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The Republican police reform bill stalled in the Senate on Wednesday after Senate Democrats voted against starting debate on the measure and demanded bipartisan talks. Senators voted 55-to-45 in a procedural vote on whether to initiate debate on the police reform bill, leaving. Republicans short of the 60 votes needed to advance the bill. Senator …

One of the police officers involved in the fatal shooting in March of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor has been fired, the Louisville Metro Police Department announced Tuesday. The Kentucky city’s police department released a termination letter to Officer Brett Hankison calling his actions “a shock to the conscience,” more than three months after Hankison shot Taylor, an …

Justice Department officials will be meeting with multiple state attorneys general this Friday to discuss “next steps” in a potential antitrust case against Google, according to multiple reports. The meeting, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, will take place virtually between federal and state officials. On the agenda will be the scope …

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a federal court to end the case against former national-security adviser Michael Flynn on Wednesday. After the Justice Department dropped its case against Flynn, the presiding judge appointed a third party to “to present arguments in opposition” to the DOJ’s decision. The Wednesday ruling by the Circuit Court …

A federal prosecutor will testify to Congress on Wednesday that the Justice Department exerted “heavy pressure” on prosecutors in Roger Stone’s criminal trial to request a more lenient sentence for Stone. Aaron Zelinsky, an assistant U.S. attorney in Maryland who was formerly assigned to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, will testify to the House Judiciary …

The Justice Department and a group of state attorneys general will meet on Friday to discuss the scope of a possible antitrust suit against Alphabet Inc.’s Google, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Federal and state officials will discuss how best to proceed with the suit, although it is not yet clear how many states …

Cineplex, the embattled Canadian movie theater chain, is playing defense. Closing its doors because of the pandemic months ago, Cineplex has adopted a ‘poison pill’ or a stockholder rights plan,’ which is a defensive action against hostile and low-priced takeover attempts that take advantage of weakened stock prices. The Toronto-based company said its three-year plan …

Camila Mendes is defending her recently-accused-of-sexual-assault “Riverdale” co-stars. “Someone saying to me that somebody would do such a thing to prove a point? It seems so trivial,” Mendes said on SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show” Tuesday. “You really went to that extent? To damage not only the integrity of the #MeToo movement, but to potentially …

Miley Cyrus is no longer drinking or smoking weed, she revealed in a new interview on Tuesday. “I’ve been sober sober for the past six months,” the pop star told Variety, adding that the reason behind her lifestyle change  — at first — was “just about this vocal surgery.” In November, Cyrus, 27, revealed she …

JoJo Fletcher is rolling up her sleeves and getting to work in quarantine. The former “Bachelorette,” who recently postponed her 2020 wedding due to the coronavirus pandemic, told Page Six on Monday that she and fiancé Jordan Rodgers have been busying themselves with projects at home. “Jordan likes to do these projects with me, so …