| Officer caught on video in Texas pool party incident resigns Posted: 09 Jun 2015 04:24 PM PDT  The white police officer's actions were video-recorded at a North Texas pool party.
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| Dennis Hastert makes 1st court appearance in hush-money case Posted: 09 Jun 2015 04:45 PM PDT  The former House speaker pled not guilty to charges that he violated banking rules and lied to the FBI in a scheme to pay $3.5 million in hush money to conceal misconduct from his days as a high school teacher.
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| Judge in Colorado theater shooting trial dismisses 3 jurors Posted: 09 Jun 2015 04:25 PM PDT  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The judge in the Colorado theater shooting trial dismissed three jurors Tuesday after learning that one was exposed to news coverage of the case and discussed it with the others.
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| Texas policeman resigns after video shows him toppling teen Posted: 09 Jun 2015 04:35 PM PDT  McKinney Police Corporal Eric Casebolt, who is white, had been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation of how he appeared to target black youths at the disturbance on Friday in the city about 30 miles (50 km) north of Dallas, an incident that has raised fresh questions about racial bias in U.S. policing. "He came into the call out of control and as the video shows was out of control during the incident," McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley told a news conference.
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| L.A. police commission says officer violated policy in shooting Posted: 09 Jun 2015 05:04 PM PDT  Los Angeles police commissioners on Tuesday issued a mixed ruling in the shooting of unarmed black man by two patrolmen, largely approving of one officer's actions while finding that the other had violated department policy. The decision followed a tense administrative hearing into the shooting death of 25-year-old Ezell Ford last Aug. 11. One man was arrested in a hallway outside the meeting room for interfering with a police officer, according to a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman.
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| Arkansas judge tells state to recognize hundreds of same-sex marriages Posted: 09 Jun 2015 03:50 PM PDT  A judge ordered Arkansas on Tuesday to recognize hundreds of same-sex marriages that were performed during a six-day window in the state in May 2014 and have since been in legal limbo. The ruling from Pulaski County Judge Wendell Griffen applies to about 500 couples who received marriage licenses during the time when clerks issued them to same-sex couples in places such as Pulaski County, the state's most populous area and home to the capital, Little Rock. "With shameless disrespect for fundamental fairness and equality, (the state) insists on treating the marriages of same-sex couples who received marriage licenses between May 9 and May 15 as 'void as a matter of law,'" he wrote in his decision.
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| Reporters tweet their evacuation from White House press briefing room Posted: 09 Jun 2015 11:29 AM PDT  Secret Service interrupted a press briefing at the White House Tuesday, evacuating reporters from the briefing room.
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| Community leaders ask judge for arrests in Cleveland boy's death Posted: 09 Jun 2015 08:47 AM PDT  By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Community leaders asked a municipal court on Tuesday to invoke an obscure Ohio law so that a city judge could bring murder charges and issue arrest warrants for two policemen in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy. The two Cleveland officers involved in the shooting are white and the boy, Tamir Rice, was black. "The police's use of deadly force was fatal, unconscionable, that we deem criminal in nature," read the 131-page citizen complaint filed in a Cleveland Municipal Court.
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| How the White House plans to work with Hillary Clinton’s campaign Posted:  There are legal limits on how and how much people who work in the White House can cooperate with a presidential campaign.
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| McKinney, Texas, protesters call for cop to be fired Posted:  Protesters gathered in McKinney, Texas, on Monday night, three days after a white police officer responding to reports of a disturbance at a pool party was seen acting aggressively toward black teenagers, throwing a bikini-clad girl to the ground and pulling his gun on two others.
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| Louisiana inmate ordered freed after 4 decades in solitary Posted: 08 Jun 2015 09:27 PM PDT  A federal judge orders the release of the last of the "Angola Three"inmates.
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| Protests follow video of officer drawing gun on black teens Posted: 09 Jun 2015 04:21 AM PDT  A black teenager repeatedly cried out, "Call my momma!" as a white officer pinned her down.
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| Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor in Manson trial, dies at 80 Posted: 09 Jun 2015 05:02 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vincent Bugliosi was an anonymous junior member of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office when he was handed the case that, for better or worse, would define his life: the prosecution of one of America's most notorious mass murderers, Charles Manson.
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