Man accused of killing 5 at Wisconsin parade had lengthy police record
WAUKESHA, Wis. — He had been arrested time and again since he was a teenager, accused of battery and domestic abuse and resisting police.
With 11 Million Cases in the U.S., the Coronavirus Has Gotten Personal for Most People
As COVID-19 cases surge in almost every part of the country, passing 11 million on Sunday, the United States is approaching a significant tipping point...
An earthquake, an orphanage, and new beginnings for Haitian children in America
After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, 19 children from one orphanage were flown to the U.S. to be adopted by American families. One would later...
Thousands of complaints do little to change police ways
Efforts to hold problem officers accountable face resistance from unions, and juries are reluctant to second-guess.
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...