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Orrin Jackson, center, is one of the nonprofit Dream.org's network of formerly incarcerated people who lobbied Congress to pass the Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of the Law (EQUAL) Act. Shown here are lawmakers and bill advocates from Dream.org and Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM).

A bill that would have impacted racial disparity in cocaine crimes died in the Senate

3:15pm January 10, 2023

by Carrie Johnson

A bill that would have erased long-standing racial disparities in federal drug crimes failed to clear the Senate, disappointing thousands of people in prison and their families.

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The Trump Organization's former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, arrives at court Tuesday in New York. The longtime Donald Trump lieutenant who became a star prosecution witness and helped convict the former president's company of tax fraud pleaded guilty for dodging taxes on $1.7 million in company-paid perks.

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Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months for his role in Trump Organization tax fraud

3:10pm January 10, 2023

by Ilya Marritz

The company's longtime chief financial officer had pleaded guilty to 15 felonies and testified against the Trump Organization, which was convicted last month and is set to be sentenced on Friday.

Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., where a six-year-old student shot and injured his teacher on Friday.

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A 6-year-old shooter raises difficult questions for the criminal justice system

9:59am January 10, 2023

by Becky Sullivan

Although Virginia law does not set a minimum age for criminal prosecution, the traditional principles of criminal justice "don't really apply" when the offender is so young, one legal expert said.

A bill that would have impacted racial disparity in cocaine crimes died in the Senate

5:07am January 10, 2023

by Carrie Johnson

The Senate failed to advance a bill that would have reduced one of the most persistent racial disparities in criminal justice: punishment for crack cocaine.(Story aired on ATC on Jan. 9, 2023.)

Rapper Young Thug is accused of helping found a violent street gang.

Rapper Young Thug's RICO trial begins

6:22am January 09, 2023

by Giulia Heyward

Jeffery Lamar Williams, professionally known as Young Thug, stands accused of helping found a violent street gang in Georgia.

Weinstein faces sentencing in California for rape and sexual assault conviction

5:13am January 09, 2023

by Mandalit del Barco

Disgraced film executive Harvey Weinstein will be sentenced Monday following a rape and sexual assault conviction in California. He's already serving a separate sentence in New York.

Louisiana's new porn law carries user privacy risks

5:22pm January 08, 2023

NPR's Andrew Limbong talks with Jason Kelley, of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about a new Louisiana law that requires users to submit a government ID to look at pornographic material online.

A bump stock is displayed on March 15, 2019, in Harrisonburg, Va. A Trump administration ban on bump stocks, devices that enable a shooter to rapidly fire multiple rounds from semi-automatic weapons after an initial trigger pull, was struck down Friday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans.

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A U.S. appeals court blocks a ban on rapid-fire 'bump stocks'

11:01am January 07, 2023

by The Associated Press

A Trump administration ban on the devices, which enable a shooter to rapidly fire multiple rounds from semi-automatic weapons after an initial trigger pull, was struck down by a federal appeals court.

A Chase Bank branch is seen in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 13, 2022. The Wall Street Journal is asking for answers from the Phoenix Police Department after a Black Journal reporter was handcuffed and detained outside a Chase Bank in November.

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A Black 'Wall Street Journal' reporter was detained while working outside a bank

6:00am January 07, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

The Phoenix Police Department says that it has launched an internal investigation following the arrest of Journal finance reporter Dion Rabouin, who was conducting interviews outside a Chase Bank.

The Emancipation Statue symbolizing the breaking of the chains of slavery at the moment of emancipation is shown on November 16, 2021 in Bridgetown, Barbados.

How reparation efforts in Barbados found an international spotlight

5:06am January 07, 2023

by Jaclyn Diaz

The online buzz over high profile Britons' ties to the trans-Atlantic slave trade put attention on the ongoing reparations push in Barbados, and other Caribbean nations.