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Phoenix Suns and Mercury owner Robert Sarver seeking buyers for NBA and WNBA teams after hostile work environment investigation

By Homero De la Fuente, CNN Embattled basketball team owner Robert Sarver, suspended after a recent independent investigation found he engaged in hostile, racially insensitive and inappropriate behavior, announced Wednesday he will sell the NBA’s Phoenix Suns and the WNBA’s Mercury. The NBA last week suspended Sarver for a year and fined him $10 million

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Former officer who held down George Floyd’s legs gets 3 years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter

By Eric Levenson, Brad Parks and Omar Jimenez, CNN The former Minneapolis Police officer who held down George Floyd’s legs in May 2020 was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday on a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death. Thomas Lane, who is currently in federal prison for violating Floyd’s

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Washington, DC, approves creation of new agency to provide services for migrants arriving from other states

By Aya Elamroussi and Adrienne Winston, CNN The Washington, DC, city council voted Tuesday to create a new office focusing on the recent arrival of migrants who were sent to the district from states whose leaders oppose the Biden administration’s stance on immigration policies. The move aims to improve response to the thousands of migrants

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Pistols used by Milwaukee police can discharge without the trigger being pulled, police union says in lawsuit

By Andy Rose, CNN A Milwaukee police officers’ union on Monday filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging that the pistols used as the department’s main duty weapon can discharge without the trigger being pulled. “The [SIG Sauer] P320 had known issues involving discharge without a trigger pull at the time the City purchased them,”

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Legal group files class action lawsuit on behalf of advocacy group and migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard

By Amir Vera, Rob Frehse and Zenebou Sylla, CNN Lawyers for Civil Rights, a non-profit immigrant advocacy group that represents more than 30 of the nearly 50 migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Alianza Americas and other migrants, according to a news release from the organization. Two planes

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Bexar County Sheriff announces investigation into how migrants went from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard

CNN By Amy Simonson and Paul P. Murphy, CNN A Texas sheriff said Monday evening his agency will open an investigation into the transportation of 48 Venezuelan migrants from the state to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, last week. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, a Democrat, told reporters at a Monday news conference that his understanding was

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Judge blocks Thursday’s execution by lethal injection of Alabama death row inmate who says he requested to die by nitrogen hypoxia

By Dakin Andone, CNN A federal judge has granted an order prohibiting Alabama from executing a death row inmate by lethal injection this week after he asserted he chose to die by nitrogen hypoxia — an untested and unproven execution method Alabama officials say they’re not ready to use. Without the injunction, the inmate, Alan

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DOJ investigating allegations that Kansas City police racially discriminated against Black officers

KMBC By Josh Campbell and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The US Department of Justice is investigating whether the Kansas City Police Department in Missouri engaged in a pattern of racial discrimination against Black officers, according to a letter sent to the agency Monday. “Our investigation is based on information suggesting that KCPD may be engaged in

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