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Keechant Sewell speaks to the media in the Queens borough of New York City on Wednesday. New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams named Sewell, a Long Island police official, as the city's next police commissioner, making her the first woman to lead the natio

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New York mayor-elect taps Keechant Sewell to be the NYPD's first female commissioner

10:53am December 15, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

Keechant Sewell, who is originally from Queens, has worked in the Nassau County Police Department for 23 years, most recently as chief of detectives.

The significance of the House voting to hold Mark Meadows in contempt

7:21am December 15, 2021

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to law professor Kim Wehle about the Democratic-led U.S. House voting to hold the former Trump White House chief of staff in criminal contempt of Congress.

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News brief: D.C. sues groups over Capitol attack, pandemic deaths, tornado damage

5:58am December 15, 2021

A D.C. official is suing two extremist groups for the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The U.S. marks another sobering pandemic milestone. President Biden heads to Kentucky to survey tornado damage.

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A Black Chicago woman handcuffed in the nude in a wrongful raid to get $2.9 million

5:00am December 15, 2021

by Vanessa Romo

Lawmakers vote on the payout on Wednesday, years after the "horrific video" of Anjanette Young triggered a slew of policy changes in the way the police department conducts search warrants.

The idea of adoption as an alternative to abortion was thrust into the spotlight earlier this month as the Supreme Court considered a Mississippi law to restrict access to abortion.

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It's not as simple as abortion v. adoption. Just ask Bri

8:38pm December 14, 2021

by Amy Isackson

The idea of adoption as an alternative to abortion was raised earlier this month as the Supreme Court considered a Mississippi law to restrict access to abortion.

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District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced on Tuesday that the District of Columbia is suing the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys for damages from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Politics & Government

D.C.'s attorney general is suing the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers over Capitol attack

6:03pm December 14, 2021

by Ryan Lucas

The District of Columbia is seeking damages from the two far-right groups for allegedly conspiring to terrorize the city with the violent attack on Jan. 6.

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Washington, D.C., attorney general files 1st civil suit over Jan. 6 Capitol attack

4:23pm December 14, 2021

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Karl Racine, attorney general of the District of Columbia, about the civil lawsuit he's filed over the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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A makeshift memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School honors the 215 children whose remains were found near the facility, in Kamloops, Canada, on September 1, 2021.

World News

Canada pledges $40 billion in talks over rampant abuses of Indigenous children

11:18am December 14, 2021

by Joe Hernandez

From 1831 to 1998, the government separated some 150,000 Indigenous children from their families and sent them to residential schools where they routinely faced physical and sexual abuse.

James Crumbley and Jennifer Crumbley are the parents of Ethan Crumbley, who is accused of killing four students at Oxford High School in Michigan.

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The parents of the Michigan school shooting suspect head to court again

8:38am December 14, 2021

The parents of Oxford High School student Ethan Crumbley will be in court on Tuesday for a probable cause hearing on four involuntary manslaughter charges.

A Harvard scientist, accused of lying about his links to China, goes on trial

7:17am December 14, 2021

by Ryan Lucas

The trial of a prominent Harvard University scientist opens Tuesday in federal court in Boston. Defendant Charles Lieber is one of the world's leading researchers in nanotechnology.

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