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Outdated headline sparks vicious online hate campaign …

The entrance to the Las Vegas Review-Journal campus is shown in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. The Review-Journal is being viciously attacked, either because of a misunderstanding or willful attempt to mislead, over its coverage of an alleged murder. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Testimony begins in officers’ trial over death of Elijah …

A grandmother seeks justice for Native Americans after …

Yolanda Fraser, Kaysera Stops Pretty Places' grandmother, gets a hug before a dedication ceremony for a billboard in support of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People movement on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, along I-90 in Hardin, Mont. (AP Photo/Mike Clark)

Texas AG Ken Paxton attacks rivals, doesn’t rule out US …

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, center, sits between defense attorneys Tony Buzbee, left, and Mitch Little, right, before his impeachment trial resumes in the Senate Chamber at the Texas Capitol on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Austin, Texas. (Sam Owens/The San Antonio Express-News via AP, Pool)

Video shows officer repeatedly discussed charging 11-year-old …

Sheriff says 9 deputies charged in death of man beaten …

Lawyer Brice Timmons, third from left, speaks at a news conference about the indictments of nine jail deputies in connection with an inmate's beating on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn. Timmons represents the family of Gershun Freeman, who died in last fall after a confrontation at the Shelby County Jail. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)

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A 96-year-old federal judge is barred from hearing …

FILE - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Aug. 22, 2007, in Washington. Judge Pauline Newman, a 96-year-old U.S. federal appeals court judge, has been barred from hearing cases for a year after a panel said she refused to undergo medical testing over concerns she's no longer mentally fit to serve on the bench. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

Federal appeals court reverses ruling that found …

McCarthy struggles to pass a temporary spending bill …

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks to his office after a resolution to debate the defense bill failed 212-214, as five Republicans bucked the party to sink it, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. House Republican leaders have still been unable to pass next year's appropriations bills on the floor due to GOP infighting. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Family of man who died while being admitted to psychiatric …

FILE - Caroline Ouko, mother of Irvo Otieno, holds a portrait of her son at the Dinwiddie Courthouse in Dinwiddie, Va., March 16, 2023. The family of Otieno, a man who died while handcuffed and pinned to the floor for about 11 minutes as he was being admitted to a Virginia psychiatric hospital, has reached an $8.5 million settlement, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, with the state, county and the sheriff whose deputies were involved in restraining the man. (Daniel Sangjib Min/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP, File)

Quavo steps up advocacy against gun violence after …

Quavo, center, poses for a portrait with his mother, Edna Maddox, right, and Titania Davenport, mother of late bandmate and rapper Takeoff, left, at the Annual Legislative Conference hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Judge orders Phoenix to permanently clear the city’s …

Debate over a Black student’s suspension over his …

Candice Matthews, left, National minister of politics for the New Black Panther Nation; Darryl George, center left, a 17-year-old junior, and his mother Darresha George, center right, and a unidentified female, right, begin their walk across the street to go into Barbers Hill High School after Darryl served a 5-day in-school suspension for not cutting his hair Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in Mont Belvieu. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)