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Live updates - US indicts former Cuban president Raúl Castro over 1996 downing of planes. Follow live updates. The indictment charges Castro with murder, conspiracy to kill US nationals, and destruction of aircraft.

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Officers who defended Capitol from rioters sue to block payouts from $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' fund -- The officers' attorneys filed the federal lawsuit a day after Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the fund's creation during a congressional hearing.

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Stephen Colbert's long goodbye is coming to an end, leaving a void -- When CBS announced that the show would end, the network said it was for economic reasons but others have expressed skepticism that President Trump's criticism of the show had nothing to do with it.

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With exclamation points and indignation, a federal judge from South Natick infuriates Trump

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Platner earns backing of influential, big-spending Democratic veterans group in Maine Senate race

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Texas judge demands medical records of trans youth, and Rhode Island Hospital says it will comply

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In Texas, Trump made one of the dumbest political decisions of his presidencies

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Barney Frank, groundbreaking gay congressman who coauthored key Wall Street legislation, has died - Frank died Tuesday evening in his Ogunquit, Maine, home of complications from congestive heart failure. He was 86.

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Gun control, but for robots: Lawmakers want to make Mass. first state to ban outfitting drones with weapons -- The Massachusetts House is primed to pass a bill that would Massachusetts the first state in the country to put guardrails on weaponizing drones and other unmanned devices.

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YVONNE ABRAHAM - You're headed to work. A man lies at the bottom of a T station escalator. What do you do? You want to think you'd do more.

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Where Trump falters with Republicans — and where he holds steady, according to a new poll

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Former political rivals head to rematch in Alabama governor's race and runoffs for US Senate seat

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Oregon voters reject Democrats' gas tax increase as Iran war causes prices to soar

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Representative Thomas Massie loses Kentucky GOP primary to Ed Gallrein in another victory for Trump

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Shapiro-backed Democrats win House primaries in Pennsylvania swing districts the party hopes to flip

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Gallrein defeats Massie in Kentucky, furthering Trump's hold on GOP. See how the day unfolded.

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