Ten mayors have joined with the Center for American Progress advocacy group to launch a new national initiative of city leaders committed to pursuing what they call “a fair, equitable, and comprehensive approach to public safety and criminal justice reform.” Mayors for Smart on Crime brings...
The bureaucracy possesses the power to make law and dictate how its statutes should be interpreted - this flies in the face of the separation of powers....
Frightened parents rushed to the scene of a Los Angeles middle school Thursday, crowding outside the gates, desperate to hear if their children were safe. Word had spread fast that a gun had gone off in a classroom and that students had been shot. News...
After ending a record year for inmate suicides, the Georgia Department of Corrections said three inmates have apparently killed themselves within 2 1/2 weeks, two on the same day, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The Department of Corrections is investigating all three deaths as apparent suicides....
President Trump said on Friday that the top officials and investigators at the FBI and main Justice Department had “politicized the sacred investigative process,” shortly before the White House is expected to clear the way for Congress to release a controversial memo that is said...
Carnival Cruise Lines has been in the news lately with four of its cruise ships failing sanitation inspections in the last two months and a total of five ships failing USPH inspections in the last year. The Carnival Vista (79), Carnival Breeze (77), Carnival Triumph...
After nearly four hours of delays prompted by last-minute claims of dated injection drugs and botched executions, John Battaglia of Dallas was put to death on Thursday, the Houston Chronicle reports. Battaglia, 62, had fatally shot his daughters, 9 and 6. Battaglia’s was the third...
Since Trump’s executive decisions regarding immigration, U.S. border security has taken steps to reflect the changes in legislation. One of the actions taken was the increased search of travelers’ phones and other electronic devices by border agents. In this episode of Digital Detectives, hosts Sharon...
Larry Nassar, the gymnastics osteopath convicted of sexually abusing young female gymnasts and other patients under the guise of medical care, has been called a monster by many of the victims and by the judge in the case. New York Times op-ed writer Frank Bruni,...
At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie hopes that in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, in which the court will consider whether an Illinois law allowing public-sector unions to charge nonmembers for collective-bargaining activities violates the...