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Oil spill: The pipeline that leaked

1 tens of thousands of gallons of oil into the water off Southern California was split open and apparently dragged along the ocean floor, authorities said. Coast Guard Capt. Rebecca Ore said divers determined about 4,000 feet of the pipeline was “laterally displaced”by about 105 feet. She did not say what might have caused it to move.

U.N. says war crimes committed 2 in Libya:

United Nations investigators have found evidence of crimes against humanity and war crimes — from accusations of violence against civilians on the part of foreign mercenaries to human rights conditions in prisons — perpetrated in Libya in recent years.

Tesla verdict: Tesla lost a case

3 against a Black former elevator operator and must pay an unprecedented $137 million in damages for having turned a blind eye to racial taunts and offensive graffiti the man endured at the electric carmaker’s auto plant in Fremont, California. Owen Diaz, a former contract worker who was hired in 2015 via a staffing agency, was subjected to a racially hostile work environment, a federal jury in San Francisco decided Monday.

Board recommends posthumous pardon:

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A Texas board on Monday recommended a full posthumous pardon for George Floyd for a 2004 drug arrest made by a former Houston police officer now charged with murder in a botched 2019 drug raid. The officer’s case history has come under scrutiny amid allegations he falsified evidence in previous arrests.

Panel to open legal records: A top 5 committee of the Southern Baptist Convention agreed Tuesday to open up legally protected records to investigators who will look into how it handled, or mishandled, cases of sexual abuse within the nation’s largest Protestant denomination over the past two decades.