Judge tosses out Illinois ban that drafts legislative candidates as ‘restriction on right to vote’
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Continue Reading Gilgo Beach killings suspect expected to be indicted in killings of 2 additional women, sources say
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Continue Reading A Colorado woman who was handcuffed in a police car hit by a train receives an $8.5M settlement
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Continue Reading LA28 organizers choose former US military leader Reynold Hoover as CEO
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Continue Reading Biden will praise men like his uncles when he commemorates the 80th anniversary of D-Day in France
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Continue Reading Republican Curtis Bashaw’s nomination fueling GOP hope in deeply Democratic New Jersey
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Continue Reading IRS decides people who got money from Norfolk Southern after Ohio derailment won’t be taxed on it
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Continue Reading Appeals court halts Trump’s Georgia election case while appeal on Willis disqualification pending
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Continue Reading Texas county to pay female constable deputies $1.5 million to settle sexual misconduct lawsuit
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Continue Reading No arrests yet in street party shooting that killed 1, injured 27 in Ohio
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Continue Reading The Gilgo Beach killings suspect’s wife unknowingly helped in his arrest. She’s now filed for divorce
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Continue Reading Thousands pay tribute to Connecticut state trooper killed during highway traffic stop
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Continue Reading ‘Traitors’ cast will include Sam Asghari, Chrishell Stause, Tom Sandoval — and a British aristocrat
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Continue Reading Spare a thought for weather watcher Maureen Sweeney who made the right call for D-Day
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Continue Reading House Republicans issue criminal referrals against James and Hunter Biden, alleging false testimony
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Continue Reading Judge dismisses cruelty charges against trooper who hit loose horse with patrol vehicle
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Continue Reading ‘Unintended hero.’ A mother’s quest to find her daughter led to the eventual arrest of suspect in Gilgo Beach serial killings
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Continue Reading Evanston’s groundbreaking reparations program challenged by lawsuit from a conservative activist group
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Continue Reading Photos of released Ukrainian prisoners of war show emaciated bodies in ‘horrifying’ condition
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Continue Reading Wisconsin warden jailed hours before news conference on prison death investigations
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Continue Reading Death toll from floods across southern Germany rises to 6
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Continue Reading In France, D-Day evokes both the joys of liberation and the pain of Normandy’s 20,000 civilian dead
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Continue Reading France hurries to let New Caledonia vote in European elections after its deadly unrest. Few want to
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