Journalist and former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested by federal authorities on January 29, 2026, in Los Angeles in connection with his reporting on a disruptive anti-immigration enforcement protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota. The arrest — made while Lemon was covering the Grammy Awards — has sparked intense debate about press freedom and the scope of First Amendment protections.

Lemon’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, stated that his presence at the protest was journalistic in nature and protected by the Constitution. Lowell called the arrest an attempt to “intimidate” journalists and said that Lemon’s reporting was consistent with his long career in the media.

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In the public imagination, Kouri Richins exists in a state of contradiction. She is both the grieving author of a children’s book about loss and the woman prosecutors say poisoned her husband, Eric Richins, with a lethal dose of fentanyl mixed into a Moscow mule.

To neighbors, she was a successful real estate agent and mother of three. To the state, she is an accused killer driven by financial desperation, buried under high-interest “hard money” loans and allegedly motivated by control of her husband’s estate.

As jury selection approaches on February 10, the case has taken a sharp and unexpected turn. Toxicology evidence and financial motives are no longer the dominant storyline. Instead, the spotlight has shifted to the conduct of investigators and prosecutors themselves. What was once a straightforward homicide prosecution has evolved into a bruising legal battle over witness pressure, immunity, and the limits of state power.

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On a humid Key West night in February 2023, the neon glow of Conch Town Liquor & Lounge lit up a scene that felt routine—until it wasn’t. Two men, longtime local businessman Lloyd Preston Brewer III, 57, and 21-year-old Garrett Hughes, had been drinking together. The night ended not with laughter, but with gunfire in a strip mall parking lot on North Roosevelt Boulevard.

What followed was a trial that forced jurors—and the broader community—to confront a brutal reality: how quickly a trivial act can spiral into irreversible violence. The verdict, first-degree murder, rested on seconds of video and clear legal lines. Here are four takeaways that explain why the jury reached its decision.

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