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Lawyer Describes The Emotional Toll Of Calculating Victims' Compensation

5:06pm September 11, 2016

After Sept. 11, the difficult conversation began about compensating survivors and assessing the long-term value of a lost human life. It fell to Special Master Kenneth Feinberg to administer it.

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Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Describes 'Ecstatic' Mood After Pipeline Halt

5:11pm September 10, 2016

The Standing Rock Sioux are at the center of the dispute over the Dakota Access Pipeline. The tribe's chairman, David Archambault, gives his reaction to the latest court and government decisions.

Police and Secret Service agents react to the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981 outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC.

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The Man Who Tried To Kill Reagan Walks Free — With Conditions

4:18pm September 10, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

John Hinckley Jr., who injured Reagan in 1981, has left a mental hospital where he stayed for decades and arrived at his mother's house in Virginia. The judge set numerous conditions for his release.

Court Blocks Proof-Of-Citizenship Requirement For Voters In 3 States

12:46pm September 10, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Alabama, Georgia and Kansas will not be allowed to require proof of citizenship on a federal mail voter registration form. Only Kansas has been actively enforcing the controversial rule.

Native American protestors gather at a construction site for the Dakota Access pipeline to perform a daily prayer ceremony. Over 1,000 people, most Native American, have gathered at two prayer camps along the Cannonball River near its confluence with the

At The Sacred Stone Camp, A Coalition Joins Forces To Protect The Land

9:54am September 10, 2016

by Leah Donnella

Hundreds of Native Americans and their supporters have gathered in North Dakota to protest the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Justice Department Says Texas Is Misleading Voters In ID Law Re-Education

8:44am September 10, 2016

by Ashley Lopez

The Department of Justice and voting advocates say Texas is misleading voters with information about how its voter ID law is supposed to work after courts struck down an earlier version of the law.

Federal Government Halts Construction Of Part Of North Dakota Pipeline

8:44am September 10, 2016

Tribal members protested the building of the controversial pipeline, near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, because it would cut across burial grounds and threaten the reservation's water supply.

Kris Teegardin, Mayor of Edgewater, Colorado, says he's not banking on marijuana revenue for the long-term.

Marijuana Pays For Schools In Colorado — Kind Of — But How Will It Help Maine?

8:29am September 10, 2016

Colorado legalized recreational pot in 2012. Maine and four other states will vote on if to legalize it in November. We look at who's making money on pot in Colorado and who could benefit in Maine.

Alameda County (California) District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announces criminal charges against 7 current and former police officers involved in a wide-ranging sexual misconduct scandal. (Alex Emslie, KQED)

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California DA Charges Seven Police Officers in Sex-Abuse Scandal

8:08pm September 09, 2016

by Richard Gonzales

The charges stem from allegations that officers in Oakland and several other San Francisco Bay Area law enforcement agencies sexually exploited a teenager.

Native Americans march to a sacred site on Sunday that they say was disturbed by bulldozers working on the Dakota Access Pipeline, near the encampment where hundreds of people have gathered to join the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's protest.

Judge Rules That Construction Can Proceed On Dakota Access Pipeline

6:15pm September 09, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe had sought a temporary stop to work on the pipeline. But after the ruling, three U.S. agencies said work would halt in an area particularly sensitive to the tribe.