Under the agreement, the special prosecutors would drop 3 felony counts against Paxton as long as he pays full restitution to his victims, and completes 100 hours of community service and 15 hours of legal ethics education.
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NBC will cut ties with former RNC head Ronna McDaniel after employee objections
Seven hosts publicly criticized the decision to make the former Republican National Committee chair a paid contributor.
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Baltimore bridge collapse and port closure send companies scrambling to reroute cargo
East Coast shipping – with trade in autos, coal and machinery – is likely to be the hardest hit.
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Judge issues gag order barring Trump from commenting on witnesses, others in hush money case
The New York judge’s order also prohibits the former president from making public statements about prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming criminal trial.
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Russia extends arrest of U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich, jailed for nearly a year
The Wall Street Journal reporter and Bowdoin College graduate is to remain in jail on espionage charges until at least late June.
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Scammer jailed in Dover-Foxcroft claimed to be a psychic, witch and Irish heiress
A hearing next month will decide whether Marianne Smyth can be extradited to the United Kingdom over a scam dating back more than 15 years in Northern Ireland.
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Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to abortion medication mifepristone
A consensus appeared to emerge among justices that the abortion opponents who challenged the FDA’s approval of the medication and subsequent actions to ease access to it lack the legal right to sue.
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UK court says Assange can’t be extradited on espionage charges until U.S. rules out death penalty
His supporters say he is a journalist protected by the First Amendment who exposed U.S. military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan that was in the public interest.
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Israel, Hamas dig in as international pressure builds for a cease-fire in Gaza
The war has killed over 32,000 Palestinians, left much of the Gaza Strip in ruins, displaced most its residents and driven a third of its population of 2.3 million to the brink of famine.
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Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapses after a cargo ship hits it; 6 presumed dead
The cargo ship lost power and issued a mayday before hitting the bridge, enabling authorities to limit vehicle traffic on the span.