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Why Oregon is recriminalizing even small amounts of illicit drugs

5:22pm March 05, 2024

Oregon's state legislature voted to reverse a measure that decriminalized personal drug use. What does the Oregon experiment and its likely overhaul mean in the wider context of the U.S. war on drugs?

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Students walk across Liberty University's campus in Lynchburg, Va.

Liberty University fined $14 million for federal crime reporting violations

4:31pm March 05, 2024

by Elissa Nadworny

The university agreed to the fine as part of a settlement agreement with the U.S. Education Department, which found numerous violations of the Clery Act, a campus safety law.

Abortion access advocates are chanting and waiving signs outside the Florida Supreme Court. Inside, justices have just heard arguments on the ballot language for a proposed state constitutional amendment that would protect abortion access up to the point of viability.

How states giving rights to fetuses could set up a national case on abortion

4:29pm March 05, 2024

by Regan McCarthy

Fetal personhood made headlines recently when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos are "extrauterine children." The ruling raised questions across the country about fetal personhood.

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A view of a lectern at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., on April 18, 2019. A retired U.S. Army officer has been accused accused of leaking classified national defense information related to the Russia-Ukraine war on a foreign dating website.

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Air Force employee accused of allegedly sharing classified info on a dating website

12:01pm March 05, 2024

by Diba Mohtasham

David Franklin Slater, a retired U.S. Army officer, was accused of leaking top classified national defense information related to the Russia-Ukraine war on a foreign dating website.

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D.C. Council considers a bill intended to combat rising crime in the city

10:27am March 05, 2024

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser about the proposed measure that would toughen some sentences and make it easier to detain people as they await trial.

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Politics & Government

Supreme Court, by a unanimous ruling, restores Trump to the Colorado ballot

7:23am March 05, 2024

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) after the Supreme Court rejected state attempts to remove Donald Trump from presidential primary ballots over his role in the Jan. 6 attack.

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Politics & Government

Morning news brief

5:04am March 05, 2024

Sixteen states and American Samoa hold primary elections. Supreme Court restores Donald Trump to Colorado's primary ballot. U.N. report finds grounds to believe Hamas attacks in Israel included rapes.

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July selection to begin in trial for 2nd parent in Michigan school shooting case

5:04am March 05, 2024

The trial of the father of a Michigan teenager who shot and killed four of his classmates in 2021 begins Tuesday. James Crumbley faces four counts of involuntary manslaughter.

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D.C. Council to vote on a measure aimed at lowering crime

5:04am March 05, 2024

NPR's Michel Martin asks D.C. Councilmember Brooke Pinto if a new package of tougher criminal penalties due to be voted on Tuesday shows the city went too far with justice and policing reforms.

Politics & Government

Alabama will vote this Tuesday using its new Congressional map

6:19pm March 04, 2024

by Stephen Fowler

For the first time since the Supreme Court weighed in, on Tuesday, Alabama will vote using its new Congressional map that gives Black voters more power.

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