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    Ex-cop on the run after allegedly killing ex-wife at her school, murdering girlfriend and abducting kid as he was due in court for child rape

    An ex-school cop is on the run after allegedly gunning down his ex-wife and his 17-year-old girlfriend in Washington state – on the same day he was due to face court on child rape charges. Police are frantically hunting for Elias Huizar, 39 – who they say is “armed” and “likely to commit more...
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    Colorado organizers fail to gather enough signatures to put anti-abortion amendment on ballot; abortion rights amendment has ~double the amount needed

    Colorado organizers fail to gather enough signatures to put anti-abortion measure on the ballot The group needed to collect 124,238 signatures by the April 18 deadline. Faye Barnhart, co-sponsor of the measure, told CBS News that the group had collected "tens of thousands of signatures," but...
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    DOJ Imposes $9.9M Penalty for Montana Man Who [in 2018] Targeted Communities & Candidates with Illegal (& Racist) Robocalls

    Robocalls were focused on ‘xenophobic’ statements in communities dealing with tragedies A federal court in Montana last week imposed a nearly $10 million penalty against a Libby man who sent thousands of harassing and malicious spoofed robocalls that targeted people and communities in several...
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    90-year-old Lake Alfred city commissioner arrested on 300 counts of child sexual imagery: Affidavit

    Charles Lake, 90, was arrested on Thursday afternoon and charged with 300 counts of child [sexual imagery]. According to his arrest affidavit, deputies with the Polk County Sheriff's Office served a warrant at his Lake Alfred home at around 12:58 p.m. on Thursday where he admitted to possessing...
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    Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant patients, leaving one woman to miscarry in a lobby restroom, another to deliver in her car

    Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, federal documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal.
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    House takes key step forward on foreign aid [Ukraine, Israel, etc.] bills with bipartisan support, setting up final vote Saturday [PASSED]

    The House voted Friday in a bipartisan manner to advance a key foreign aid package, a significant step in sending aid to Ukraine and Israel and setting up a final vote as soon as Saturday. Three bills in the foreign aid package would provide aid for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific region...
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    York City [PA] Police officer accused of raping, inflicting severe injuries to toddler

    Steven Cugini, 28, of York, was arrested and charged in Dauphin County Tuesday after being accused of sexually and physically abusing the 1-year-old child, according to a news release from State Police at Lykens. Online court documents show that Cugini faces multiple felony charges that include...
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    Turning Point Action official (and Arizona state Rep.) resigns from TPA after accusation of election-related fraud, drops out of race

    A top leader of the national conservative group Turning Point Action, which has amplified false claims of election fraud by former president Donald Trump and others, resigned Thursday after being accused of forging voter signatures on official paperwork so that he could run for reelection in the...
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    Oklahoma county GOP chair arrested in alleged murder-kidnap plot

    Tiffany Adams, an Oklahoma resident who last year was elected as the chairwoman of Cimarron County Republican Party, was arrested this week and charged with three other people of participating in kidnapping and murder. Local news station KOCO reports that Adams was charged with participating in...
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    Trump is increasingly funneling campaign money into his own businesses. Experts say it looks bad, but is probably totes legal.

    Trump’s joint fundraising committee wrote three checks in February and one in March to his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, totaling $411,287 and another in March to Trump National Doral Miami for $62,337, according to a report filed to the Federal Election Commission this week. Trump...
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    Man suspected of throwing a pipe bomb at The Satanic Temple in Massachusetts is arrested, prosecutors say

    A suspect has been arrested for allegedly throwing a pipe bomb that damaged The Satanic Temple headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts, where investigators found a letter addressed, “Dear Satanist” at the scene last week, prosecutors announced. Sean Patrick Palmer, 49, of Perkins, Oklahoma, was...
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    USC valedictorian’s grad speech is canceled: ‘The university has betrayed me’

    When Asna Tabassum learned that USC had disinvited her from speaking at next month’s graduation, she hadn’t yet planned what she would say in her remarks, beyond that she would convey a message of hope. University leaders who announced the decision Monday, after pro-Israel groups criticized a...
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    Crash of 18-wheeler into Texas Department of Public Safety office was likely ‘criminal act,’ sheriff says

    A person has been arrested in connection with the crash of an 18-wheeler into a Texas Department of Public Safety building in Brenham, according to law enforcement. “We believe this was a criminal act,” Washington County Sheriff Otto Hanak told CNN affiliate KHOU on Friday. The agency said...
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    Bixby Oklahoma youth minister faces child sexual exploitation, child sexual imagery charges

    Chaz Chinsethagid faces a criminal complaint filed in Tulsa federal court that alleges one count each of attempted coercion or enticement of a minor, receipt and distribution of child [XXX] and sexual exploitation of children. [After he solicited an undercover cop posing as a 14 year old girl...
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    18 years ago, NH policeman reprimanded for inappropriate relationship with teen girl, loses job after threat to rape chief's wife, then kill him

    The details have been sealed until recently. Where do you suppose that guy is now? Naturally he's a state representative and Trump campaign county chair. Documents: Rep. Jon Stone Threatened Mass Shooting and Rape After Investigation Republican Rep. Jon Stone’s New Hampshire law enforcement...
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    “Once again, the State of Florida has a First Amendment problem” - Judge rules teacher can use preferred pronouns at work despite state law

    Transgender Hillsborough County teacher can use preferred pronouns at work, federal judge rules Chief United States District Judge Mark E. Walker, an Obama appointee, wrote that Wood is “substantially likely” to succeed on her First Amendment claims, and issued a preliminary injunction blocking...
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    Lame Deer Montana Pastor Sentenced to 30 years For Child Sex Abuse on Native Reservation

    The U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich shared his thoughts on this verdict: Smith was the pastor of a local church in Lame Deer, Montana, on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. During his time on the reservation, he and his wife hosted other children from the community. In around 2021 and...
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    Jasper Missouri Youth Pastor given 40-year prison sentence for child rape

    Jasper child rapist given 40-year prison sentence 30-year-old John Estes was sentenced Monday after a jury found him guilty of 1st-degree statutory rape back in February. (previously) Jury selection underway for former youth pastor facing sexual assault allegations Court documents add that...
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    A Nebraska bill to ban transgender students from the bathrooms and sports of their choice fails

    Sens. Tom Brandt and Merv Riepe, who initially cosponsored the bill and had been expected to support it, abstained. See also (Aug 2023): Nebraska governor signs order narrowly defining sex as that assigned at birth
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    Idaho man faces federal terrorism charge. Prosecutors say he planned a church attack to support IS

    Authorities said Alexander Scott Mercurio adopted the Muslim faith against his Christian parents' wishes and was in contact with FBI informants posing as Islamic State group supporters.