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Month: March 2022

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Guantanamo detainee repatriated to mental health facility in Saudi Arabia after being tortured and held by US government for over 20 years

By Ellie Kaufman, CNN A Saudi detainee at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was sent back to his home country for mental health treatment after being detained by the US government for more than 20 years, the Defense Department announced Monday. Authorities once alleged that the detainee, Mohammed al-Qahtani, was an al Qaeda

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Guy Reffitt

First January 6 trial heads to jury deliberations in litmus test for DOJ’s Capitol riot prosecutions

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Prosecutors doubled down on their portrayal of the legislator-hating, gun-toting, right-wing extremist Guy Reffitt as the person who showed rioters outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, how to push back against a police line. On Tuesday morning, the Washington jurors will begin to discuss whether they

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Trial canceled for Columbia man after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter for drug overdose in Miller County

TUSCUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A trial was canceled for a Columbia man after he pleaded guilty in February to involuntary manslaughter and delivery of a controlled substance in connection to a drug overdose death from August 2020 in Miller County. William Crooks pled guilty without a negotiated plea agreement with the State regarding disposition, meaning he

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