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    Person of interest detained in Brown University shooting that left two dead

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    Nine others injured in Saturday attack that occurred during finals in engineering building in Providence, Rhode IslandA person of interest in the shooting that killed two people and wounded nine others at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday has been detained, police have said.Col Oscar Perez – the Providence police force’s chief – confirmed at a news conference on Sunday that the person of interest was in their 20s. Perez did not provide many other details about the person, including whether that person was connected to Brown. Continue reading… More

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      US Democrats release footage of Epstein’s private island – video

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      House Democrats released a handful of photos and videos from Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island, offering a rare glimpse into a secretive place where Epstein is alleged to have trafficked young girls. The materials were from law enforcement authorities in the US Virgin Islands. They were taken in 2020, the year after Epstein died by suicide in jail. The images and videos released on Wednesday do not reveal anything new but they appear to be an effort from Congress to keep the pressure on the Trump administration before a 19 December deadline for the justice department to release the filesHouse Democrats release new images of Epstein’s private Caribbean island Continue reading… More

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      Trump pardons Giuliani, Meadows and others over plot to steal 2020 election

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      Federal clemency towards president’s close allies largely symbolic as some still face legal exposure at state levelRudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, both close former political allies of Donald Trump, are among scores of people pardoned by the president over the weekend for their roles in a plot to steal the 2020 election.The maneuver is in effect symbolic, given it only applies in the federal justice system and not in state courts, where Giuliani, Meadows and the others continue facing legal peril. The acts of clemency were announced in a post late on Sunday to X by US pardon attorney Ed Martin, covers 77 people said to have been the architects and agents of the scheme to install fake Republican electors in several battleground states, which would have falsely declared Trump their winner instead of the actual victor: Joe Biden. Continue reading… More

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      Georgia supreme court ends Fani Willis bid to reverse removal from Trump case

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      Election interference case in limbo as court declines to hear appeal against disqualification of Fulton county prosecutorThe Georgia supreme court on Tuesday declined to hear Fani Willis’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling disqualifying the Fulton county prosecutor from prosecuting Donald Trump’s election interference case.In a 4-3 decision, the state’s highest court let stand the lower court order disqualifying Willis from the racketeering and election interference case that initially snagged 19 defendants, including Donald Trump, in 2023. Continue reading… More

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      Michigan judge dismisses charges against 15 of Trump’s 2020 fake electors

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      Judge says sufficient evidence of intent wasn’t given against those who signed files claiming Trump won 2020 electionA judge in Michigan dismissed the felony charges against a slate of electors who falsely signed on to documents claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election in the latest blow to efforts to hold the president and his allies accountable for attempting to overturn the results of the White House race he lost to Joe Biden.Sixteen people were initially charged with eight felonies each related to forgery and conspiracy by the Democratic attorney general, Dana Nessel, in 2023, though one of them had his charges dropped after he agreed to cooperate with the prosecution. The fake electors in Michigan will not go to trial. Continue reading… More