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Washington mdash; President Biden is visiting the southern border Thursday at the same time former President Donald Trump is also making an appearance in a different Texas border town, in a split screen emblematic of the political moment.Mr. Biden is visiting Brownsville, Texas, where he s meeting with border pat
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TULSA, Okla. -- A former Oklahoma volunteer sheriff s deputy who said he mistook his handgun for his stun gun when he fatally shot an unarmed suspect last year was convicted of second-degree manslaughter on Wednesday.Jurors handed down the verdict in the case of 74-year-old Robert Bates, a wealthy insurance executive accused of fatally shooting Eric Harris while working with Tulsa County sheriff s deputies last year during an illegal gun sales sting. Harris, who had run from deputies, was restrained and unarmed when he was shot. Federal inquiry launched into the Tulsa County Sheriff s Office 01:48 The shooting -- which was caught on video -- sparked several investigations that, among other things,
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