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  1. Clones help famous elm tree named Herbie live on, for now
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2009 file photo, Frank Knight, 101, of Yarmouth, Maine, stands in front of an elm tree known as "Herbie" in Yarmouth. Knight took care of the tree for about 50 years while working as the Yarmouth tree warden. The tree, estimated to be 217 years old, was cut down Jan. 19, 2010 after suffering numerous bouts of Dutch elm disease. "Herbie" may be gone, but he'll live on in cloned trees that are now being made available to the public. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) [STEVEN SENNE | AP]
    What was once a 213-year-old tree will now be available for purchase — in the form of thousands of cloned versions of the tree once named ‘Herbie.’
  2. Journalists visited immigration courts across U.S. and found nonstop chaos.
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    The Stewart Detention Center is seen through the front gate, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Lumpkin, Ga. The rural town is about 140 miles southwest of Atlanta and next to the Georgia-Alabama state line. The town’s 1,172 residents are outnumbered by the roughly 1,650 male detainees that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said were being held in the detention center in late November. (AP Photo/David Goldman) [DAVID GOLDMAN | AP]
    The Associated Press sent journalists throughout the country to immigration court.
  3. Pam Bondi to join Donald Trump’s impeachment legal defense: AP
    Jan. 17• Nation & World
    In this Feb. 22, 2018 file photo, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, speaks to reporters outside the West Wing in Washington. President Donald Trump's legal team will include Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general, former Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, the former independent counsel who led the Whitewater investigation into President Bill Clinton, according to a person familiar with the matter. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) [J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE | AP]
    The former Florida attorney general reportedly will join former Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, the independent counsel who investigated President Bill Clinton.
  4. Trump’s trial begins, senators vowing ‘impartial justice’
    Jan. 17• Nation & World
    In this image from video, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., escort Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts into the Senate chamber in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. [AP]
    The U.S. Senate opened the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump Thursday.
  5. Virgin Islands allege Jeffrey Epstein trafficked girls as young as 12 as recently as 2018
    Jan. 16• Nation & World
    This July 9, 2019, file photo taken from video, shows an aerial view of Little Saint James Island, in the U. S. Virgin Islands, a property purchased by Jeffery Epstein more than two decades ago. A lawsuit filed Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, by prosecutors in the Virgin Islands says multimillionaire sex offender Jeffery Epstein used two private islands, including Little Saint James, in the U.S. territory to engage in a nearly two-decade conspiracy to traffic and abuse girls. (AP Photo/Gianfranco Gaglione, File) [GIANFRANCO GAGLIONE | AP]
    A lawsuit seeks forfeiture of the private islands, valued by managers of Epstein’s estate at more than $86 million, because of their use in alleged crimes.
  6. Giuliani associate: Trump had knowledge of Ukraine pressure
    Jan. 16• Nation & World
    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., joined at left by Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., meets with reporters as the House prepares to send the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) [J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE | AP]
    Lev Parnas made several potentially explosive claims in a televised interview Wednesday night with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.
  7. Senate takes over Trump’s impeachment after House handoff
    Jan. 16• Nation & World
    In this image from video, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks after the Senate received the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump from the House of Representatives at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday. (Senate Television via AP) [AP]
    The President complained anew Wednesday that it was all a “hoax,” even as fresh details emerged about his efforts in Ukraine.
  8. Supreme Court considers age discrimination case out of Bay Pines VA
    Jan. 15• Pinellas
    The C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center at Bay Pines VA Healthcare System. (Times | 2014)
    The chief justice dropped an ‘Okay, Boomer’ reference during oral arguments in the case of a pharmacist who accused the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System of age discrimination.
  9. Virginia moves to brink of becoming 38th state to ratify ERA
    Jan. 15• Nation & World
    An Equal Rights Amendment supporters yell encouragement to two legislators as they walk down a hallway inside the state Capitol in Richmond, Va., Tuesday. A House committee approved a resolution Tuesday, to ratify the state's Equal Rights Amendment, which advocates hope will become the next amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The 13-9 vote split along party lines, with all Democrats supporting it and all Republicans opposing it.(Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP) [BOB BROWN | AP]
    It is seen as a momentous victory by women’s rights advocates even though it is far from certain the measure will ever be added to the U.S. Constitution.
  10. Vladimir Putin engineers shakeup that could keep him in power longer
    Jan. 15• Nation & World
    Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev talk to each other prior to a cabinet meeting in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday. The Tass news agency reports Wednesday that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev submitted his resignation to President Vladimir Putin. Russian news agencies said Putin thanked Medvedev for his service but noted that the prime minister's Cabinet failed to fulfill all the objectives set for it. (Dmitry Astakhov, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP) [DMITRY ASTAKHOV | AP]
    Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev resigned his post after Putin announced the proposed constitutional amendments.
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