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FILE — A Black Lives Matter demonstration in Portland, Ore., July 30, 2020, during the months of protests following the death of George Floyd. Any significant police reforms across the U.S. are likely to require dismantling deeply ingrained systems that shield officers from scrutiny and make it difficult to remove them. (Mason Trinca/The New York Times) XNYT165

December 22, 2020 at 4:45 pm

How U.S. cities lost control of police discipline VIEW

In the chaos of 1960s Detroit, a fledgling police union laid the groundwork for a system that, to this day, constrains discipline for officers accused...

July 18, 2020 at 10:31 am

The quiet life of Derek Chauvin before the public death of George Floyd

MINNEAPOLIS — The four teenagers drove around playing a game of Nerf Gun Assassin on a May evening before graduation in 2013. One of them...

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June 27, 2020 at 10:55 am

The Black officer who detained George Floyd had pledged to fix the police

MINNEAPOLIS — There were two Black men at the scene of the police killing in Minneapolis last month that roiled the nation. One, George Floyd,...

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June 4, 2020 at 6:24 pm

Officers charged in George Floyd’s death unlikely to present united front

MINNEAPOLIS — Two of the former police officers charged with aiding and abetting in the killing of George Floyd turned on the senior officer accused...

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A patient at the Life Care Center of Kirkland in Kirkland, Wash., on March 16, 2020. California, New Jersey and New York have made nursing homes accept COVID-19 patients from hospitals, but residents and workers fear the policy is risking lives. Connecticut and Massachusetts designated certain facilities for COVID-19 patients alone — considered the safest way to free up hospital beds. The Washington Health Care Association, which represents long-term care facilities in Washington state, has asked officials to adopt a similar policy; so far, they have not. (Grant Hindsley / The New York Times)

April 24, 2020 at 2:26 pm

‘Playing Russian roulette’: Nursing homes are told to take the infected VIEW

COVID-19 has killed more than 10,500 residents and staff members at nursing homes and long-term care facilities nationwide. But states are increasingly turning to nursing...

May 24, 2011 at 11:06 am

Inside the campaign to release Al-Jazeera English journalist Dorothy Parvaz

The phone call came in the middle of the night last month, when my brother Todd and I were visiting our father in a suburb...

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April 13, 2011 at 10:05 pm

‘Spillionaires’ the new rich after Gulf crisis

The oil spill that was once expected to bring economic ruin to the Gulf Coast appears to have delivered something different: a gusher of money...

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March 4, 2009 at 12:00 am

Cricket-team attack ramps up conflict

With Tuesday's fatal commando-style attack on Sri Lanka's visiting cricket team, the severity of the crisis hit home for many Pakistanis who never thought terrorism...

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December 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

Pakistan moves troops toward India

The reported movement of troops toward Pakistan's border with India on Friday raised the threat of war between the two nuclear-armed rivals and will distract...

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December 18, 2008 at 12:00 am

This Afghan governor gets results

Gul Agha Shirzai, 54, has become extremely popular in a country where government officials are often extremely not. He is known for his ability to...

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