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In this image from body camera video from the DeSoto Parish Sheriff's Office, Jarius Brown is interviewed following a jailhouse beating that left him with a bruised face, fractured eye socket and broken nose at the DeSoto Parish Detention Center in Mansfield, La., on Sept. 27, 2019. (DeSoto Parish Sheriff's Office via AP)

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  3. Rabbis see a mix of anxiety and determination as US Jews await High Holy Days

     
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  7. Texas A&M president is stepping down after upheaval over classroom video

     
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