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1 Feds settle suit alleging abuse by men detained after 9/11:

The Justice Department settled a decades-old lawsuit on Tuesday filed by a group of men who were rounded up by the government in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and held in a federal jail in New York in conditions the department’s own watchdog called abusive and harsh.

The settlement announced Tuesday calls for a $98,000 payout to be paid out among the six men who filed the suit and were held without terrorism charges at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

2 Governor signs bill limiting

guns: New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a package of bills touted to increase gun safety less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened states’ ability to restrict carrying concealed firearms. “These are not going to be our last words on gun safety,” he said.

3 Twitter sues Indian government

Twitter took the Indian government to court Tuesday over content-removal orders, the first time the company has mounted a legal challenge against authorities there amid a widening internet crackdown. The most recent orders to take down content and block accounts, which Twitter complied with Monday, were described as “arbitrary” and “disproportionate,” according to sources familiar with the filing.

4 76 million-year-old dinosaur skeleton to be auctioned in NYC:

The fossilized skeleton of a T. rex relative that roamed the earth about 76 million years ago will be auctioned in New York this month, Sotheby’s announced Tuesday. The Gorgosaurus skeleton will highlight Sotheby’s natural history auction on July 28, the auction house said.

5 Gunfire at Minneapolis park wounds 8 people:

Gunfire at a park along the Mississippi River near downtown Minneapolis wounded eight people, some of them with critical injuries, officials said Tuesday. The shooting occurred about 11:30 p.m. Monday at Boom Island Park, just south of the Plymouth Avenue Bridge, said Park and Recreation Board spokeswoman Robin Smothers.