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After lobbying, Catholic Church received at least $1.4 billion in virus aid
The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.
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Q&A: US government not as prolific an executioner as states
Executions carried out by federal authorities have stopped, restarted and stopped again for long stretches since the first one in 1790, when U.S. marshals hanged a mariner in Maine for fatally shooting the captain of a slave ship.
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Trump commutes longtime friend Roger Stone's prison sentence
President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone, intervening in extraordinary fashion in a criminal case that was central to the Russia investigation and that concerned the president's own conduct.
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Postal Service: Hundreds of Wisconsin ballots hit snags
Hundreds of absentee ballots in Wisconsin's April primary election never made it to voters or went uncounted because of postmark problems, the U.S. Postal Service has reported.
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Justice Dept. seeks to overturn order halting execution
The Justice Department filed an emergency motion with a federal appeals court on Saturday seeking to move forward with the first federal execution in nearly two decades.
