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Being Black in America Almost Killed Me Part 2

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When Trymaine Lee began writing his first book, he didn’t realize that the gun violence he was reporting on was such a central part of his own story. But then he began digging into his family history, only to fully learn about a series of racially motivated murders involving his ancestors. Lee’s book, A Thousand […]

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The One Crime Trump Doesn’t Seem to Have a Problem With? Domestic Violence.

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Speaking at the Museum of the Bible on Monday, President Donald Trump repeated one of his favorite falsehoods as of late: That his deployment of the National Guard in Washington, DC, has virtually eliminated crime in the nation’s capital. That is, of course, not true. But if that outright falsehood was not egregious enough, consider […]

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Being Black in America Almost Killed Me Part 1

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trymaine Lee was in the middle of writing his first book when the unthinkable happened. At 38, a massive heart attack nearly took his life. That near-death experience forced him to reckon with the toll his reporting has taken on his life, including the years he’s spent chronicling gun violence involving Black […]

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Trump Rewards MAGA Attack Dog Attorney General With FBI Post

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When Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was sworn into office in 2023, then-Gov. Mike Parson joked that he had extracted a “blood oath” from the new appointee not to run for higher office too quickly. The state’s previous two attorneys general—Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt—had both used the position as an interim step to the […]

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Why Rehab Often Fuels Relapse Instead of Recovery

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The opioid crisis has been a quiet, deadly presence in America for a quarter-century now. Since 1999, it’s killed more than 800,000 people in the US. That’s more than the number of Americans who died in the Civil War. But in the background, another crisis has been simmering: the often-lawless patchwork of treatment centers and […]

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Ghislaine Maxwell Absolves Trump, and Everyone Else, in DOJ Interviews

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Ghislaine Maxwell has delighted MAGA loyalists by asserting that she never saw the man she is hoping will spring her from a 20-year prison sentence “in any inappropriate setting” throughout the years he spent hanging out with the late convicted sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. But Maxwell, convicted of sex trafficking minors and conspiracy, […]

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“I Made a Mistake”—How Texas Officials Criminalized a Woman for Legal Abortion Care

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This story was produced in partnership with CBS News. A South Texas woman who was arrested on murder charges in 2022 after using medication to terminate her pregnancy has alleged new details about her case against a local sheriff and prosecutors, claiming they violated her constitutional rights. Her August 12 court filing comes as the […]

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I Live Where DC Crime Actually Happens. Here’s What Trump Is Missing.

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On August 3, someone was shot about five blocks from my house in Washington, DC. Just two nights before, we had called 911 because of gunfire nearby—not an unusual occurrence. A week later, someone was murdered six or seven blocks away, in broad daylight. My neighborhood also has the usual urban scourges: porch pirates, the […]

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States Sue Over DOJ Demand to Hand Crime Victims to ICE

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More than 20 state attorneys general have filed suit against the Department of Justice (DOJ), alleging the Trump administration is unlawfully seeking to withhold critical funds for crime victims from states and nonprofits deemed noncompliant with its draconian immigration enforcement efforts. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Rhode Island on Monday, centers on […]

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Choose Your Child or Choose Recovery: The Impossible Decision Facing Addicted Mothers

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This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project,  a nonprofit news organization covering the US criminal justice system. April Lee was still functional in her opioid addiction, still walking her kids to school in Philadelphia, preparing her infant daughter’s bottles, when a sexual assault sent her teetering over the edge. She had been drugged at a […]

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What Police Weren’t Told About Tasers

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Kansas City police Officer Matt Masters first used a Taser in the early 2000s. He said it worked well for taking people down; it was safe and effective.  “At the end of the day, if you have to put your hands on somebody, you got to scuffle with somebody, why risk that?” he said. “You […]

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Government Documents Show Police Disabling AI Oversight Tools

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In April 2024, the American police tech firm Axon, which leads the market for police body cameras, released a tool it billed as “revolutionary”: Draft One, an AI-powered software package that would turn body camera footage and audio into intelligible police reports. Once best known for developing the Taser, Axon has transformed into a $50 […]

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