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Fox News loses bid for Smartmatic voting-tech company’s records about Philippines bribery case

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Smartmatic won’t be required to give Fox News a trove of information about U.S. federal charges against the voting machine company’s co-founder over alleged bribery in the Philippines, a judge ruled Thursday. Fox News and parent Fox Corp. sought the information to help fight Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation suit

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California shorted prisoners on money for their release. It’s ending the practice

CalMatters California prisons are no longer withholding money they are supposed to give people at the time of their release, according to a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation memo obtained by CalMatters. The policy change is meant to ensure that thousands of people leaving California prisons will receive their full $200 “gate money” allowance

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The US government is closing a women’s prison and other facilities after years of abuse and decay

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and will idle six facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay and mismanagement, The Associated Press has learned. The agency informed employees and Congress on Thursday that it plans to shutter the

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ICE is looking for a new detention center in Blue California. The state probably can’t stop it

CalMatters Federal immigration authorities are looking for a potential new detention center in Northern California, an effort that alarms advocates and some Democratic state lawmakers as President-elect Donald Trump gears up to unleash his mass deportation plan. In August, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a request for information to identify additional detention bed

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Gunman who shot 2 kindergartners at a California school wrote about attack targeting children

Associated Press OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A gunman who critically wounded two kindergartners at a tiny religious school in Northern California was mentally ill and believed by targeting children he was carrying out “counter-measures” in response to America’s involvement in Middle East violence, a sheriff said Thursday. Glenn Litton used a “ruse” of pretending to

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