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Sam Bankman-Fried Won’t Face a Second Criminal Trial
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Sam Bankman-Fried Won’t Face a Second Criminal Trial

Federal prosecutors said Friday that they wouldn’t try Sam Bankman-Fried on additional criminal charges that weren’t part of the fall trial that resulted in the FTX founder’s conviction for fraud related to the collapse of his crypto exchange.The move, announced in a letter to the presiding judge, clears the way for the FTX founder to be sentenced on March 28. A second trial would have delayed that sentencing, and Bankman-Fried already faces the possibility of decades in prison.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Behind the Campaign to Take Down Harvard’s Claudine Gay
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Behind the Campaign to Take Down Harvard’s Claudine Gay

From the time she began carving her path through the most elite private schools in the nation to the presidency of Harvard University, Claudine Gay earned plaudits and promotions. She also amassed detractors who were skeptical of her work and qualifications and outraged by what they saw as the political decisions she made as an increasingly powerful administrator. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Maine Becomes Second State to Bar Trump From 2024 Primary Ballot
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Maine Becomes Second State to Bar Trump From 2024 Primary Ballot

Updated Dec. 28, 2023 8:06 pm ETMaine’s top election official on Thursday barred Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s primary ballot, marking the second state to knock the Republican former president off its ballot and escalating a national legal effort to disqualify him from office.In a 34-page written decision, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, said Trump isn’t qualified to hold office because of his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Michigan Supreme Court Rejects Effort to Keep Trump Off Primary Ballot
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Michigan Supreme Court Rejects Effort to Keep Trump Off Primary Ballot

Updated Dec. 27, 2023 10:08 am ETDonald Trump can appear on Michigan’s 2024 presidential primary ballot, the state’s top court ruled Wednesday. The Michigan Supreme Court declined to take up the question of Trump’s eligibility under the state’s election laws. In a one-paragraph ruling, the majority wrote the court was “not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this Court.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Trump’s Ballot Eligibility Adds to Voting Battles in 2024
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Trump’s Ballot Eligibility Adds to Voting Battles in 2024

Updated Dec. 22, 2023 5:11 pm ETThe fast-moving legal drama over Donald Trump’s fitness for the presidential ballot adds to a growing pile of court battles that promises to be a central story line in the 2024 election. Even before Colorado’s top court deemed Trump an insurrectionist and therefore ineligible to hold office, other courts were considering voting cases that could affect millions of people. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Trysts, Love Triangles and Flowing Hair. The Plot Twist: It’s About Horses
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Trysts, Love Triangles and Flowing Hair. The Plot Twist: It’s About Horses

Dec. 17, 2023 10:17 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)MEDORA, N. D.—Chris Kman used a long-lens camera to scour sprawling grasslands tucked among snow-dusted buttes in Theodore Roosevelt National Park for signs of what she calls her family. She was most excited to spot Flax, who’s been hard to find lately.“He’s the Fabio of this park,” said her husband, Gary, 61, noting the sorrel horse’s noble bearing and flowing mane.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
How One Jewish American Family Wrestles Over Israel
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How One Jewish American Family Wrestles Over Israel

Emanuelle Sippy, a 20-year-old junior at Princeton University who heads the campus’s Alliance of Jewish Progressives, came to believe in recent years that Israel is an apartheid state guilty of committing human-rights abuses. The war in Gaza has reinforced her views, and she has responded by participating in vigils, walkouts and other actions demanding a cease-fire.Sippy’s father, David Wirtschafter—a Reform rabbi in Lexington, Ky., who attended rabbinical school in Jerusalem—aches when he hears some of her harshest criticisms of Israel. And Sippy’s grandmother, Carol Wirtschafter, who lived with her husband and children in Jerusalem during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, laments that Sippy has lost hope for the country.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe8...