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Grim Sleeper Verdict Renews Push To Investigate Murders In South Los Angeles

7:16pm May 06, 2016

by Kirk Siegler

A guilty verdict in the months-long "Grim Sleeper" serial killer trial has brought some closure to many families of the victims. But community leaders in south Los Angeles are pressing forward with pressuring police to investigate at least 35 other possible murders.

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'John Doe' Offers To Turn Over Original Panama Papers Documents To Prosecutors

6:47pm May 06, 2016

by Jim Zarroli

But the anonymous source behind the document dump wants immunity from government prosecution first.

Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, in Karnes City, Texas, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border.

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Texas Judge Refuses To License Child Care Facility In Immigrant Detention Center

6:59am May 06, 2016

by John Burnett

The judge blocked a state agency from licensing the facility inside a private detention facility for undocumented mothers and children who have crossed the Texas-Mexico border.

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Los Angeles Jury Reaches Verdict In Grim Sleeper Serial Murder Trial

10:04pm May 05, 2016

by Frank Stoltze

A Los Angeles jury has reached a verdict in the Grim Sleeper serial murder trial. Lonnie Franklin Jr. is charged with 10 counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.

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On Thursday, a Los Angeles jury found Lonnie Franklin Jr. guilty of 10 counts of first-degree murder.

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'Grim Sleeper' Trial: Jury Finds Los Angeles Man Guilty On 10 Counts Of Murder

6:50pm May 05, 2016

by Laura Wagner

Lonnie Franklin Jr. "sat silently, staring straight ahead," as the clerk read the guilty verdicts, NPR's Kirk Siegler reports.

Federal investigators have interviewed Huma Abedin and other top Hillary Clinton aides as part of an ongoing investigation into the candidate's use of a private email server as secretary of state.

FBI Probe Of Clinton Email Use Advances With Aides' Interviews

6:32pm May 05, 2016

by Carrie Johnson

Federal investigators have interviewed top aides to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. They're asking whether her email practices as secretary of state compromised government secrets.

Demonstrators against House Bill 2 protest outside the Governor's Mansion in downtown Raleigh, N.C., on March 24. Among other restrictions, the law says transgender people have to use the bathroom that corresponds with their biological sex rather than the

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N.C. Will Miss Deadline To Respond To Justice Department About LGBT Law

5:33pm May 05, 2016

by Dana Farrington

A North Carolina law that restricts which bathrooms transgender people can use violates the Civil Rights Act, the DOJ says. State House Speaker Tim Moore says lawmakers won't take action by Monday.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray says financial firms use arbitration to

New Rule Would Make It Easier For Consumers To Sue Banks

1:36pm May 05, 2016

by Chris Arnold

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed banning financial firms from forcing arbitration to avoid lawsuits. But industry officials say the rule will lead to frivolous legal action.

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Colorado Springs Agrees To Stop Jailing People Too Poor To Pay Court Fines

1:30pm May 05, 2016

by Joseph Shapiro

The ACLU of Colorado last year discovered nearly 800 cases where people had gone to jail in Colorado Springs when they couldn't pay their tickets for minor violations. Most were homeless.

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U.S. Navy air wing captains pause on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt last September. Every day, the steam-powered catapult aboard this massive ship flings American fighter jets into the sky, on missions to target the extremi

U.S. Army Captain Is Suing Obama Over Legality Of The War Against ISIS

1:29pm May 05, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Capt. Nathan Michael Smith, who is currently on active duty in Kuwait, says he is concerned that an "illegal" war "forces him to violate his oath to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution."