A 8 year-old girl died Saturday morning after falling from a deck in an interior atrium to a lower deck on the Carnival Glory. A representative of Miami Fire-Rescue Department said the child fell "about two stories" inside the Carnival cruise ship around 8:15 a.m....
We expect orders from the October 13 conference on Monday at 9:30 a.m. The justices will meet next for their October 27 conference. The calendar for the November sitting, which begins on October 30, is available on the Supreme Court’s website. The post This week at...
An Oklahoma youth, Deonte Green, appeared in juvenile court less than two weeks before he is alleged to have raped an 81-year-old woman and killed a teacher in a robbery attempt. The judge released the 16-year-old on probation despite prosecutor concerns that he would “hurt...
In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its most potent weapon against drug companies suspected of spilling prescription narcotics onto the nation’s streets, the Washington Post and “Sixty Minutes” report. The...
In Philadelphia, a city with more than 1,000 shootings a year, shootings are down six percent this year and violent crime overall is dropping. Philly.com says police tactics are changing. Before an officer stepped out of his car to investigate a recent shooting, a team...
The Trump administration has been cutting support for halfway houses for federal prisoners, severing contracts with as many as 16 facilities in recent months, Reuters reports. The cuts are prompting concern that some inmates are being forced to stay behind bars longer than necessary. Bureau...
The deaths of two North Carolina prison employees last week, six months after a third employee’s death, point to unsafe working conditions within the state’s prisons, the group representing state employees tells the Charlotte Observer. Working inside the prisons has long been a dangerous job....
The great insight of Alexander Hamilton is that all serious nations take serious measures on behalf of their own security and prosperity. This is what good governments do. There is a clarity here that is absent from our current partisan debates, if only because Hamilton...
During the acrimonious decades of the Cold War, countries could be divided into three groups: those aligned with the United States; those aligned with the Soviet Union; and those aligned to neither, the so-called “non-aligned” states. Countries in the first group often chose to refer to...
Perhaps, amid the profound divisions revealed by the national conversation over Confederate monuments, consensus could emerge over this: If their removal is justified, it should be carried out in the light of day. That is the proper milieu for a serious civic moment whose purpose is...