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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday wrestled over whether Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed was too late in bringing a civil rights lawsuit against state officials who had rejected his requests for DNA testing of crime-scene evidence that he hoped would help exonerate him in his high-profile murder …

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By Rory Carroll LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former Los Angeles Angels communications director Eric Kay, who in February was found guilty of distributing a controlled substance to late Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, was sentenced to 22 years in prison on Tuesday, the Department of Justice said. Skaggs, 27, died on July 1, 2019 while on …

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By Dawn Chmielewski and Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) -As online gaming platform Roblox Corp confronts a lawsuit alleging it enabled a California girl’s exploitation, its chief scientist said finding dangerous content in the company’s virtual world is nothing like spotting it in video. “It’s such a challenge to moderate 3D,” said Morgan McGuire in an interview …

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By Jack Queen (Reuters) -A Connecticut jury on Tuesday ended its second full day of deliberations without a decision on how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay families of victims for falsely claiming the Sandy Hook mass shooting in 2012 was a hoax. Deliberations will resume on Wednesday morning in Waterbury, Connecticut, not far …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Kevin Spacey’s lawyer on Tuesday challenged the memory of Anthony Rapp, on the stand in U.S. court to testify in his civil lawsuit against the Oscar-winning actor for making an unwanted sexual advance in 1986 when Rapp was 14. Spacey, now 63, has denied Rapp’s accusations and sexual assault allegations by …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a claim brought by a Black Texas death row inmate who said he did not receive a fair trial for the killings of his white wife and two children – crimes he does not deny committing – because three white jurors in his first trial expressed …

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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to reject former President Donald Trump’s bid to again empower an independent arbiter to vet classified records seized from his Florida home as part of his legal battle against investigators probing his handling of sensitive government records. Trump filed an …

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By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s approval rating stayed close to the lowest level of his presidency this week, a dark sign for his Democratic Party’s prospects in the Nov. 8 midterm elections, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday found. The two-day national poll found that 40% of Americans approve …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Tuesday finalized a rule it said would fix the so-called family glitch in the Affordable Care Act that priced many people out of health insurance and would help over a million Americans. The fix, first proposed by the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue …

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