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Oklahoma, a state with one of the nation’s busiest death chambers in recent decades, will enter its third year without an execution in 2018 while officials fine tune its procedure for putting condemned inmates to death, the Associated Press reports. Attorney General Mike Hunter expects...
Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Mark Wysocky says it is hard to separate texting drivers from drunken drivers. Both weave. They speed up and slow down for no obvious reason and get too close to other cars. They endanger their lives and others. Even though he...
After monts of deliberation, the formation of a citizen advisory committee and forums to gather public feedback, St. Louis leaders hired a new police chief from within their own ranks: John Hayden, a 30-year police veteran, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Hayden, 55 and a...
Los Angeles police arrested Tyler Barriss, 25, on suspicion of making the “swatting” call that ended with a Wichita man being killed by police, reports the Wichita Eagle. Barriss is accused of reporting a fake homicide and hostage situation to the Wichita Police Department just...
Violent crime in Philadelphia continued to fall in 2017, with offenses including rape, robbery, and aggravated assault likely to rival last year’s notably low totals, reports Philly.com. For the first time since 2012, the city recorded more than 300 homicides — an uptick of nearly...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finally published the report of its sanitation inspection for the Carnival Triumph. As you can read in the official report posted on the CDC website, the Carnival cruise ship received a failing score of 78. During its...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finally published the report of its sanitation inspection for the Carnival Triumph. As you can read in the official report posted on the CDC website, the Carnival cruise ship received a failing score of 78. During its...
The petition of the day is:
Kansas v. Garcia
17-834
Issues: (1) Whether the Immigration Reform and Control Act expressly pre-empts the states from using any information entered on or appended to a federal Form I-9, including common information such as name, date of birth, and social security...
The New Yorker investigates a humanitarian dilemma on Long Island, New York, where Central American children who immigrated illegally to the United States without an accompanying adult are caught between the violence of the MS-13 gang and the fear of deportation. More than 120,000 children...
There has been much commentary in recent months about the aggressive start Justice Neil Gorsuch has made since being sworn in on April 10, 2017. But how does the early stage of his tenure compare to those of his most recent predecessors, Justices Elena Kagan...