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Year: 2022

El Paso DA asks appellate court to rule on 409th District Court’s actions in Walmart shooting case

EL PASO, Texas — El Paso District Attorney Yvonne Rosales has asked the Texas 8th Court of Appeals to stop the Walmart shooting trial to review the legitimacy of the trial court’s orders. The document is called a “motion for stay of trial” and is asking the appellate court to decide whether or not 409th District Court Judge Sam Medrano’s

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NASA still won’t rename the James Webb Space Telescope, citing new investigation into namesake’s career

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Despite numerous calls from astronomers to rename its powerful new telescope, NASA officials stood by the naming of the James Webb Space Telescope before its launch. With the telescope nearly a year into its stint in space, the agency has released its chief historian’s investigation into the namesake of the telescope.

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DOJ announces special counsel for Trump-related Mar-a-Lago and January 6 criminal investigations

  (CNN) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday appointed a special counsel to oversee the criminal investigations into the retention of national defense information at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and parts of the January 6, 2021, insurrection. Both investigations implicate the conduct of Trump, who on Tuesday declared his candidacy in the 2024 presidential race, making him a

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Poland’s President visits the site of missile strike

The President of Poland said Thursday he is trying to support the Ukrainian President. That’s following a missile strike that killed two people on Tuesday. The Polish President says it was a quote “unintentional incident”. He adds, all three parties involved, Poland, Ukraine, and the U.S. are collecting information, calling Tuesday’s incident a “tragic” accident. “Nobody wanted to hurt anyone in

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One officer injured, another had his nose broken after responding to call at College Dropout bar

UPDATE 3:15 p.m.: El Paso police arrested 24-year-old Kyle Demetrius Ellison in connection to an assault against two of its officers. Police say the officers were assaulted after responding to a call early Friday morning. According to investigators, the assault happened when the officers tried to detain Ellison, who was believed to have been involved

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They were ‘amazing people and were loved so much’: Here’s what we know about the University of Idaho victims

By Christina Zdanowicz, Sara Smart and Eric Levenson, CNN A suspect has been taken into custody in connection with the investigation into the slayings of four University of Idaho students, two federal law enforcement sources confirmed to CNN. Xana Kernodle was one of the students who were killed in November in the house they shared

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