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What is an ‘official’ act, and how will a judge interpret Trump’s immunity?

What may be considered “official acts” and how will a judge interpret the legal lines drawn by the high court in Donald Trump’s federal criminal election obstruction case in D.C.

Tuesday, Jul 2

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Madame litigator

Vice President Harris is better at telling other people’s stories rather than her own. That’s not a failing, and it may well be a virtue.

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Trump’s sentencing in N.Y. hush money case postponed until September

Donald Trump’s lawyers are seeking to vacate his New York hush money conviction based on Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.

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Teddy Roosevelt’s watch, stolen in 1987, turns up at Florida auction house

Theodore Roosevelt’s watch was stolen from a museum in Buffalo. More than 35 years later, an auctioneer found it and fought to prove its authenticity.

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Hurricane Beryl tracker: Map and projected storm path

Beryl is expected to pass near Jamaica on Wednesday.

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Organizers marched to get googly eyes on Boston trains. Officials listened.

Arielle Lok and John Sanchez led a march in Boston to demand the MBTA add cartoon eyes to the front of trains. The agency agreed.

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Judge releases Epstein grand jury records from criminal case in Florida

The records from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2006 criminal case show how prosecutors raised doubts about the credibility of teenage victims recruited by the wealthy financier.

Monday, Jul 1

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Anxiety, confusion outside SCOTUS as crowd deciphers Trump immunity ruling

The decision was not as clear-cut as the crowd initially believed.

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Mistrial called in Karen Read boyfriend murder trial after jury deadlocks

Read, who was accused of fatally striking John O’Keefe with her car, has insisted she was framed by officers seeking to cover for another suspect.

Judge halts Young Thug trial in Georgia amid complaints of misconduct

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville is accused of having a secret, improper meeting with prosecutors and a star witness.

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In win for Trump, Supreme Court immunity ruling will delay trial. What’s next.

A trial judge will decide which alleged acts in Donald Trump’s indictment on charges of trying to subvert the 2020 election are official, further delaying his federal trial in D.C.

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Officials probe police shooting of teen who allegedly held replica gun

Nyah Mway, 13, was killed after a brief foot chase Friday, when police allege he brandished what they thought was a handgun.

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Former Northeastern employee convicted of staging hoax explosion

Jason Duhaime misled police and the FBI by fabricating a bomb threat at the lab where he worked, the Justice Department said.

Sunday, Jun 30

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A farm-supply chain vowed to cut DEI roles amid pressure. Outcry followed.

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Tractor Supply said it would make changes to its diversity and climate programs after fielding criticism from customers.

Saturday, Jun 29

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Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on gender-affirming care for minors

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Republican-controlled Texas is the largest state to have banned gender-affirming care.

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CEOs charged with top Navy admiral fight U.S. bribery allegations

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Two top executives of a New York-based technology services firm are challenging U.S. prosecutors’ decision to bring what one of their lawyers called a “politically motivated” military corruption case.

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Race was once factored into college admissions. Now, it’s factored out.

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One year after the Supreme Court’s landmark affirmative action decision, the ruling’s race-neutral model is being followed at colleges across the country.

He never saw himself as disadvantaged. Then the government had him write an essay.

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Curtis Joachim says an SBA program for minority-owned businesses changed his life, but the court-ordered application process made him see how race intersected with his struggles.

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Utah law targeting DEI leads university to close LGBT, women’s centers

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A Utah law dismantling DEI programs goes into effect next week. Its effects are beginning to emerge.

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A pet donkey ran away. Five years later, he’s living with a wild elk herd.

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Diesel the pet donkey ran away from his owners in 2019. More than five years later, he’s living with a herd of wild elk.

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Orlando Cepeda, Hall of Famer and baseball’s ‘Baby Bull,’ dies at 86

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His exuberant play made him a fan favorite in San Francisco and St. Louis, but a drug conviction delayed his election to the Hall of Fame.

Friday, Jun 28

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‘Hello from my Black job’: Dems strike back after Trump debate remark

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Democratic politicians took to social media to condemn and question former president Donald Trump’s remark that undocumented immigrants are ‘taking Black jobs.’

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Supreme Court says cities can ban homeless from sleeping outside

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The court was reviewing laws from Grants Pass, Ore., at a time when states and localities are struggling to deal with a growing number of unhoused individuals.

Justices strike obstruction charge for Jan. 6 defendant, likely impacting others

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Hundreds who attacked the U.S. Capitol have been charged with felony obstruction, among other counts, for disrupting the certification of the 2020 election.

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Homeland Security extends temporary protected status for Haitians

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The expansion makes an additional 309,000 Haitians eligible for temporary protected status.

Former Uvalde school police chief indicted in botched response to shooting

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The grand jury indictment found Pedro “Pete” Arredondo bears responsibility for the lengthy delay in killing the gunman at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Tex.

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Damage control

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President Biden’s surrogates have come out to reassure folks that what they watched and heard was really not as catastrophic as their eyes and ears revealed.

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Iowa’s highest court rules in favor of six-week abortion ban

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The ban, passed last summer, was among many conservative states’ efforts to end abortion in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

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Toothless dog named Wild Thang just won World’s Ugliest Dog contest

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He beat Rome — a 14-year-old pug with one eye — and Mochi, a 9-month-old chihuahua-Jack Russell terrier mix with a major underbite.

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Post publisher’s role in hacking response comes into sharper focus

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Former U.K. prime minister Gordon Brown calls for William Lewis to be criminally investigated. Lewis says he “did nothing wrong.”