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☆ Trump tries to block Jack Smith report and inmates reject Biden commutation: Morning Rundown
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-07 | by ( Elizabeth Robinson | Elizabeth Robinson Is A Newsletter Editor For Nbc News | Based In Los Angeles. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Trump tries to block the public from seeing special counsel Jack Smith’s final report. Trump seeks to block release of final report from Jack SmithSpecial Counsel Jack Smith makes a statement to the press in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 1, 2023. The report in question is one that the special counsel’s office is required under Justice Department regulations to provide. Meanwhile, Trump’s lawyers have sent a letter urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to stop Smith from releasing the report. While the eastern half of the country grapples with winter weather, California faced the flip side: “Extreme fire weather,” fueled by warm days and dry winds.

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“Catch a predator is a big thing on TikTok currently,” the facts document cites the student, Easton Randall, 19, as saying. The Assumption University campus in Worcester, Mass. Charged with kidnapping, conspiracyThe statement identifies one of the students as a juvenile, whose charges are not included in a criminal complaint filed last month. Campus authorities were later connected to the service member by the Worcester Police Department, which provided a starkly different account. Afterward, according to the statement, Randall acknowledged to authorities: “This got out of hand and went bad.”

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☆ Students Charged in ‘To Catch a Predator’ TikTok Scheme
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-05 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Five college students in Massachusetts are accused of luring a man to the Assumption University campus in a plot that the police said was inspired by the television show “To Catch a Predator” and a fad on TikTok. The students were part of a larger group that chased the man from a campus building after he was invited there by a student on the dating app, Tindr, expecting to meet an adult, according to a criminal complaint issued in Worcester District Court on Dec. 4. The campus police at Assumption University, a small Catholic school in Worcester, said in the complaint that the group accused the man of being a sexual predator, stopped him from leaving a student lounge and recorded the episode as part of a “deliberately staged event.”Two students assaulted the man, the police said. There was no indication that the man was trying to meet underage girls and the woman who invited him to the campus, Kelsy Brainard, 18, said on her Tindr profile that she was 18 years old, the police said. The police did not provide the man’s age.

Persons: Kelsy Brainard Organizations: Assumption University Locations: Massachusetts, Worcester

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