Law & Defense
Why America is obsessed with true crime
“I think with true crime, it creates this thirst for punishment,” says incarcerated journalist John J. Lennon.Luke Piotrowski Get your...
Executions are rising in the US. This reverend witnesses them.
“We have a criminal justice system in which the courtroom and the sentence is so far removed from the lived...
Maine voters approve new law to prevent suicides and mass shootings
AR-15-style rifles displayed under an American flag at the Kittery Trading Post, Aug. 9, 2024, in Kittery, MaineAP/Charles Krupa Get...
How Trump’s DOJ wiped out a pioneering anti-violence nonprofit
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To understand that horrific Chicago apartment raid, go back in time—to Texas
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Sam Bankman-Fried and the multibillion-dollar drama over FTX’s ruins
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Trump’s deportation machine has diverted some 42,000 crime fighters from other tasks
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US Marshals’ efforts around Trump’s January 6 pardons were “highly unusual”
At right, supporters of pardoned January 6 defendants await their release outside DC’s Central Detention Facility on January 20, 2025.Mother...
Baltimore mayor to Trump: Don’t send your troops
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott speaks at a news conference in East Baltimore.Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun/Zuma Get your news from a...
His book on Charlie Kirk was about to come out. Then his subject was murdered.
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