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Donald Trump testifies for less than 3 minutes in defamation trial and is rebuked by judge (apnews.com)

He testified for under three minutes. But former President Donald Trump still broke a judge’s rules on what he could tell a jury about writer E. Jean Carroll’s sexual assault and defamation allegations, and he left the courtroom Thursday bristling to the spectators: “This is not America.”...

Alaska charter company pays $900k after guide caused wildfire by not properly extinguishing campfire (apnews.com)

An Alaska fishing guide company has paid $900,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. government alleging one of its guides started a wildfire in 2019, the U.S. attorney’s office for Alaska said in a statement Wednesday....

A US Congressional delegation affirms bipartisan support for Taiwan in first visit since election (apnews.com)

A bipartisan delegation from the United States Congress reaffirmed support for Taiwan during a visit Thursday following its election of a new president. The delegation’s visit is the first by U.S. lawmakers to the island since the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party won a third-straight term in the Jan. 13...

West Virginia GOP majority pushes contentious bills arming teachers, restricting bathrooms, books (apnews.com)

West Virginia’s Republican-dominated Legislature pushed forward a slate of contentious bills Wednesday that would arm teachers, allow people to sue libraries over books that offend them and restrict where transgender kids can use the bathroom at school....

A Texas school's punishment of a Black student who wears his hair in locs is going to trial (apnews.com)

A judge ordered Wednesday that a trial be held next month to determine whether a Black high school student in Texas can continue being punished by his district for refusing to change a hairstyle he and his family say is protected by a new state law....

Global warming was primary cause of unprecedented Amazon drought, study finds (apnews.com)

Human-induced global warming, and not El Niño, was the primary driver of last year’s severe drought in the Amazon that sent rivers to record lows, required deliveries of food and drinking water to hundreds of river communities and killed dozens of endangered dolphins, researchers said Wednesday....

Mother of disabled girl who was allegedly raped in Starbucks bathroom sues company, school district (apnews.com)

The mother of an intellectually disabled girl who was allegedly led from school grounds by three male students and sexually assaulted in a Starbucks bathroom and a nearby empty building filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing Starbucks, Pittsburgh Public Schools and a property management company of negligence....

Oregon jury awards $85 million to 9 victims of deadly 2020 wildfires (apnews.com)

An Oregon jury awarded $85 million Tuesday to nine victims of wildfires that ravaged the state in 2020, the latest verdict in a series of legal proceedings that are expected to put the utility PacifiCorp on the hook for billions of dollars over its liability for the deadly blazes....

With Oregon facing rampant public drug use, lawmakers backpedal on pioneering decriminalization law (apnews.com)

Democratic lawmakers in Oregon on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping new bill that would undo a key part of the state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law, a recognition that public opinion has soured on the measure amid rampant public drug use during the fentanyl crisis....

Disney asks for delay in DeSantis appointees' lawsuit, as worker describes a distracted district (apnews.com)

Disney this week requested a second delay in a state court case involving its legal battle with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees over who controls Walt Disney World’s governing district, as the company accused them and the governor’s office of stonewalling requests for documents that are part of the litigation....

Filipino fisherman to Chinese coast guard in disputed shoal: `This is not your territory. Go away.' (apnews.com)

A Filipino fishing boat captain protested on Tuesday the Chinese coast guard’s aggression in the disputed South China Sea, where he asserted that Chinese officers drove him and his men away from a disputed shoal and ordered them to dump their catch in the sea....

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