More than 30 pro-Palestinian activists have filed a civil rights lawsuit against UCLA, alleging the university violated their rights during demonstrations at the campus encampment last year. The lawsuit lists 35 plaintiffs, including students and faculty members, who claim they were deprived of their rights and suffered injuries. The lawsuit also names law enforcement agencies and individuals as defendants for using excessive force and unlawfully arresting protesters.
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Mississippi executes Vietnam veteran on death row for nearly 50 years
A Mississippi man, Richard Gerald Jordan, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a bank loan officer, in a ransom scheme. At 79, Jordan, a Vietnam veteran with PTSD, had spent nearly five decades on death row, with the U.S. Supreme Court denying his final appeals and Mississippi's governor denying clemency. Explain It To Me Like I'm 5: A 79-year-old man named Richard Jordan was...
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