Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice recommended that a former police detective convicted of excessive force in the case of Breonna Taylor should serve a single day in prison. The judge in the case disagreed, and today sentenced former Louisville Metro Police Department detective Brett Hankison to 33 months in jail. Here's more from NBC.
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Ex-cop convicted of excessive force in Breonna Taylor case gets 33 months
Prosecutors said the former Louisville police detective fired through a window and a sliding glass door in the botched raid that killed Taylor.
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This summer we're seeing reboots of "Superman" and "Fantastic Four," so why not "but her emails?" Newsweek reports that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has released documents tied to the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her time as Secretary of State. "The release includes materials related to former FBI Director James Comey's handling of the investigation, which critics say did not thoroughly examine key evidence," Amanda Castro writes. Castro notes the timing of the release as the Department of Justice tries to deal with backlash over its handling of the Epstein files.
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Pam Bondi grants Hillary Clinton email probe request amid Epstein furor
Pam Bondi greenlit Hillary Clinton email release, praising Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley's transparency push.
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Bill Moyers, the legendary PBS journalist and White House press secretary to Lyndon B. Johnson, died last week at age 91. His obituaries talked about his incredible life — born to a dirt farmer in Oklahoma, ordained a Baptist minister, present on Air Force One after the Kennedy assassination. But Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein, who knew Moyers via his work with the Center for Investigative Reporting, says there's another story to tell. "Moyers knew Trump was not an aberration, but the logical extension of a problem that went back decades," she writes. "Corruption, he wrote me, is 'a condition beyond individual scandals — more a totality of governance, a philosophy that says democracy exists for us to take what we can while we can—to hell with the law, rules, norms and the country. It’s the crime family manifesto of the mafia, affixed to the civic life and public affairs of the nation.'" How best to honor his integrity, intelligence and commitment to truth and good journalism? "The best — and only — way to pay tribute to him is to go out and do the work," Bauerlein concludes.
The Bill Moyers the Obituaries Missed – Mother Jones
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Tomorrow will be another big day for local elections in the U.S., including the mayoral primaries for Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and a little town called NYC. Plus, a legislative special election in New Hampshire, and the possible comeback of Anthony Weiner. @npub1skvn...dfdf breaks down all the races so far and to come in June for @npub1hpgg...yrre
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The 40 Elections to Watch This June - Bolts
New Jersey, New York, and Virginia—three populous states that are electing hundreds of state and local officials this year—are holding their pr...
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Two Ukrainian colonels who were part of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's security team were secretly working for Russia's FSB security agency and plotting to assassinate him, Kyiv Post reports. Here's more.
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‘Meant to Protect Him’: Ukrainian Colonels Plotted to Kill Zelensky for Russia’s FSB — SBU Chief
Two Ukrainian security colonels tasked with protecting Zelensky were secretly working for Russia’s FSB and plotting his assassination, SBU chief ...
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US Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine says it will “take some time” to assess how much damage was done in early Sunday airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites. ABC News reports:
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'Way too early' to know full damage done to Iran nuclear sites, Joint Chiefs chairman says
President Trump has said all of Iran's nuclear sites had been "obliterated."
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Just 250 staff remain at Voice of America, after layoffs announced today by Kari Lake, special advisor to the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM). Lake says 1,400 positions have been eliminated across USAGM, an 85% decrease. When President Trump signed an order in March to shrink USAGM, advocates for the agency, including Republican lawmakers, said its networks were vital for fighting disinformation. The three VOA journalists who sued to stop the terminations were all laid off, but say their legal fight will continue. Here's more from CNN. https://flip.it/WhKAZk #News #Journalism #VoiceOfAmerica #USAGM #Disinformation #KariLake #DonaldTrump #TrumpAdministration #Media
The suspect in the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses has beens arrested, officials say. Here's more from CBS.
Vance Boelter, suspect in Minnesota lawmaker shootings, taken into custody
The man authorities believe shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses in politically motivated shootings early Saturday morning is now in cust...
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U.S. President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 members of the California National Guard to quell protests against ICE operations in Los Angeles. The White House said in a statement that Trump was deploying the Guardsmen to “address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester.” Gov. Gavin Newsom objected to the move stating that it is, “purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened in a post on X to deploy the U.S. military. Here's more from [@AssociatedPress](
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Trump deploys California National Guard to LA to quell protests despite the governor's objections
The president is deploying 2,000 troops to Los Angeles, where protests Saturday led to clashes between immigration authorities and demonstrators, ...
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European authorities recovered around 38,000 valuable cultural objects and arrested 80 suspects in a multi-country operation cracking down on illegal trade. Read more from [@dw_innovation](
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European police seize thousands of looted cultural goods
Law enforcement and customs officials from 23 countries took part in an operation called Pandora IX. Authorities recovered thousands of artefacts, ...
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