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Taco Bell, one of the nation's largest fast food chains, agreed to pay $85,500 in fines Wednesday after the company was accused of refusing to cash out customers' gift cards when they were valued at less than $10.California law allows customers to get a refund when the balance of gift cards is less than $10, but prosecutors in Ventura, Los Angeles and Sonoma counties accused Taco Bell in a lawsuit of refusing to cash out the cards.

Something funny happened yesterday.Full-time Trump-whisperer Maggie Haberman, Trump-whisperer Jonathan Swan, and DOJ reporter Charlie Savage wrote a story responding to Trump's promise to appoint prosecutors to investigate Joe Biden and his family just like Biden's own DOJ has done (which they note).

Aileen Cannon just issued an order for attorneys for Trump or Walt Nauta to contact DOJ's Litigation Security Group to start the process of applying for security clearances by tomorrow.This is just one order.It likely came as a result of DOJ contacting the Litigation Security Group, probably asking that a Court Security Officer be appointed, for this case, and alerting them that lawyers will need clearances.

A judge said Friday that he wants to hold the trial for the father of accused Highland Park gunman in October or November."I'm somewhat bound and determined that we're gonna go to trial in October or early November," Lake County Judge George Strickland said at a hearing for Robert Crimo Jr. "I'm gonna move you along, fair warning."

The last time U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled on a case involving Donald Trump and his alleged hoarding of classified documents, the dressing-down from appellate judges above her was stern and blunt.Last year, Cannon, a Trump appointee, approved Trump's demand for an outside arbiter to examine documents that federal agents had seized from the former president's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.

Arizona governor signs order barring local prosecutors from handling abortion prosecutions



Democrat Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs delivers her State of the State address at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Jan. 9. Hobbs announced Friday that she has signed an executive order that transfers power to file abortion-related charges from local prosecutors to Democrat Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes.

Jack McNally, who as a police detective in 1964 made the first arrest in the most audacious jewel theft in New York City history, and who then became a private investigator for famous defense lawyers like F. Lee Bailey and worked on behalf of clients like O.J. Simpson, died on May 28.He was 89.His death was announced on the website of the Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home on Staten Island, which handled the funeral arrangements.

Police in Germany have arrested a truck driver accused in the crash in Italy last year that killed professional cyclist Davide Rebellin, Italian prosecutors said Saturday.Wolfgang Rieke is accused of road homicide and leaving the scene of a crash.Vicenza prosecutor Lino Giorgio Bruno said he was arrested Thursday in Muenster on a European arrest warrant.

Lilia Chanysheva gestures as she stands in a cage during a hearing in a courtroom of the Kirovskiy District Court in Ufa, Russia, June 14."I am a politician, a woman who is being persecuted by men who are her opponents," she said in her final statement to the court earlier this month.AP Photo MOSCOW A Russian court sentenced a leading associate of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to 7 1/2 years in prison on extremism-related charges on Wednesday the latest in a series of lengthy prison terms issued to political opponents of the Kremlin amid the war in Ukraine.

Heather Mack has already spent nearly every day behind bars since her mother's bludgeoned body was found stuffed in a suitcase in the Bali resort where they'd been vacationing nine years ago, sparking international headlines and leading police on a trail that began in suburban Chicago.On Friday, Mack will undoubtedly be facing many years more in prison, as she is set to plead guilty in the federal murder conspiracy case against her in Chicago rather than go to trial in August.

A cellphone video taken by a teenage bystander showing a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, pressing his knee on the neck of a 46-year-old Black man, George Floyd, on a Minneapolis street corner on May 25, 2020, led to the largest social-justice protest movement in the United States in a half-century.

Brazil outclassed Guinea 4-1 in a friendly on Saturday as Joelinton, Rodrygo, Eder Militao and Vinicius Jr scored for the five-times world champions who wore an all-black kit in the first half to promote an anti-racism campaign.It was the first of two friendlies for Brazil against African nations in support of Real Madrid forward Vinicius, who was racially abused in a LaLiga match at Valencia in May, the 10th time incidents involving him have been reported by LaLiga to prosecutors this season.

