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After Iowa Confusion, Election Security Concerns Emerge Anew

4:32pm February 06, 2020

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Senate Intelligence Committee member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., about election security going forward in the 2020 elections, given the issues with Iowa's caucuses.

Travelers wait in the security line at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security warned the state that it was freezing residents' access to Global Entry and similar programs, citing a recent state

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Trump Administration Suspends New Yorkers From Trusted Traveler Programs

4:31pm February 06, 2020

The Department of Homeland Security says the state's "Green Light" law allowing licenses for immigrants without legal status interferes with security. State officials call it "political retaliation."

Bernie Madoff, shown here arriving at a court session in 2009, is currently being held at FMC Butner, a federal prison in North Carolina.

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Bernie Madoff Seeks Early Release Because He Has 'Less Than 18 Months' To Live

4:12pm February 06, 2020

by Merrit Kennedy

A lawyer says Madoff, who is serving a 150-year sentence, suffers from terminal kidney failure. The Federal Bureau of Prisons denied a similar request for release last year.

Alexander Antonio Burgos Mejia was detained at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in 2017, when he went on a hunger strike to protest conditions at the facility. He said he and the other detainees suffered burns and other injuries after GEO Group staff us

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Exclusive: Video Shows Controversial Use Of Force Inside An ICE Detention Center

3:07pm February 06, 2020

by Tom Dreisbach

Footage from a privately run immigration detention center in California shows eight men linking arms in a hunger strike. Officers responded with pepper spray, saying the men were inciting "rebellion."

Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., (right) and Mark Warner, D-Va., — pictured in September 2018 — released a report on election security Thursday.

Senate Report Faults 'Paralysis' By Obama Team On 2016 Russian Election Scheme

1:46pm February 06, 2020

by Philip Ewing

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said former President Barack Obama's administration was caught off guard and wasted time when it should have been reacting to the attack on the election.

Killing Of Iranian General Opens Up 'New Frontier' In Assassination, Journalist Says

1:42pm February 06, 2020

by Terry Gross

New Yorker writer Adam Entous says the U.S. could face further retaliation from Iran for the death of Qassem Soleimani: "If you look at their history, they take a long time before they strike back."

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Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan courtroom for his rape trial on Monday. This week, prosecutors wrapped up their case against the former Hollywood producer.

Here's What We've Learned So Far At Harvey Weinstein's Trial

1:12pm February 06, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

Prosecutors have said their piece; now it's time for Weinstein's legal team to take the stage. But before his rape trial moves on, here's a glimpse of the four biggest courtroom moments so far.

Hip-hop artist Mysonne, co-founder of the prisoner rights group United Freedom, speaks at a mass rally at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson in January to protest conditions in prisons where inmates have been killed in violent clashes.

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DOJ To Investigate Mississippi Prisons After Spate Of Inmate Deaths

12:08pm February 06, 2020

by Scott Neuman

The Justice Department's civil rights division will examine conditions at four state prisons, including the oldest, Parchman, where a prison riot broke out on Dec. 29.

Cliff Hartman, sometimes called the unofficial "mayor," sleeps on his boat but keeps a camp on Wisteria island.

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Who Owns Florida's Wisteria Island, A Developer Or The Government? Judge To Decide

10:21am February 06, 2020

by Greg Allen

Just off Key West, undeveloped Wisteria Island — long home to a ragtag community — is at the center of a legal fight. The U.S. government and a Florida developer are fighting over ownership.

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Senate Impeachment Trial Ends: Voters React To Trump's Acquittal

9:21am February 06, 2020

The Senate on Wednesday acquitted President Trump on two articles of impeachment that were filed by the House. Voters across the country react to the president's acquittal.

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