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Lachlan Murdoch Secures Control of Fox and News Corp, Ending Succession Fight

Lachlan Murdoch will take control of a new family trust in a deal worth $3.3 billion, ensuring that his father’s media empire will retain its conservative slant.

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Lachlan Murdoch, left, and Rupert Murdoch, center, arriving at court in Reno, Nevada last year. Lachlan has completed an agreement to take control of his family’s sprawling media empire.
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The Supreme Court Decision on ICE and Racial Profiling, Explained

The ruling allowed immigration agents to stop people for reasons that lower courts had deemed likely unconstitutional.

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Civil rights organizations and several U.S. citizens accused federal agents of engaging in “blatant racial profiling” by carrying out “indiscriminate immigration operations” with no individualized basis for suspicion.
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10 Killed and 61 Injured in Mexico After Train Crashes Into Bus

Accidents involving vehicles and trains have been increasing as the Mexican government has pushed to revitalize railroads and build new passenger lines.

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Emergency responders worked at the scene where a bus was hit by a freight train near Mexico City on Monday morning.
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Book Review: ‘Listening to the Law,’ by Amy Coney Barrett

In a studiously bland new book, “Listening to the Law,” the Supreme Court justice describes her legal philosophy and tries to sidestep the court’s recent controversies.

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Supreme Court justices “are referees, not kings, because they decide whether people have played by the rules rather than what the rules should be,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett writes in “Listening to the Law,” her new book about her time on the court.
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Arrested by Federal Agents, Some D.C. Residents Languished in Jail for Days

At least 11 defendants stayed in jail cells longer than the law allows, in what former prosecutors and criminal lawyers see as a violation of their constitutional rights.

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Courts are grappling with an influx of cases since National Guard troops and federal agents fanned out across the streets of Washington.
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