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Epstein signed a will 2 days before jailhouse suicide

By Jim Mustian, Curt Anderson, Associated Press

Court papers filed last week in the U.S. Virgin Islands list no details of beneficiaries but valued the estate at more than $577 million, including more than $56 million in cash.

N.Y. suspended its statute of limitations on child sex abuse. A flood of claims emerged

People who were sexually abused as children often need years to process what they’ve endured. By then, it’s often too late to take legal action against those responsible. But New York and a dozen other states are exploring changing the…

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De Blasio says justice served by firing officer in Eric Garner case

By Associated Press

The New York City mayor said Monday he hopes Commissioner James O'Neill's decision to fire Officer Daniel Pantaleo "brings some small measure of closure" to the family of Eric Garner.

California governor signs law to limit shootings by police

By Don Thompson, Associated Press

The measure will change California's existing lethal force standards to require that deadly force may only be used when necessary.

U.S. prisons chief removed after Epstein's death

By Michael Balsamo, Associated Press

The reassignment comes amid mounting evidence that guards at the chronically understaffed Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York abdicated their responsibility to keep the 66-year-old Epstein from killing himself.

WATCH: NYPD fires officer for 2014 death of Eric Garner

By Tom Hays, Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press

Police Commissioner James O'Neill's announced at a midday news conference that he had fired Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who is white, based on a recent recommendation of a department disciplinary judge.

Work resumes on Notre Dame Cathedral after fears of lead contamination

By Sara Burnett, Associated Press

Cleanup teams swept, sprayed and vacuumed neighboring streets Monday to scrub away any lead left over from the April blaze that decimated Notre Dame's roof and toppled its spire.

The 1619 Project details the legacy of slavery in America

By PBS NewsHour

Four hundred years ago this month, the first enslaved people from Africa arrived in the Virginia colony. To observe the anniversary of American slavery, The New York Times Magazine launched The 1619 Project to reframe America’s history through the lens…

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Trump wields sanctions hammer; experts wonder to what end

By Matthew Lee, Associated Press

The Trump administration is aggressively pursuing economic sanctions as a primary foreign policy tool to an extent unseen in decades, or perhaps ever. Many are questioning the results even as officials insist the penalties are achieving their aims.

Huge wildfires in the Arctic and far North send a planetary warning

By Nancy Fresco, The Conversation

More than 600 wildfires have consumed more than 2.4 million acres of forest across Alaska this summer, and fires are also raging in northern Canada and Siberia.