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A hiker at Grand Canyon National Park died Friday afternoon after falling 200 feet to his death, officials said.

The hiker, a 44-year-old man whose name was not released, was near the rim west of the Bright Angel Point Trail on the North Rim of the national park, the National Park Service said in a news release.

Officials said the man was off the trail when he accidentally fell off the edge of the rim. Responding rangers arrived at the scene after 3:30 p.m. and found the man's body "approximately 200 feet below the rim."

The National Park Service advises people to stay on designated trails and walkways at all times while in the park, not climb over railings or fences and pay attention to members of hiking groups.

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Three Dutch commandos in the United States for training exercises have been wounded in a shooting outside their hotel in Indianapolis, the Dutch defence ministry says.

One of them was in critical condition, a statement on Saturday said. The men were in the state of Indiana for training, it said, and local police were investigating the Friday night shooting. No arrests have been made.

The Indianapolis metropolitan police department, which is handling the investigation, was not immediately available for comment.

A department officer told Fox 59 it appeared an altercation took place earlier at a different location from the Hampton Inn in downtown Indianapolis.

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Several people who were arrested last week as part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ voter fraud crackdown were notified by official government entities they were eligible to vote, according to court documents and interviews.

The defendants told authorities they had no intention of committing voter fraud, according to affidavits, and in some cases were baffled by their arrests because counties had sent them voter registration cards and approved them to vote.

The defendants were vilified by the governor during a high profile press conference last week, where DeSantis announced the arrest of 20 people — convicted murderers and sex offenders — who allegedly cast votes in the 2020 election when they weren’t eligible to. The defendants, because of their convictions, weren’t permitted to vote.

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Sullivan Walter was just a teenager when he was arrested in connection with a rape during a home invasion in New Orleans.

More than three decades later, a Louisiana judge determined Walter, now 53, was wrongfully convicted for a crime he didn’t commit and freed him from prison on Thursday.

The decision by district judge Darryl Derbigny ended the fifth longest wrongful conviction sentence of any juvenile in the US, Nola.com reported, at a time when juvenile sentences, particularly life sentences, are under scrutiny.

The Black man’s conviction illustrated the racial bias that plagues the US criminal justice system and has led Black people to be disproportionately wrongfully convicted of sexual assault, murder and drug-related offenses compared with white people.

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