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The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. With CAPITOL BREACH-SENTENCING — A federal judge says he hopes a three-month sentence behind bars in a Capitol insurrection case will send a message to other defendants who don’t seem to be “truly accepting responsibility.” SENT: 355 words, photos. CALIFORNIA-OIL-SPILL — An underwater oil pipeline off the Southern California coast was likely damaged by a ship’s anchor several months to a year before it ruptured and sent oil spewing into the ocean and then onto some of the area’s best-known beaches, investigators said Friday. MURKOWSKI-DEATH-THREAT — A man upset over the impeachment of former President Donald Trump, illegal immigration and the direction he thinks the country is headed is accused of threatening the lives of Alaska’s two Republican U.S. senators in a series of profanity-laced voicemails that included saying he would hire an assassin to kill one. HURRICANE-IDA-NURSING-HOME-DEATHS — Conditions deteriorated at a warehouse housing evacuated nursing home patients, five of whose deaths were linked to Hurricane Ida, because widespread and unexpected storm damage interrupted essential services, the nursing homes’ owner says.
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