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WASHINGTON (AP) — More gun sales will require background checks. Under current law, only federally licensed gun dealers must conduct background checks on buyers, but many who sell guns at flea markets, on websites or in other informal settings don't register as dealers. President Barack Obama has taken executive action to close that loophole. Gun collectors are still exempt.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says paying reparations to dozens of people tortured by police decades ago is "a moral reckoning to right a wrong." Emanuel tells the Chicago Sun-Times, that "There is no statute of limitations on that." The city on Monday paid $5.5 million in reparations to 57 people who were shocked, suffocated and beaten into giving false confessions from the 1970s through the early 1990s.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The state commission that regulates Oklahoma's oil and natural gas industry has ordered some injection well operators to reduce wastewater disposal volumes after at least a dozen earthquakes hit an area north of Oklahoma City in less than a week. A 4.2 magnitude temblor on New Year's Day caused minor damage but no injuries. Many of the Oklahoma's quakes are occurring in areas where injection wells pump salty wastewater — a byproduct of oil and gas production — deep into the earth.
BOSTON (AP) — Former students who say they were sexually abused at a prestigious Rhode Island boarding school are holding a news conference in Boston Tuesday to call for an independent investigation. St. George's School in Middletown announced last month that it found 26 students were sexually abused by six school employees in the 1970s and 1980s. It acknowledged it did not report abusers to authorities at the time. Tuition at the private high school was $56,000 a year.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge who had ordered a baby girl taken away from her lesbian foster parents and placed with a heterosexual couple has retired. Juvenile court Judge Scott Johansen retired on Jan. 1. Johansen faced widespread criticism and calls for his impeachment after he ordered a 9-month-old baby taken from the home of April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce on Nov. 10. He later reversed the ruling and recused himself.
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