San Francisco becomes first major city to ban facial-recognition technology
It is the first such move by a major city against the use of the technology by police and all other municipal agencies. Civil liberty...
Opioid users call kratom a godsend. The FDA says it’s a menace.
Several million Americans are now believed to be using the herbal powdered supplement, long touted as a mood booster and pain reliever and now seen...
A mobster of many enemies, Whitey Bulger may have been killed in a hit
James “Whitey” Bulger had amassed enemy after enemy over a lifetime of murder, extortion, double-crossing and — in a breach of the cardinal rule of...
Mandalay Bay gun-stash case from 2014 may play into Las Vegas massacre
The Dunbar case, which attracted little public attention at the time, is being raised by lawyers for victims of last year’s Las Vegas massacre who...
Guns, dead boy’s body and puzzle for officers at squalid compound in New Mexico
Anyone trying to drop out of sight could do a lot worse than the hills surrounding this remote outpost in northern New Mexico, dotted with...
Las Vegas gunman’s wealth may go to victims
The lawyers have asked a Nevada court to set up the estate so that the money can be distributed, without lawsuits, to families of the...
‘Ghost Ship’ was invisible in Oakland, until 36 died in fire
The Oakland warehouse is close to a firehouse. Yet amid haphazard inspection protocols, it became the site of America’s worst structure fire in a decade.
‘Alt-right’ movement tries to rebrand itself
The movement is image-conscious, seeing the burning crosses, swastikas and language of yesteryear as impediments to recruitment.