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The Department of Justice announced on Friday it has resolved a biased policing investigation of California’s Antioch Police Department, where officers’ racist texts sparked outrage and blowback. The city and its police have agreed to hire a consultant to review its policies, its officer training, and its use-of-force incidents to …

WASHINGTON — A judge rejected a request from a Jan. 6 defendant to attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration after the man was invited by a former member of Congress, according to a court order released Friday. The defendant, Russell Taylor, was accused of organizing a group of “fighters” to travel …

The Miami Heat have suspended star small forward Jimmy Butler for seven games, the team announced Friday, and said it will listen to trade offers. The Heat said in an X post that Butler’s suspension was because of conduct that has hurt the team throughout the season. “We have suspended …

Sprinter Fred Kerley was arrested after an altercation with South Florida police that ended with the two-time Olympic medalist hit with a stun gun, officials said Friday. Kerley, 29, was speaking with officers at 11:22 p.m. on Thursday near 100 9th St. “about his vehicle parked nearby” when his “demeanor …

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, we dive into how Mike Johnson managed to survive a tight re-election bid …

The judge presiding over the hush money case against President-elect Donald Trump on Friday denied his bid to dismiss the case and said he’ll sentence him on Jan. 10, ten days before his inauguration as the 47th president. Judge Juan Merchan said Trump can appear in person or virtually for …

A former hospital worker was arrested in connection with a late 2024 incident that left three babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Virginia’s Henrico Doctors’ Hospital with “unexplainable fractures,” according to officials. Henrico Police identified 26-year-old Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, of Chesterfield County, as a suspect during an investigation …

JetBlue has agreed to pay a $2 million penalty after federal regulators charged the U.S. carrier with operating multiple chronically delayed flight routes. The penalty is the first time the U.S. Department of Transportation has fined an airline for engaging in unrealistic scheduling practices that it says can harm both …

President Joe Biden began his term in the White House with a broad promise to protect transgender Americans against Republican policies that painted them as a threat to children and sought to push them out of public life. “Your president has your back,” Biden assured trans people in his first …

Thousands of miles from Washington, where the funeral of Jimmy Carter is set for next week, an Indian village named after the former U.S. president fondly remembers his visit almost 50 years ago, paying tribute. A one-term president from 1977, Carter, who died on Sunday at age 100, is to be given a state funeral at the Washington …