By the time the prisoner accused of plotting the U.S.S.Cole bombing boasted about his role in the attack during interrogations at Guantanamo Bay, his memories and account were unreliable because of years of isolation and torture by the C.I.A., a former military interrogator testified Friday.Prosecutors say the statements that Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi prisoner, gave during interrogations in 2007 are crucial evidence against him.

A Chicago Police sergeant charged with two counts of official misconduct and one count of aggravated battery for grabbing a Park Ridge 14-year-old and pinning him down on the sidewalk last summer was found not guilty on all three counts Friday by Judge Paul Pavlus in Cook County Circuit Court.Asked if he had a comment on the ruling as he left the courtroom, Sgt.

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A current and former employee at a luxury hotel in Mexico where two Americans were found dead this week said managers of the resort ignored repeated signs of a possible gas leak and disabled carbon monoxide detectors to stop their alarms from disturbing guests.

Binance has suffered setbacks in two European markets after it announced plans to quit the Netherlands and came under investigation by French prosecutors.The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange said it was leaving the Dutch market after it failed to obtain a licence from the country's central bank.

This artist depiction shows Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, right, appearing in U.S. District Court in Boston, April 14, 2023.Teixeira has been indicted on federal felony charges.The Justice Department says Teixeira faces six counts in the indictment of willful retention and transmission of national defense information.

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A 71-year-old man was arrested Friday on suspicion of arson for igniting the massive Oak fire in Mariposa County last year that destroyed 127 residences and dozens of outbuildings, prosecutors and investigators announced.Arson investigators took Edward Frederick Wackerman, a longtime Mariposa resident, into custody without incident after a nearly yearlong extensive probe into the blaze that also consumed 19,244 acres of vegetation, officials said.

Top Justice Department officials on Friday are expected to announce the findings of a two-year long investigation of the policing practices of the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, people briefed on the matter said.The pattern or practice review followed the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in Floyd's murder.

A 54-year-old finance executive targeted a 14-year-old girl through her Instagram account, passed her off as his daughter on trips around the country, gave her drugs and raped her in New York City hotel rooms, prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney's office said Thursday.Prosecutors said that the executive, Michael Olson, had texted multiple other girls and that its investigation would continue.

The judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump's indictment on charges of illegally retaining national defense information issued an order on Thursday instructing any lawyer who wants to take part in the case to start the process of obtaining a security clearance to handle classified material by early next week.

Wearing a T-shirt that read Free Bird, an Arizona man who spent nearly 28 years on death row was freed on Thursday after a judge overturned his conviction on charges that he had sexually assaulted and murdered his girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter.Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid by the man, Barry Jones, for relief.

After three weeks of wrenching testimony, the prosecution and the defense delivered closing arguments on Thursday in the first phase of the federal trial of the man charged with carrying out the deadliest antisemitic attack in the country's history.Robert Bowers, 50, the man charged in the October 2018 killing of 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue, faces the possibility of a death sentence if convicted.

The 50 percent threshold in a poll can sometimes be distracting.When more than half of people give a certain answer, it often becomes the dominant message to emerge from the poll question.It is the answer that appears to have won.Yet the most important information may nonetheless be lurking elsewhere.

A tourist died after a man attacked her and a companion near Neuschwanstein castle in southern Germany, authorities said Thursday.The incident near the popular tourist attraction close to the Austrian border happened Wednesday afternoon.Prosecutors in nearby Kempten said the two women, age 21 and 22, had met the 30-year-old suspect who also had gone to the castle as a tourist for the first time shortly beforehand.

Ontario's top court has upheld convictions against Dellen Millard and Mark Smich for killing a 23-year-old woman, marking back-to-back appeals dismissed this week against the multiple murderers.The decision in the murder case of Laura Babcock comes a day after the Court of Appeal for Ontario upheld convictions against the two men for the 2013 murder of 32-year-old Tim Bosma.