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Expert to review ex-House Speaker Hastert’s health: judge

Hastert, 74, pleaded guilty in October to a federal charge of “structuring” – evading bank reporting rules by withdrawing large amounts of cash in smaller increments. The former Republican speaker of the House of Representatives used the funds to pay an individual to keep quiet about decades-old allegations of sexual misconduct. Judge Thomas Durkin earlier this year postponed Hastert's sentencing to April 8 from Feb. 29 because Hastert was recovering from a stroke and life-threatening infection.

Jurors to see graphic images at Colorado cinema massacre trial

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – Jurors in the murder trial of Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes will see the majority of the gruesome photographs and video taken at the crime scene, but a handful of images will be barred, the judge overseeing the case ruled on Tuesday. Defense lawyers had argued the photos could prejudice the jury against Holmes, who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to killing 12 people and wounding dozens more by opening fire in a Denver-area theater in July 2012 during a midnight screening of the Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises. …