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Brian Laundrie's parents filed to dismiss the lawsuit.
- Hailing the proposed bill as “common-sense” and “life-saving,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) vowed to push the bill through the evenly divided upper chamber with some Republican support by the end of the week.
- The mayor, who was on Rikers to announce that the DOC has seized 2,700 weapons and other contraband this year, suggested some of this year’s deaths may be the result of inmates having “preexisting conditions” or otherwise being in poor health.
- Arredondo was the commander who ordered officers to wait as Salvador Ramos killed children inside Robb Elementary School.
- All three people had been released from the hospital by Wednesday afternoon.
- Unlikely to pass a gas tax holiday through the Senate, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that Democrats will focus instead on their bill to crack down on oil companies “manipulating the market” for higher prices and profits. “We’re going to focus on that issue,” Schumer said.
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- Two former police officers illegally working as bounty hunters allegedly handcuffed and kidnapped the girlfriend of a suspect they were chasing and drove her around California for hours.
- The powerful panel that sets housing costs in about 1 million rent-regulated apartments in New York City voted Tuesday night to approve the largest increases in almost a decade: 5% for two-year leases and 3.3% for single-year leases.
- A massive earthquake rocked a remote mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more.
- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), said his chamber would begin debating the measure right away and move to final passage “as quickly as possible.”
