Federico Guillermo Klein was convicted of 12 counts, including 6 charging him with assaulting, resisting or impeding police officers.
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Senate committee approves legislation to impose stronger ethics standards on Supreme Court justices
Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to set ethics rules for the court and a process to enforce them, including new standards for transparency around recusals, gifts and potential conflicts of interest.
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Protesters storm Swedish Embassy in Baghdad after man threatens to burn Quran in Stockholm
The attack came ahead of a protest by an Iraqi asylum-seeker who burned a copy of the Quran during a demonstration last month in Stockholm.
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Pioneering hacker Kevin Mitnick, FBI-wanted felon turned security guru, dies at 59
Mitnick’s pioneering antics in the 1980s and ’90s made him the most celebrated U.S. hacker.
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Russia bombards Odesa and other southern Ukraine port cities for 3rd night
The strikes killed at least two people in Odesa. In Mykolaiv, a city close to the Black Sea, at least 19 people were injured, including a child, Ukrainian officials said.
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Home searched in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing is tied to uncle of long-dead suspect
Public records link the property to the wife of Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis, the uncle of Orlando Anderson, one of Shakur’s known rivals who authorities have long suspected in the rapper’s death.
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IRS steps toward new free-file tax return system have both supporters, critics mobilizing
And advocates for a free program to help file taxes are exponentially out-monied.
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America is barreling toward a summer of labor strikes
Even before the 100,000-plus actors joined in last week, both the number of strikes and workers on strike were up in the first half of this year, according to Bloomberg Law labor data.
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RFK Jr. defends himself against complaints of racist and antisemitic online misinformation
Kennedy defended his social media posts, which have delved into race, vaccine safety and other issues.
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Wait over as Powerball finally has winner for jackpot over $1 billion
LOS ANGELES — A winning ticket has been sold in California for the Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $1.08 billion, the sixth largest in U.S. history and the third largest in the history of the game. The winning numbers for Wednesday night’s drawing were: white balls 7, 10, 11, 13, 24 and red Powerball 24. […]