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Clancy Murder Trial: Judge Tells Struggling Jury to Keep Deliberating

Jurors said they were deadlocked after 18 hours, but the judge pushed them to keep trying to reach a verdict in the high-profile case of a mother who strangled her three children.

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Lindsay Clancy watching jury members on Monday.
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Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms

A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.

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The office of Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, published the whistle-blower report on voting by mail.
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Duane Davis Is Convicted of Orchestrating Tupac Shakur’s Murder

Duane Keith Davis, 63, was found guilty of first-degree murder after he went on an interview tour discussing his role in the 1996 drive-by shooting.

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Duane Keith Davis, right, and his lawyer, Michael Sanft, after a jury found Mr. Davis guilty. He faces up to life in prison.
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Who Is Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis, Convicted in Tupac Shakur Murder Trial?

Duane Keith Davis, once a high-ranking member of the South Side Compton Crips, long said he was in a Cadillac with the shooter in 1996. Then he began to recant his accounts.

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Duane Keith Davis was convicted of murder in the 1996 shooting death of Tupac Shakur.
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Supreme Court Allows Trump’s White House Ballroom Construction

Lower-court rulings would have blocked construction of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom after finding that the Trump administration should have first sought approval from Congress.

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The order from the Supreme Court was the second time in less than two weeks that the court weighed in on the project.
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