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The prosecution and defense on Monday offered different takes on the circumstances that led to the fatal shooting of a black man in his own apartment by an off-duty police officer.

Jefferson's death became the latest flash point in the national conversation about police accountability and the killing of black residents by white officers. Her funeral was held on Thursday.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is getting a new student loan watchdog. Robert Cameron is a former top official at one of the large student loan servicing companies the CFPB once policed.

Letitia James' office gave its most detailed accounting yet of its probe into allegations that Trump's company repeatedly misstated the value of assets to get favorable loans or slash its tax burden.

New census figures indicate that Latinos account for half of America's population growth over the past five years. From the Deep South to the Northwest, Latino immigrants live and work, bringing their culture to small towns as well as big cities. The Anglo community has been very receptive.

This year, instead of crops, 34 million acres of American farmland will produce tall grass, pheasants and ducks. That's thanks to the CRP, a USDA program to protect soil, streams and wildlife habitat on farms that accounts for about 8 percent of all farm subsidies in 2005.

New figures from the Census Bureau show that Hispanics accounted for about half the population growth in the U.S. last year. Births have now overtaken immigration this decade as the largest source of Hispanic growth. One region where the trend is well illustrated is Cook County, including Chicago.

In his day, J. Paul Getty was known as "the richest man in America." James Reginato's biography, Growing Up Getty, is an exhaustive account of how the rich are different from most people.

Everyone from forgotten pop stars to clueless heiresses have written memoirs, leaving the genre just a paper cut shy of unbearable. But, fear not! Writer and editor Radhika Jones has three personal accounts sure slap a bandage on that wound and jog your memoir-loving memory.

Traders who made calamitous bets on corporate debt have cost JPMorgan Chase nearly $6 billion so far. The bank announced the losses on Friday but said the firm still managed to earn $5 billion in the second quarter. But the impact of the trading loss goes far beyond the bottom line.

The New York attorney general's office said it reviewed thousands of pages of documents and social media content to study how the suspect used online platforms to plan and publicize the mass shooting.

Former President Donald Trump is among the conservative figures offering condolences. He called Hardaway's death "totally unexpected" and "really bad news for Republicans and frankly, ALL Americans."