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Reporting Highlights Porous Regulations: Despite being one of the first states to ban the sale of intoxicating hemp, Colorado has not adopted regulations that other states have to keep hemp products off shelves. Health Concerns: Regulators found hemp-derived vapes sold in Colorado marijuana dispensaries contaminated with a banned toxic chemical that can cause cancer.   Independent Testing: The Denver Gazette and ProPublica bought 14 vapes at dispensaries and found three contained compounds and chemical residues that experts said were indicative of hemp. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. The owner of a marijuana…

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Listen to this articleEstimated 5 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.Longtime fugitive Ryan Wedding sought a court order to prevent his arrest in Mexico’s Sinaloa state nearly a year before he was finally taken into U.S. custody last week, according to legal records obtained by CBC News.The documents, first reported by Sinaloan news organization Riodoce, suggest that Wedding — a Canadian who is accused of leading a cocaine-smuggling network linked to the Sinaloa cartel — believed that Mexican authorities…

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When the justices hold their private conference on Friday, Feb. 20, the petitions for review that they are slated to consider will include one from President Donald Trump, asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on the 2023 verdict against him in a civil suit brought by E. Jean Carroll. Trump calls the lawsuit “facially implausible” and “politically motivated”; Carroll urges the court to deny Trump’s petition, telling the justices that the verdict would stand regardless of their ruling. Carroll, a journalist known for writing a popular advice column for Elle for 27 years, filed her lawsuit in 2022. She…

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Home Daily News Plot to kill Indiana judge thickens: Prosecutors… Judicial Security Plot to kill Indiana judge thickens: Prosecutors allege pending domestic violence case as motive By Shirley Henderson January 26, 2026, 11:30 am CST Tippecanoe County Superior Court Judge Steven P. Meyer was shot in the arm Sunday afternoon inside his Lafayette, Indiana, home. (Photo from the Tippecanoe County, Indiana, website) Police arrested five people linked to a motorcycle club with street gang affiliation in a conspiracy to kill an Indiana judge, centered around an upcoming domestic violence case, according to prosecutors. On Jan. 18, Tippencanoe County Superior Court…

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Discover Abu Dhabi’s chef collaborations during MENA’s 50 Best Restaurants week, from Japanese-Jordanian omakase to Mediterranean menusAbu Dhabi is about to eat very, very well. The Middle East and North Africa’s 50 Best Restaurants returns to the capital this January and February, and it is bringing some serious culinary star power with it. Ahead of the MENA’S 50 Best Restaurants awards ceremony on February 3, a week of dining events will roll out across the city, turning Abu Dhabi into a playground for food lovers who like their dinners memorable.From January 31 to February 5, expect collaborative menus, chef takeovers and…

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On Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump took the podium at his inauguration and promised to halt unauthorized border crossings and “begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens to the places from which they came.” ProPublica and The Texas Tribune spent the first 12 months of Trump’s second term examining in real time how this drive to remove immigrants unfolded across the nation. We collected data the government wouldn’t provide or didn’t track, including how many U.S. citizens had been held by immigration agents. We investigated the crowd-control methods federal agents used in Los Angeles and…

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Iranian officials reached out to the wider Middle East on Wednesday over the threat of a possible U.S. military strike on the country, while the value of Iran’s currency reached a new low a month after the start of protests that spread nationwide and sparked a bloody crackdown.Two nations, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have signaled they won’t allow their airspace to be used for any attack. But America has moved the USS Abraham Lincoln and several guided missile destroyers into the region, which can be used to launch attacks from the sea.It remains unclear what U.S. President…

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The Supreme Court has made a mess of the law concerning the Second Amendment. Two years ago, in the last Supreme Court decision about the Second Amendment, United States v. Rahimi, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in a concurring opinion noted how “lower courts are struggling” with recent precedent concerning this amendment and that “confusion plagues the lower courts.”   There are two cases on the docket this term regarding gun laws and they likely will exacerbate, not clear up, the confusion. The court could – and should – solve much of this problem by treating the Second Amendment like other rights in…

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