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1 Prosecutors: No Weinstein retrial: Los Angeles prosecutors told a judge Tuesday that they will not retry Harvey Weinstein on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. Prosecutors had been considering a new trial on charges that left jurors deadlocked at the former movie mogul’s trial. The jury convicted Weinstein of the rape and sexual assault of one woman. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Feds stop seeking death penalty 2 in Sjodin case: U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday that they will no longer seek the death penalty for Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., convicted in the kidnapping and killing of college student Dru Sjodin in 2003 in a case that led to changes in sex offender registration laws. Rodriguez has been on death row at a federal prison for nearly two decades in the death of Sjodin, a Minnesota woman who was abducted from a Grand Forks mall parking lot in November 2003.

Facebook cutting jobs again: 3 Facebook parent Meta is slashing 10,000 jobs, about as many as the social media company announced late last year in its first round of cuts, as uncertainly about the global economy hits the technology sector particularly hard. In addition to the layoffs, Meta said Tuesday it would not fill 5,000 open positions.

Insulin maker plans price cuts: 4 Novo Nordisk will start slashing some U.S. insulin prices up to 75% next year, following a path set earlier this month by rival Eli Lilly. The Danish drugmaker says that pre-filled pens and vials of longacting and short-acting insulins will see price reductions.

Pension strike in Paris 5 continues: Up to 7,000 tons of garbage has piled up on Paris sidewalks as sanitation workers strike for a ninth day. The creeping squalor is the most visible sign of widespread anger over a bill to raise the French retirement age by two years.