Prosecutors will have the chance to question Hale again, and defense attorneys reserved the right to ask for the testimony to ultimately be excluded.
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Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
7 Jan. 2026
Just a week before, Hassett had been excluded from a White House meeting in which the president decided to impose higher tariffs on Mexico, The New York Times reported.
The athletes are not employees in the legal sense and therefore cannot be prevented from leaving for another university.
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Jon Wilner,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
But a landmark land claims settlement in 1980 exempted Maine from federal Indian gaming laws, which has prevented the tribes from opening casinos on their lands.
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Center Square,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
In the wake of the seizure, Haitian authorities banned in-transit cargo through the Dominican Republic.
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Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2026
All dual-use items are banned from being exported to Japan for military use effective immediately, China's Ministry of Commerce said in a statement Tuesday.
At the time, ICE had requested local officials hold him in jail, but that request was denied, the affidavit said.
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Allison Gordon,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
The agency that was set to investigate before being denied access to evidence and case materials is called the Force Investigations Unit of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, part of the Department of Public Safety.
The audit listed multiple examples where the district’s actions may have discouraged fair competition and may have violated state law.
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Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Jan. 2026
New York’s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, issued early stay-at-home orders, imposed one of the first statewide mask mandates, and discouraged in-person church services.
Coming off a loss at home against Calgary on Saturday that halted their season-high six game winning streak, the Penguins were shut out for the fourth time this season.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
12 Jan. 2026
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor—who lost all of his royal titles and privileges in October in a groundbreaking decision by his older brother, King Charles—has been completely shut out of royal life.
Historically, the water’s purity was singular, giving life to a watershed that flourished because of a unique paucity of nutrients, a situation that hindered the pursuit of any single species that would dominate the rest.
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Amy Green,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
Normally, scent voices are mere whispers compared to the screams and angry shouts of humans, but in that section, certain sensitive plant species shrieked incessantly because of their proximity to plants that hindered their growth.
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