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Georgia House votes to revive prosecutor oversight panel as Democrats warn of targeting Fani Willis

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia House members have passed a bill that would revive a commission with powers to discipline and remove prosecutors. But Democrats warned that Monday’s vote was aimed at disrupting Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ prosecution of former President Donald Trump. The bill now heads to the

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What happens to Olympic medals now that Russian skater Valieva has been sanctioned for doping?

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer The highest court in sports sanctioned Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva for doping violations at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The ruling means U.S. skaters will receive gold medals after they finished second behind Valieva and her teammates in the team competition. The case rocked the Olympics when, about 24

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US government pulls some of Venezuela’s sanctions relief after court blocks opposition candidate

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The U.S. government has pulled back part of the sanctions relief it granted Venezuela last year, following through on its threat after the South American country’s highest court blocked the presidential candidacy of an opposition leader. The Department of the Treasury gave companies transacting with

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11-year-old girl hospitalized after Indiana house fire dies, bringing death toll to 6 young siblings

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say an 11-year-old girl who was hospitalized for burns following a northern Indiana house fire has died, bringing the fire’s death toll to six children, all of them siblings. The Marion County Coroner’s Office said Monday that Angel Smith died Friday at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. Her

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Supreme Court is urged to rule Trump is ineligible to be president again because of the Jan. 6 riot

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers seeking to keep Donald Trump off the ballot are urging the Supreme Court to declare he’s ineligible to be president again because he spearheaded the U.S. Capitol attack in an effort to overturn his 2020 election loss. Their legal brief Friday was filled with vivid descriptions

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Maine lawmakers consider request to give subpoena power to committee investigating mass shooting

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine legislative committee is considering an emergency request to grant powers to a panel investigating last year’s Lewiston mass shooting that the state’s governor said are critical to unraveling how the killings unfolded. An independent commission is investigating the October shootings that killed 18 people

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Ex-IRS contractor gets five years in prison for leak of tax return information of Trump, rich people

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service who pleaded guilty to leaking tax information to news outlets about former President Donald Trump and thousands of the country’s wealthiest people was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday. Charles Edward Littlejohn of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty

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