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Retired Houston officer gets 60 years in couple’s drug raid deaths that revealed corruption

HOUSTON (AP) — A former Houston police officer is being sent to prison for the deaths of a married couple during a drug raid. A jury sentenced Gerald Goines to 60 years on Tuesday after convicting him of murder in the deaths of Dennis Tuttle and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas. An investigation of the January 2019 raid revealed systemic corruption in the Houston Police narcotics unit. Prosecutors said Goines lied to get a search warrant by falsely portraying the couple as dangerous drug dealers. Goines’ lawyers admitted he lied but said his actions did not amount to murder. They’ve filed notice they’ll appeal.

A former aide to New York Mayor Eric Adams is charged with destroying evidence as top deputy quits

NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York City official was charged Tuesday with witness tampering and destroying evidence as a federal investigation led to Mayor Eric Adams’ bribery indictment. Federal prosecutors allege that Mohamed Bahi told a businessman and campaign donors to lie to the FBI in June. They also accuse him of deleting an encrypted messaging app from his cell phone as FBI agents searched his home in July. Prosecutors said Bahi had used the Signal app to communicate with Adams. Bahi resigned Monday as a community affairs liaison. No lawyer who could speak on Bahi’s behalf was listed in an online court docket.

TikTok is designed to be addictive to kids and causes them harm, US states’ lawsuits say

(AP) — More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against TikTok. They are alleging the popular short-form video app is designed to be addictive to kids and harms young people’s mental health. At the heart of each lawsuit is the TikTok algorithm, which powers what users see on the platform by populating the app’s main “For You” feed with content tailored to people’s interests. The lawsuits also emphasize design features that they say make children addicted to the platform. TikTok says it strongly disagrees with the claims. It says many of the allegations in the lawsuits are wrong and misleading.

Woodward book reveals Trump’s calls with Putin and Biden’s private remarks on Obama and Netanyahu

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bob Woodward writes in his new book “War” that Donald Trump has had as many as seven private phone calls with Vladimir Putin since leaving office and that he secretly sent the Russian president COVID-19 test machines in 2020. Woodward reports that Trump asked an aide to leave his office at Mar-a-Lago so that the former president could have a private call with Putin in early 2024. Woodward also reports that Putin told Trump not to tell anyone about sending him COVID-19 test machines. Trump’s communications director Steven Cheung said the book was filled with “made up stories.” The Associated Press obtained an early copy of the book, which is due out next week.

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