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‘A steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action': Dad defends Stanford sex offender

The letter by Brock Turner's father has drawn outrage, but it apparently helped convince a judge to sentence the former star swimmer to just six months in jail.

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Trump calls scolding by Newt Gingrich 'inappropriate'

Donald Trump said Monday it was "inappropriate" for Newt Gingrich to demand he drop the subject of an American judge's ethnicity and start acting like "a potential leader of the United States." But Trump did not comment on the other Republican leaders' widespread call for him to lay off the jurist, a sign that the GOP presidential candidate doesn't want to blow up the fragile truce he has struck with them.

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‘You took away my worth': A victim’s powerful message to her Stanford rapist

The 23-year-old delivered what a district attorney called "the most eloquent, powerful and compelling piece of victim advocacy that I've seen in my 20 years as a prosecutor."

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A major Native American site is being looted. Will Obama risk armed conflict to save it?

The president and Republican lawmakers debate how to protect the Utah land known as the Bears Ears.

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A friend thinks O.J. Simpson may confess to murders

Closure may not be possible, but understanding is.

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All-American swimmer found guilty of sexually assaulting unconscious woman on Stanford campus

Prosecutors called Brock Turner a "predator" and the "face of campus sexual assault." But his defense attorney said Turner was just a college kid who committed a mistake, not a crime.

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Trump’s claim that Elizabeth Warren made a ‘quick killing’ in foreclosures

Trump claims that the Massachusetts senator is a hypocrite because she also engaged in real estate speculation. We check the records.

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GOP worries rise amid hostile Trump comments on Latinos and Muslims

The presumptive Republican nominee says a Muslim judge might not be fair to him.

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Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war, again. Guess who's winning?

Annoyed with cars cutting through their neighborhoods, Waze impostors report made-up wrecks and speed traps in attempts to subvert the popular traffic app.

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On "Game of Thrones," characters learn to work around their physical and emotional wounds.

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The photos capture a champion ravaged by age and Parkinson's, but the spirit was strong.

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Turkish officials anticipate 250,000 divers will visit the Airbus each year.

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