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Family of US immigration officer's victim hires top law firm for civil probe

The Daily Record - Dunn 15 Jan 2026
The family of the woman shot dead by a US immigration officer in Minneapolis has hired a law firm to probe the killing that sparked protests but which the White House says was self-defense ....
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DOJ: No civil rights probe

Calhoun Times 15 Jan 2026
IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT . MINNEAPOLIS ....
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Renee Nicole Good's family hires George Floyd legal team for civil investigation after fatal ICE shooting

Fox News 15 Jan 2026
... is now represented by the firm who represented the family of George Floyd in a new civil investigation announced Wednesday.
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Beirut's Commodore Hotel, a haven for journalists during Lebanon's civil war, shuts down

Newsday 15 Jan 2026
BEIRUT — During Lebanon’s civil war, the Commodore Hotel in western Beirut's Hamra district became iconic among the foreign press corps ... The Commodore endured for decades after the 15-year civil ...
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Sri Lanka: UN Finds Systemic Sexual Violence During Civil War

Human Rights Watch 15 Jan 2026
Successive Sri Lankan governments have failed to credibly investigate and prosecute international crimes related to the 26-year civil war between government forces and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights ...

Morning Times 14 Jan 2026
Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement. Her death was announced Tuesday by the Claudette ....
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DOJ says there's no basis for criminal civil rights investigation in Good's killing

Waco Tribune-Herald 14 Jan 2026
About half a dozen federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned and several supervisors in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division gave notice of their departures, people familiar with the matter said ....
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Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil ...

Waco Tribune-Herald 14 Jan 2026
Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86 ....
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Claudette Colvin, who refused to move bus seats at start of civil rights movement, dies

Waco Tribune-Herald 14 Jan 2026
Colvin was arrested months before Rosa Parks gained international fame for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus ....
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Justice Department sees no basis for civil rights probe in Minnesota ICE shooting, official says

Ellensburg Daily Record 14 Jan 2026
A top Justice Department official says there is not currently any basis to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the killing of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis. The decision to keep the ....
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