

Dead & Company will play May-July residency at The Sphere in Las Vegas

Dead & Company, which includes Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, and John Mayer, will play a Las Vegas concert residency at The Sphere.

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