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Why America Is Obsessed With True Crime

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In 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a street in New York City. He was convicted of murder several years later and given the maximum sentence—25 years to life in prison—on top of three additional years for two other convictions. From behind bars, Lennon began reckoning with his crime through in-prison writing workshops […]

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Florida’s Governor Is a Veteran. So Are Seven Inmates He’ll Send to the Execution Chamber This Year.

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This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. The caravan of executions started with a US Army veteran in March. It continued in May with a former Army Ranger who served in the Gulf War, then an Air Force veteran […]

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Executions Are Rising in the US. This Reverend Witnesses Them.

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About 2,100 people are on death row in America. Some have been there for decades, in part because executions have been on the decline in the US. But that’s changing. So far this year, 41 people have been executed, up from 25 last year, and six more executions are scheduled.  Early in his second term, […]

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How Trump’s DOJ Wiped Out a Pioneering Anti-Violence Nonprofit

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One Tuesday night in April, Mikaela Levons, head of development at Equal Justice USA (EJUSA), a criminal and racial justice nonprofit, had just wrapped up a phone call and was preparing to cook dinner for her kids when an email landed in her inbox. It came from the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) at the […]

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They’ve Never Been Arrested. Why Does the FBI List Thousands of Service Members as Likely Criminals?

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This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. Denise Rosales has never been arrested. She’s never been handcuffed. She’s never spent a night behind bars, never stood before a judge to profess her innocence. And yet, if you perform a […]

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George Santos Is Already Back on Network TV

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In a ridiculous social media post the day before he headed off to federal prison for what was supposed to be a more than seven-year sentence, disgraced ex-congressman and known fabulist George Santos wrote, “I may be leaving the stage (for now), but trust me legends never truly exit.” Less than three months later, Santos […]

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To Understand That Horrific Chicago Apartment Raid, Go Back in Time—to Texas

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Months before hundreds of federal immigration agents raided a rundown apartment complex in Chicago—some even rappelling onto the roof from Blackhawk helicopters in the early hours of September 30—local law enforcement had repeatedly visited the building to try to remove some immigrants living there, according to a longtime tenant. The immigrants, many from Venezuela, had […]

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Appeals Court: Trump Can’t Deploy National Guard on Chicago’s Streets

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The Trump administration has suffered yet another in its series of recent legal losses—this time over its attempt to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois. On Monday, state and local officials filed a lawsuit over federal officials’ attempt to take over and deploy National Guard troops in Illinois, alleging the move was “unlawful and dangerous.” […]

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The “War-Ravaged” Portland Only Exists in Trump’s Head

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First it was Los Angeles. Then, Washington, DC. Then, Memphis. Now, Portland, Oregon, is in President Donald Trump’s sights—just the latest Democratic city facing increased militarization. Last week, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social he was authorizing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth “to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland” from what he […]

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Sam Bankman-Fried and the Multibillion-Dollar Drama Over FTX’s Ruins

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Sam Bankman-Fried nervously sheds his dark brown prison jumpsuit to reveal athletic shorts and a loose-fitting gray T-shirt. “There’s this extremely dumb cat and mouse game where, for reasons no one has ever bothered to articulate, between the hours of like 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays, the only clothing we’re allowed to wear […]

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Trump’s Deportation Machine Has Diverted Some 42,000 Crime Fighters From Other Tasks

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President Donald Trump’s deportation army is growing by the day, and a shocking number of its foot soldiers don’t even work for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The vast majority, in fact, come from other law enforcement agencies. In January, the Trump administration started deputizing Justice Department officers to work for ICE’s Enforcement and […]

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The Secret Story of FTX’s Rise and Ruin: Part 1

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Sam Bankman-Fried was once called the “crypto king.” But in November 2022, his company, FTX, imploded within a matter of days. All around the world, customers of the cryptocurrency exchange were suddenly cut off from their money.  “I tried to withdraw an amount, you know, and it would spin and say, your, your withdrawal is […]

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