Welcome to Monday, the 38th anniversary of the premiere of “Barnum” on Broadway. Here are some news items to get your week started. — Near-drowning victim sues police and lifeguard. — California man faces charges of waterboarding his wife. — ...

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American Bar Association honors "Serial" leads news summary that includes lack of accounting for isolated Maryland prisoners, taxicab companies' lawsuit against Uber and the start of a torture trial.

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge dealt a severe blow Friday to a long-running torture lawsuit filed against military contractor CACI by four Iraqis who say they suffered abuse at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. At a hearing in U.S. ...

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McLEAN, Va. — A U.S. judge on Tuesday awarded $21 million to seven people who sued a former prime minister of Somalia now living in Virginia, claiming he tortured and killed his own people more than two decades ago. The ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — A lawyer for the former prime minister of Somalia told a federal appeals court Wednesday that a judge improperly acquiesced to the State Department’s view that his client can be sued over alleged war crimes. Mohamed Ali ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Wednesday tossed out a convicted terrorist’s lawsuit accusing a high-ranking Bush administration lawyer who wrote the so-called torture memos of authorizing illegally harsh treatment of enemy combatants. Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General ...

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LOS ANGELES — Handcuffed and marched through Washington’s Dulles International Airport in his Muslim clothing, the man with the long, dark beard could only imagine what people were thinking. That scene unfolded in March 2003, a year and a half ...

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