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Month: March 2024

Massachusetts governor to pardon those convicted of misdemeanor cannabis possession

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey says she’ll issue pardons for tens of thousands of people convicted of misdemeanor marijuana charges going back decades in the latest example of a state ambitiously seeking to forgive low-level drug offenders. The Democrat and former state attorney general said that potentially hundreds

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Biden and Trump are now their parties’ presumptive nominees. What does that mean?

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have officially secured the requisite numbers of delegates to be considered their parties’ presumptive nominees. It was a foreseeable outcome. Biden faced token opposition in the Democratic primary. Several high-profile Republicans ran against Trump but didn’t come close

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Prosecutors say school shooter’s father was ‘grossly negligent,’ while defense says his manslaughter case is built on ‘hindsight’

By Eric Levenson and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — In closing arguments of James Crumbley’s manslaughter trial Wednesday, prosecutors said he was responsible for his son’s mass shooting at a Michigan high school because he was “grossly negligent,” while the defense said the prosecution’s case lacked evidence. Crumbley bought a SIG Sauer 9mm gun

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