Law & Defense
Memes and machine guns: How Brandon Herrera built a path to Congress
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The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves
The "Conductive Distraction and De-escalation devices" manufactured by Compliant Technologies can cause a person to drop to the ground in...
Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
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Moms of Black Babies More Likely to Be Flagged to Police Over Alleged Pregnancy Drug Use
Melissa Robinson with her daughter Lyriq in Huntsville, Alabama, in 2024. After Robinson had a false positive test for cocaine...
Trump told prosecutors to target ICE protesters. A Chicago jury wasn’t buying it.
Congressional candidate Katherine "Kat" Abughazaleh, right, and her deputy campaign manager Andre Martin, far left, leave with their attorneys and...
Greg Bovino keeps posting to get his job back. No one is listening.
Greg Bovino speaks to reporters at CPAC, March 2026.Laura Brett/ZUMA Get your news from a source that’s not owned and...
What Americans really think in these troubled times
The author (left) in a Las Vegas barbershop, April 2026Peter Prato Get your news from a source that’s not owned...
America’s 911 system is in the throes of its own emergency
A dispatcher responds to a 911 call in Naples, Florida.Marta Lavandier/AP Get your news from a source that’s not owned...
Supreme Court leaves rulings on executing the intellectually disabled in place
The man at the center of this case, Joseph Clinton Smith, was found to have an intellectual disability while in...
The Oklahoma Communities Gutted by ICE
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