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Four Missouri hunters who stepped diagonally from one parcel of federal land in Wyoming to another did not illegally trespass on the airspace of adjacent private property, a federal appeals court has ruled. The decision, issued by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver, firmly protects public access to millions of acres of land in the court’s six-state jurisdiction and substantially strengthens the rights of “corner-crossers” throughout the West. The case is rooted in a quirk of the region, where vast swaths of terrain have been divided since the 19th century...

President Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone was charged Friday with lying and witness tampering in connection with the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He also threatened to steal a dog, according to the indictment by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. The indictment does not name the dog or the dog’s owner. But people close to the case told The Washington Post that the person is a Stone associate named Randy Credico, a comedian and former New York radio host. Credico said Stone threatened him after he publicly denied being Stone’s back-channel connection to WikiLeaks during...