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3rd Iowa teen takes plea deal in killing near high school

(AP) — A third teenag- pended sentences and fines
er charged with murder and two years of probation,
in the drive-by shooting court documents said.
death of a 15-year-old
boy outside a Des Moines Sentencing was set for May
high school in March has 30.
agreed to plead guilty to
lesser crimes. As part of the plea Marquez-
Jacobo acknowledged he
The plea agreement accept- knew the March 7 shooting
ed by a state court judge on had occurred and that certain
Monday may allow Gumaro people had carried it out.
Marquez-Jacobo, 18, to avoid
prison time for charges re- “I aided those persons by
lated to the March 7 death of driving away from a second-
15-year-old Jose Lopez. ary location with the intent to
prevent their apprehension,”
Marquez-Jacobo will plead he said in court documents.
guilty to being an accessory
after the fact, providing a pis- The shooting was allegedly Des Moines police have said. Buezo, 17, and Kevin Mar- maining defendant charged
tol to a person under 21, and carried out by 10 teenagers Lopez died from gunshot tinez, 16, also have agreed to as an adult has a trial date of
being a person ineligible to aged 14 to 18, riding in three wounds. His sister and one of plea deals. April 10. Two other defen-
carry a dangerous weapon. vehicles and using at least her female friends were seri- dants aged 14 and 15 at the
The charges together carry six guns from which they ously injured. Among the remaining defen- time of the shooting remain
a penalty of up to four years fired more than 42 bullets dants, one is scheduled to go in juvenile court.
in prison. But prosecutors toward several youth stand- Court documents filed last to trial on Oct. 17 and three
agreed to recommend sus- ing near East High School, week indicated that Manuel others on March 6. The re-

Smacked asteroid’s debris trail more than 6,000 miles long

(AP) — The asteroid that ters) long, consisting of dust More observations are
got smacked by a NASA and other material spewed planned to determine how
spacecraft is now being from the impact crater. much and what kind of mate-
trailed by thousands of rial was hurled from the 525-
miles of debris from the This plume is accelerating foot (160-meter) Dimor-
impact. away from the harmless as- phos, a moonlet of a larger
teroid, in large part, because asteroid.
Astronomers captured the of pressure on it from so-
scene millions of miles away lar radiation, said Matthew Launched nearly a year ago,
with a telescope in Chile. Knight of the U.S. Naval Re- NASA’s Dart spacecraft was
Their remarkable obser- search Laboratory, who made destroyed in the head-on col-
vation two days after last the observation along with lision. The $325 million mis-
month’s planetary defense Lowell Observatory’s Teddy sion to deflect an asteroid’s
test was recently released a Kareta using the Southern orbit was intended as a dress
National Science Foundation Astrophysical Research Tele- rehearsal for the day a killer
lab in Arizona. scope. rock heads our way. Dimor-
uous at one point that it’s un- will be like any other dust phos and its companion rock
The image shows an expand- Scientists expect the tail to detectable. floating around the solar sys- never posed a threat to Earth
ing, comet-like tail more than get even longer and disperse tem,” Knight said in an email and still do not, according to
6,000 miles (10,000 kilome- even more, becoming so ten- “At that point, the material Tuesday. NASA.

Trump files $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN

claims of widespread fraud election officials in both par- against other news organi-
that he says cost him the 2020 ties, a long list of courts, top zations. And he said he may
presidential election to Joe former campaign staffers and also bring “appropriate ac-
Biden. even Trump’s own attorney tion” against the House com-
general have all said there is mittee investigating the Jan.
CNN said it had no com- no evidence of the election 6 attack on the Capitol by
ment on the lawsuit. fraud he alleges. his supporters. The lawsuit
comes as he is weighing a po-
Trump repeatedly attacked Trump’s lawsuit claims “The tential bid for the presidency
CNN as president, which Big Lie,” a phrase with Nazi in 2024.
resonated with his conserva- connotations, has been used
tive followers. He has simi- in reference to him more New CNN chief Chris Li-
larly filed lawsuits against than 7,700 times on CNN cht privately urged his news
big tech companies with lit- since January 2021. personnel in a meeting more
tle success. His case against than three months ago to re-
(AP) — Former President political campaign. Twitter for knocking him off “It is intended to aggravate, frain from using the phrase
Donald Trump on Mon- its platform following the scare and trigger people,” he because it is too close to
day sued CNN, seeking The lawsuit, filed in U.S. Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol in- said. Democratic efforts to brand
$475 million in damages, District Court in Fort Lau- surrection was thrown out by the former president, accord-
saying the network had derdale, Florida, focuses a California judge earlier this In a statement Monday, ing to several published re-
defamed him in an effort primarily on the term “The year. Trump suggested that simi- ports.
to short-circuit any future Big Lie” about Trump’s false Numerous federal and local lar lawsuits would be filed