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Flowers sit at a tree in front of the building where technology executive Bob Lee was fatally stabbed. An arrest has been made in connection with the killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee. San Francisco police apprehended a man Emeryville, California, early Thursday, Mission Local reported. Initial reports claim the suspect personally knew Lee. Lee’s ex-wife Krista Lee confirmed an arrest was made in an interview with KTVU Fox 2 early Thursday. “This is the first step toward justice,” she said.

The U.S. Capitol Police lieutenant who shot and killed Jan. 6 protester Ashli Babbitt was housed for six months in a hotel suite reserved for top brass at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, according to newly released Air Force records. Capitol Police paid for a suite for Lt. Michael Byrd and a “pet” at the hotel inside the fenced base from July 2021 to January 2022 for thousands of dollars, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch. Byrd, who did not face any charges in the killing of the unarmed Babbitt, revealed his role in August 2021 and said that...

July 18, 2004 LIVES When One Is Enough By AMY RICHARDS as told to AMY BARRETT I grew up in a working-class family in Pennsylvania not knowing my father. I have never missed not having him. I firmly believe that, but for much of my life I felt that what I probably would have gained was economic security and with that societal security. Growing up with a single mother, I was always buying into the myth that I was going to be seduced in the back of a pickup truck and become pregnant when I was 16. I had friends...

NEW YORK - At closely watched abortion trials across the country Tuesday, one doctor said he will risk breaking a new law banning some abortions and another said he fears he will be prosecuted for doing a form of abortion "I consider safer." At trials in New York, San Francisco and Lincoln, Neb., lawyers for abortion rights advocates are putting doctors on the witness stand to support their claim that the law, signed by President Bush in November, is unconstitutional. The doctors dispute many of the conclusions Congress reported reaching during eight years of research about a form of abortion...