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Kemp signs Georgia law reviving prosecutor sanctions panel. Democrats fear it’s aimed at Fani Willis

Politics
Amanda Smith

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law Wednesday that lets a state commission begin operating with powers to discipline ...

Georgia pushes group to sanction prosecutors as Fani Willis faces removal from Trump case

Politics
Amanda Smith

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia commission with powers to discipline and remove prosecutors needs only Gov. Brian Kemp‘s approval before it can ...

Nazis stole Jewish performer’s artworks. They ended up in US museums

Entertainment
Laura Davis

New York prosecutors this week returned two modernist drawings Nazis seized over 80 years ago to relatives of a Jewish cabaret performer ...

Retail theft drives possible return to tough-on-crime policies in California

U.S.
Amanda Smith

California could be on the verge of a rightward correction in criminal-justice policy. The state was a leader in rewriting laws to ...