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Idaho prosecutors ask Bryan Kohberger be barred from contacting his victims’ families for 99 years

Idaho prosecutors have requested that convicted quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger be barred from contacting his victims’ families for nearly a 100 years, court documents show. Prosecutors filed a request for the no contact order on July 17, arguing that since the 30-year-old confessed to the killings he should be kept from reaching out to anybody...

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D.A. Who Led Etan Patz Case Says Conviction Reversal Came as a Shock

Cyrus Vance prosecuted Pedro Hernandez twice. An appeals court overturned the conviction, ruling that the trial judge should not have let jurors consider an improper confession.

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Cyrus Vance said he respected the decision, but was “surprised and saddened for the Patz family.”
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Trump announces Japan trade deal after weeks of fraught negotiations

Tokyo’s failure to secure a US trade deal sooner had caused political uproar and economic uncertainty in Japan, with prime minister Ishiba reportedly considering his future

Donald Trump has announced a trade deal with Japan, potentially resolving weeks of fraught negotiations between the two allies which had caused political uproar and economic uncertainty in Tokyo.

“We just completed a massive Deal with Japan,” the US president announced in a post online, adding “Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 Billion Dollars into the United States.”

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© Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Reuters

© Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Reuters

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Obama breaks silence on Trump’s ‘outrageous’ call to prosecute him

Office of ex-US president breaks precedent and warns that allegations of attempted ‘coup’ are ‘attempt at distraction’

Barack Obama has broken his silence on calls from Donald Trump for him to be prosecuted by unequivocally rejecting his successor’s accusations that he tried to engineer a “coup” following Trump’s 2016 election victory by “manufacturing” evidence of Russian interference.

Obama’s office took the unusual step of issuing an emphatic refutation after Trump told reporters that his predecessor had “[tried] to lead a coup” against him and was guilty of “treason” over intelligence assessments suggesting that Russia had intervened to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton in the campaign.

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© Photograph: Erin Hooley/AP

© Photograph: Erin Hooley/AP

© Photograph: Erin Hooley/AP

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