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...
A dispute over how to deter a flourishing online sex trade is likely to escalate into a high-profile policy battle in 2018, adding to political headaches for big tech, reports the Wall Street Journal. Lawmakers for months have been working on ways to address the...
Major cities across the globe–especially those still on edge from recent terrorist attacks–are planning extraordinary security measures as revelers gather Sunday on New Year’s Eve. In New York, concrete barriers, explosives-sniffing dogs and armed cops in surrounding hotels will be in place when police lock down...
Romanian ransomware hackers took over most of Washington, D.C.’s outdoor surveillance cameras just before President Trump’s inauguration, reports the Washington Post. A federal criminal complaint unsealed Thursday said the January attack affected 123 of the D.C. police department’s 187 outdoor surveillance cameras, leaving them unable...
Starting in January, Illinois will bar a rare criminal defense allowing the use of a victim’s sexual orientation as justification for violent crime, a ban gay rights advocates say they will attempt to replicate in about half a dozen states in 2018, reports the Associated...
In some of North Carolina’s most dangerous prisons, officers have been skipping a crucial part of their job for years by failing to perform their required 30-minute security checks. Instead, officers falsified prison records to indicate they had made their rounds, reports the Charlotte Observer....
Opioid overdoses prompted a second straight decline in life expectancy in the United States last year. Yet life expectancy in other developed countries is going up because people elsewhere are not dying from opioids at the rates they are in the U.S., which has4 percent...
The number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty dropped sharply in 2017, marking the second-lowest toll in more than 50 years, says USA Today. As of Thursday, 128 officers have died in the line of duty this year, with 44 shot...
In the eighth of nine of editorials about gun violence, the New York Times says the ATF, the federal law enforcement agency charged with enforcing gun laws, is too understaffed to mount meaningful investigations of those who try to buy guns illegally. Last year, at...
A Cleveland police officer was fired Thursday for the 2015 fatal shooting of an unarmed burglary suspect, reports the Plain Dealer. Alan Buford was terminated after city officials found that he used excessive force in the March 19, 2015, death of Brandon Jones, 18. The...