President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs.
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A frigid storm drops rare snow on Houston and New Orleans as Florida readies plows in the Panhandle
A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow that closed highways, grounded nearly all flights and canceled school for more than a million students more accustomed to hurricane dismissals than snow days.
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Trump administration throws out policies limiting migrant arrests at sensitive spots like churches
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President Donald Trump on his first full day in office Tuesday defended his decision to grant clemency to people convicted of assaulting police officers during the 2021 attack on the Capitol and suggested there could be a place in U.S. politics for the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, extremist groups whose leaders were convicted of seditious conspiracy against the U.S.
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A lawsuit alleging excessive force against 2020 protesters in Oregon has been settled, ACLU says
A lawsuit alleging that law enforcement agents sent by President Donald Trump to protect a federal courthouse in 2020 used excessive force against racial justice protesters has been settled, the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon said Tuesday.
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US border patrol agent was fatally shot in Vermont near Canada
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Virginia Democrats pass constitutional amendments blasted by Republicans
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Elephants can't pursue their release from a Colorado zoo because they're not human, court says
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White House cheers release of two Americans freed in a swap with Taliban brokered by Biden, Qatar
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