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Feds to investigate Maryland State Police hiring practices

The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into the Maryland State Police to determine if the agency engaged in racially discriminatory hiring and promotion practices

The Independent UK

Justice Department investigating Md. State Police over possible employment discrimination

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a “pattern or practice” investigation into the Maryland Department of State Police to examine if the agency had racially discriminatory hiring and promotion practices, officials announced Friday.

Tribune News Service

US police shot Jayland Walker more than 40 times

Police in Akron, Ohio shot the unarmed Black man 46 times, causing ‘devastating injuries’, medical examiner says.

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As violent crime in Chicago soared, arrests fell to historic lows

Chicago police have made arrests in fewer and fewer crimes in recent years. The decline mirrors a drop in nearly every category of officers’ activity tracked by the Chicago Police Department.

Chicago Sun-Times

NAACP calls on Garland to probe killing of Jayland Walker

The NAACP is making a direct plea to Attorney General Merrick Garland for the Justice Department to open a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting death of Jayland Walker, the Black man who was killed last month by officers in Ohio in a hail of police gunfire

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Emmett Till accuser, in memoir, denies wanting teen killed

The white woman who was at the center of the 1955 lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi denies wanting him killed

The Independent UK

Suspect in the Buffalo mass shooting has been indicted on federal hate crime charges

The white gunman has been held without bail since his arrest after the May 14 shooting that killed 10 Black people and injured three others.

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Buffalo shooter indicted on federal hate crimes charges

The charges carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment or the death penalty.

Axios

Steve Bannon says in leaked audio Trump planned to declare victory on election night even if losing

Former White House official reveals plan in leaked audio

The Independent UK

Jan. 6 panel gives information about Trump’s fake electors’ scheme to Justice Department

The chair of the Jan. 6 committee said the panel has started handing over information about former President Donald Trump’s fake electors’ scheme to Department of Justice prosecutors.

Tribune News Service

Witness tampering at Jan. 6 hearing? Cheney raises prospect

In a Jan. 6 committee hearing already sprinkled with notable moments, Rep. Liz Cheney saved perhaps the most startling one for last

The Independent UK

Jan. 6 hearings: What we’ve learned, and what’s next

Through seven hearings this summer, the House Jan. 6 panel has maintained consistent themes: Donald Trump’s stubborn resistance to advisers who told him that Joe Biden won the election, and the former president’s role in inciting the Capitol insurrection

The Independent UK

Scientific Games’ lottery playbook succeeded, then spread

State lotteries now exist in 45 states and the District of Columbia

The Independent UK

With Trump's role on Jan. 6 becoming clearer, and potentially criminal, GOP voters are starting to look at different options

As the Jan. 6 committee reconvened for another round of hearings, the question remains: Will the Justice Department indict former President Donald Trump for his role in the assault on the U.S. Capitol?

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Digital mental health companies draw scrutiny and growing concerns

When Pat Paulson’s son told her he was feeling anxious and depressed at college, Paulson went through her Blue Cross Blue Shield provider directory and started calling mental health therapists. No providers in the Wisconsin city where her son’s university is located had openings. So she bought a monthly subscription…

Reuters

U.S. says 2 Congolese plead guilty to trafficking ivory, rhinoceros horn

Two Congolese, who were earlier arrested in the United States and indicted by a federal grand jury, have pleaded guilty to trafficking elephant ivory and white rhinoceros horn from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Seattle, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.

Salon

Dems call on Garland to do something

"All of it points to the urgent need for DOJ to prosecute Donald Trump," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

Salon

The coup was crazier than it seems

The committee downplayed the infamous Dec. 2020 White House meeting. It was actually much, much crazier

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The meeting that changed history and 3 other takeaways from the latest Jan. 6 hearing

Trump made a fateful choice in the early morning hours of Dec. 19, 2020, days after the Electoral College voted, to choose a path that led to the insurrection on Jan. 6.

The Guardian - US

Trump attempted to contact witness speaking to January 6 committee

Liz Cheney, Republican vice-chair of committee, says ‘we will take any efforts to influence witness testimony very seriously’

The Independent UK

Dettelbach becomes head of ATF, 1st confirmed chief in years

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Steve Dettelbach to run the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

The Independent UK

January 6 hearing: Lawmakers say focus will be on the role extremist groups played in Capitol riot

The House January 6 committee upcoming hearing is expected to present evidence about far-right extremist groups and their potential ties to the former US president and the final phase of his multi-pronged effort to halt Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.

Tribune News Service

Who was Emmett Till? What to know about his death and legacy

RALEIGH, N.C. — In 1955, a white woman alleged that a Black teenager whistled at, grabbed and said obscene things to her in her grocery store in Mississippi. The result? A brutal kidnapping, beating and murder in the Jim Crow South.

ABC News

Donald Trump accused of a sprawling 'conspiracy': recapping the first eight Capitol riot hearings

There's been chilling testimony from the January 6 public hearings, revealing graphic video and bombshell testimony from inside the White House. Here's every hearing re-capped and what's coming next.

WEKU

Here's what we know about links between extremists and Trump allies

Aides to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol said the next hearing would focus on extremist groups and their possible links to Trump and his allies.

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