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The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is renewing its plea to the public for information in the 1974 murder of 24-year-old James Norris. Investigators believe persons living in the Miami, Panama City and Steinhatchee areas and Citrus County may have critical information.

Federal prisoners said to be the most dangerous are sent to a special unit at an Illinois penitentiary. NPR and The Marshall Project have uncovered violence, abuse and a string of inmate deaths there.

Rittenhouse described fearing for his life when he shot and killed two protesters last year. His lawyers requested a mistrial after the judge admonished the lead prosecutor during cross-examination.

COMMENTARY The idea of charging Jair Bolsonaro with pandemic homicide speaks to all the demagogues who've helped make the Americas COVID's killing field.