Mississippi Towns Scarred By ICE Raids Fear For Trump’s Administration
On Aug. 7, 2019, seven poultry plants in central Mississippi, some of the biggest employers in the region, were raided by Immigration...
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18 hours ago2 min read
The 'Donald J. Trump Election Qualification Act': Missouri Lawmaker Seeks To Allow Felons To Run For Office
A Republican state representative thinks Missouri should follow the example set by the GOP nationally and allow people convicted of...
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18 hours ago2 min read
NFL, DOJ Call On Congress To Address Threat of Drones
The National Football League, the Justice Department, the FBI and other agencies will call on Congress on Tuesday to expand U.S....
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18 hours ago2 min read
DC Officials Claim Tough On Crime Method Is Reducing Violence
On Monday, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser credited District leaders’ embrace of a more aggressive approach to crime fighting with...
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18 hours ago2 min read
Two New Orleans Law Firms Federally Charged In Staged Accident Scheme
Two New Orleans-based law firms and their attorneys who specialize in car accident claims have been charged with several others for their...
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18 hours ago1 min read
DOJ Find Civil Rights Violations By Police In Worcester, MA
Police in Worcester, MA, use excessive force and engage in “outrageous” sexual contact with women while undercover, a two-year civil...
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18 hours ago1 min read
Daniel Penny Acquitted In Subway Choking Death Of Jordan Neely
Daniel Penny, a former Marine who choked a fellow subway rider in New York City last year, was acquitted on a charge of criminally...
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18 hours ago2 min read
Factual Disputes Emerge In N.R.A. First Amendment Case
The usually sharply divided United States Supreme Court came together earlier this year to to decide unanimously in favor of the National...
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18 hours ago2 min read
Trump Picks Conservative Activist And Supporter Harmeet K. Dhillon To Head DOJ Civil Rights
President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Harmeet K. Dhillon — a California lawyer who has long championed Trump in public, in court...
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2 days ago2 min read
Coalition Presses Biden To Empty Death Row Before Trump Enters
A coalition of former prison officials, relatives of homicide victims, civil rights advocates and religious leaders is urging President...
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2 days ago2 min read
Prison Bureau Acknowledges Staff Inmate Abuse, Accepts Monitor
A settlement after rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse will force the federal Bureau of Prisons to open its doors to a court-appointed...
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California Asks Court To Void $130M Fine In Inmate Mental Health Case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held hearings Friday in a decadeslong class action focused on mental health care for...
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2 days ago2 min read
NJ Troopers Issued 81% Fewer Tickets After Report Assailed Bias
In July 2023, New Jersey troopers who patrol the state’s busiest highways and remote rural roads began writing far fewer traffic...
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Indianapolis Officers Acquitted In Death Of Man They Cuffed, Tased
Two Indianapolis police officers were acquitted of involuntary manslaughter charges in the 2022 death of Herman Whitfield III, after he...
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Veterans Courts Help 15,000 A Year, Many Still Lack Treatment
Veterans treatment courts have helped thousands of former service members get much needed help for addiction and mental health problems...
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2 days ago2 min read
Bondi Lobbies For Firms DOJ Deals With, Like Private Prisons, Sheriffs
Over the past six years, Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi has worked as a Washington lobbyist for a top firm, representing corporate...
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2 days ago2 min read
Sympathy For Killer May Hamper Police in United Healthcare Death
As they search for the man who assassinated a top health-insurance executive in New York City last week, authorities are contending with...
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2 days ago2 min read
Trump Will Pardon Jan. 6 Rioters Starting On First Day In Office
President-elect Trump says pardoning rioters from the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol will begin his first day in office. "I'm...
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2 days ago2 min read
Are Big Opioid Settlements Around The U.S. Being Used Wisely?
People with substance use disorder across the U.S. are not getting a formal say in how most of the approximately $50 billion in opioid...
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2 days ago1 min read
'Crime Tourists' Hit Philadelphia Areas In Daytime Burglaries
It took a burglar just 13 minutes to clear out the valuables from John Sinis’ home in Philadelphia's Fishtown last month, loading a gym...
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