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President Trump pardoned former Indiana Rep. Stephen Buyer, who served 22 months for insider trading after pocketing about $350,000 on secret T-Mobile/Sprint merger information.
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Gov. Kay Ivey signed the Child Predator Death Penalty Act, making the sexual abuse of a child under 12 a capital crime starting Oct. 1 — setting up a likely Supreme Court fight over Kennedy v. Louisiana.
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A D.C. judge dismissed the Kennedy Center's breach-of-contract suit against jazz musician Chuck Redd, who canceled his Christmas Eve show to protest Trump's takeover of the venue.
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A new Marist poll finds 77% of Americans want the Epstein files released, and 90% support releasing at least some of them even with victims' names redacted.
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A new Lawfare analysis finds roughly 97 of the nearly 1,600 Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump have already been arrested again — about one in sixteen.
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New Mexico's bipartisan legislative truth commission voted to issue 14 subpoenas in the Epstein case, targeting his estate, the FBI, the DOJ, two U.S. Attorney's offices, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase.
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Sarah Kellen, Jeffrey Epstein's former assistant, named three new figures in closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee. Chair James Comer has asked the DOJ to investigate. The claims are allegations; no charges have been filed.
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At a June 5 appeals court hearing, a DOJ lawyer agreed that no one would have legal standing to stop the president from bulldozing the Statue of Liberty - a startling courtroom argument about the limits of presidential power.
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A Colorado federal judge issued a temporary injunction blocking the Trump administration from breaking up NCAR, citing evidence of political retaliation against the state.
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A federal judge ruled the Trump administration's freeze on asylum and immigration processing for nationals of 39 countries unlawful, ordering officials to restart the system.
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A federal judge ruled the Kennedy Center board broke the law by adding Trump's name, and staff have been ordered to strip it from all documents by June 12.
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Melinda French Gates has pledged $215 million to advance women's health worldwide, funding contraception, maternal care, and menopause research through her organization Pivotal.
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