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Gentle giant Backpack declared winner of Alaska's Fat Bear Week
After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve
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Judge ends federal oversight of Oakland police department after 23 years
A federal judge has ended the 23-year federal monitoring of the Oakland Police Department, marking the longest oversight of a police department in U.S. history
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Judge vacates Virginia man's murder conviction; he walks free after 25 years
A Virginia man’s murder conviction has been vacated, freeing him after 25 years in prison, including over a decade on death row
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Federal prosecutors charge Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent in Texas with assaulting an officer
Federal prosecutors in Texas announced assault charges against a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot in the back by immigration enforcement agents Sept. 20
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Florida executes 77-year-old man convicted of a deadly hammer attack on a woman
A 77-year-old man convicted of killing a woman with a hammer has become the 16th person executed this year in Florida
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Prosecutors won't seek to retry former officer who fatally shot a Black motorist in Mississippi
Mississippi’s attorney general said she will not retry a former police officer after jurors failed to reach a verdict on a manslaughter charge stemming from the fatal shooting of a Black motorist
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Lindsay Clancy's lawyer now questions whether there is proof she killed her 3 children
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer is arguing that there wasn’t enough evidence to prove she killed her three children
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Military academies won't give tenure to civilian faculty, Hegseth says
The Defense Department has decided to stop appointing civilians as tenured faculty at U.S. military academies
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Former ‘American Idol’ singer Caleb Flynn convicted of fatally shooting his wife
A former Ohio music pastor who once appeared on “American Idol” has been convicted of murder in the killing of his wife while he was having an affair
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Cornell rape allegations lead to renewed scrutiny of laws on intoxication and consent
A woman’s account of being sexually assaulted at a Cornell University fraternity house has advocates and lawmakers renewing their criticism of a New York law that makes it more difficult to prosecute people who have taken advantage of others too intoxicated to consent to sex
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