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Ohtani’s Former Interpreter Is Said to Be Negotiating a Guilty Plea
Ippei Mizuhara stands accused of covering his gambling debts by stealing millions of dollars from Shohei Ohtani’s bank account.
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Newyork
Ex-Cornell Student Admits Targeting Jewish Students With Online Threats
Patrick Dai pleaded guilty to posting a series of messages in which he threatened to stab, rape and behead Jewish people.
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US
Senate Leaders Look to Curb ‘Judge Shopping’ But In Different Ways
Senators Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell don’t think the federal judiciary is doing enough, and each is introducing a bill to address the issue.
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Newyork
New York Has a Budget Trick to Try on the Federal Government
The state hopes to take advantage of Medicaid reimbursement rules to divert federal funds into state coffers.
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World
Bolsonaro enfrenta un nuevo riesgo legal tras su paso por la embajada de Hungría
El Supremo Tribunal Federal de Brasil y la policía federal exigen respuestas al expresidente tras una investigación del Times.
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Newyork
Abortion Law Is Far From Settled
In his majority opinion in the case overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito insisted that the high court was finally settling the vexed abortion debate by returning the “authority to regulate abortion” to the “people and their elected ...
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US
Greg Abbott Has Been Gunning for a Battle on the Border
The Texas governor has rallied Republicans by pushing the boundaries of what a governor can do when it comes to immigration. Now he’s in a head-to-head confrontation with the Biden administration.
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US
Three Men Face Federal Gun Charges in Kansas City Super Bowl Parade Shooting
Prosecutors said some of the weapons recovered from the scene of the Feb. 14 shooting had been unlawfully purchased or trafficked.
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Newyork
What Do We Owe Black Americans?
In my debut novel, a family retraces their lineage in order to be eligible for the nation’s first federal reparations program for Black Americans. When I was selling my novel in 2021, it was pitched to publishers as “speculative fiction, but only ...
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Newyork
Morning in America
There is a famous story by the French writer Jean Giono about a man who plants trees in a barren valley. “For three years he had been planting trees in this wilderness. He had planted one hundred thousand. Of the hundred thousand, twenty thousand had ...