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
After the companies were banned from participating in the Mass Save Program, Cleggett and his coconspirators formed other companies to obtain further funding.
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Colleen Cronin,
Boston Herald,
14 Jan. 2026
The experts analyzed the videos with us, explaining when and how officers used dangerous tactics that appeared to go against their training or that have been banned under the Department of Homeland Security’s use-of-force policy.
The momager and Hunter denied the allegations laid out in the lawsuit and in the summer of 2023, Tiffany countersued for $30 million, per Insider, saying the mothers of the teenagers were trying to extort her.
In each case, agents shot at drivers or into moving cars – a practice that has largely been discouraged by law enforcement because of risks to public safety.
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Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
14 Jan. 2026
Malinin’s parents, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, both gifted skaters who competed in the Olympics for Uzbekistan, discouraged him from toddling onto the ice as a boy.
Women were shut out from the top 100 for the third straight year.
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Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
14 Jan. 2026
This could be a bad deal for America’s aspiring homebuyers and for folks shut out of home ownership for now who cherish the prospect of living in a house, even as a rental.
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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