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Karen Read's defense team is looking to build on momentum yesterday from a surprise police witness who testified that her taillight was less damaged when he helped seize it with a warrant than it appears in photos taken after it arrived at the Canton Police Department, where authorities first towed it.Taillight fragments were not found at the crime scene until later, too, and her defense's implication is that they could have been planted there.Wednesday marks the 27th day of Read's retrial on murder and other charges in the January 2022 death of her then-boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe.KAREN READ'S

And you thought you had just figured out what "reconciliation" means in Congressional budget terms.Here’s a new vocabulary term: rescissions.You might not be able to spell it. But I can tell you what it does.A "rescissions" bill "rescinds" money which Congress has already allocated, ex post facto.For simplicity, I often describe rescissions legislation as "spending cancellations." Congress appropriated money. Then, under a recissions bill, Congress claws back dollars it previously appropriated. It’s kind of like a reverse appropriation.And you thought that in elementary school, there were no takebacks.TRUMP SENDS $9.4 BILLION DOGE CUTS PROPOSAL TO CONGRESS, TARGETING NPR, PBSPresidential administrations