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Missouri attorney general is accused of racial bias for pinning a student fight on diversity program

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Days after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey blamed an after-school fight on a school district’s diversity programming, a lawyer for the majority Black district in suburban St. Louis says the state’s chief attorney is showing racial bias. At issue is an assault that took place

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Texas AG Paxton settles felony fraud investigation, avoiding trial and ending yearslong legal saga

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday struck a deal with prosecutors investigating him for felony securities fraud, closing a legal saga that has dogged the state’s top law-enforcement officer and close ally of former President Donald Trump for nearly a decade. Special prosecutor Brian Wice confirmed the case

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NY judge issues gag order on Trump in hush money trial, blasting his ‘threatening, inflammatory, denigrating’ statements

By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — A New York judge has imposed a gag order on Donald Trump, limiting the former president from making statements about potential witnesses in the criminal trial relating to hush money payments scheduled to begin next month. Judge Juan Merchan also said that Trump

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When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it opened the floodgates for abortion-related lawsuits

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear its first abortion case since the 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade and upheaval of reproductive rights in America. Consider how much the justices’ decision has changed the country: Fourteen states now have total bans and seven others have imposed substantial

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