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DENVER — Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but because they are not humans, they have no legal right to seek their release, Colorado’s highest court said Tuesday. The Colorado Supreme Court ruling follows a similar court defeat in New York in 2022 for an elephant named Happy at the Bronx Zoo…
Four men from Chile have been charged in an ongoing nationwide investigation into burglaries at the homes of the rich and sometimes famous, according to court documents. The four have been linked to a Dec. 9 robbery in Hamilton County, Ohio, authorities say in the filing, a time and place that coincides with a raid…
After winning the presidential election, Donald Trump told Time magazine that he was still considering pardoning his supporters who were involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, but that he was particularly looking at those who were charged. of “non-violent” crimes. “I’m going to do it case by case, and if…
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday advocated pardons and commutations for about 1,500 charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, including some convicted of assaulting police officers. Trump, in one of the first presidential events of his second term, commuted the sentences of 14 prisoners and pardoned all others convicted of…
On the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland attempted to convey the enormous scope of law enforcement’s effort to bring rioters to justice, calling it “one of the largest, most complex and require more resources. investigations in our history.” With the stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump turned that…
This article is part of “Dealing with the dead” a series that investigates the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. The president of the University of North Texas Health Science Center will resign, four months after an NBC News investigation found the center had failed to contact families before using their loved ones’ bodies…
Netflix shares soared more than 10% on Tuesday after the company posted top-performing fourth-quarter results. The company surpassed 300 million paid memberships during the quarter, adding a record 19 million subscribers. Netflix said the growth was driven by its content slate, improved products and typical fourth-quarter seasonality. The company also shared that including “additional member…
We’ve all been there at some point, struggling with the spelling of EAGLES during an impromptu Eagles sing-along. It just wasn’t caught on video. During a winter weather preparation press conference in the hours before the Philadelphia Eagles’ snowy playoff victory over the Los Angeles Rams, Mayor Cherelle Parker had her moment of ruining the…
Garth Hudson, the band’s virtuoso keyboardist and multi-talented musician who drew on a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to rock standards like “Up on Cripple Creek,” “The Weight” and “Rag Mama Rag.” . He has died at the age of 87. Hudson was the oldest member and last surviving…