Law & Defense
How being Black in America almost killed me
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Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender
Police work to contain the scene during an active shooter situation at the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis on Wednesday.Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota...
Why Rehab Often Fuels Relapse Instead of Recovery
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States sue over DOJ demand to hand crime victims to ICE
Attorney General Pam Bondi is among the defendants in a new lawsuit over the agency's grant requirements for nonprofits serving...
What police weren’t told about tasers
A police officer demonstrates the use of a Taser gun. Rui Vieira/PA Wire/AP Get your news from a source that’s...
Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools
Once best known for developing the Taser, Axon has transformed into a $50 billion military and law enforcement tech giant.Mother...
ICE plans to build more tent jails for immigrants. What could go wrong?
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Tent City jail in Phoenix in 2012Charlie Riedel, File/AP Get your news from a source that’s not...
A revolutionary way to end the incarceration of girls
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ICE arrested these immigrants in San Francisco and sent them 2,400 miles away—to Hawaii
Apparently not. (A protester's sign in San Francisco, July 15, 2025) Lea Suzuki/SF Chronicle via AP Get your news from...
Evidence in her brutal 1979 rape pointed to the Golden State Killer. The police didn’t want to hear about it.
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