Three Tennessee death row inmates are set to die in 2018, setting up what would be the first executions in the state since 2009, The Tennessean reports. The executions are scheduled to start in May. Neysa Taylor, a spokeswoman for the corrections department, said the...
An acute staffing shortage of customs officers at the border has gotten so dire that the government is pulling screeners from airports and reassigning them to southern Arizona on an emergency basis, the Washington Post reports. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has deployed 175...
Congressional passage of a long-fought surveillance bill is the first big legislative win in nearly five years for the national security community, which has faced restrictions since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked details about the government’s most secret spying programs, reports Politico. Republican hawks...
Phoenix detectives were assembling a jigsaw puzzle of sorts in the past month, piecing together witness statements and physical evidence to mount a nine-victim homicide case against 35-year-old Cleophus Cooksey Jr., the Arizona Republic reports. Key information was gleaned two days after Cooksey’s Dec. 17...
In 2015, federal judge Leo Sorokin of Boston started a pilot program he had been envisioning for years. He called it RISE—Repair, Invest, Succeed, Emerge. RISE offered a rare second chance for adult defendants convicted of serious federal crimes to avoid prison, reports the American...
On January 12, the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas closed its doors for another year. Each CES raises a new set of technology themes, ranging from robots to smart fridges — and this year, the winner was voice technologies. Such technologies, while...
Legal teams can play a major role in helping clients reduce vulnerabilities, minimize consequences, and hasten responses to cyber attacks, but doing so requires a focus around the changing nature of the underlying risk. Let’s take three areas where lawyers play crucial counseling roles: liability...
Two computer scientists have cast more doubt on the accuracy of risk assessment tools. After comparing predictions made by a group of untrained adults to those of the risk assessment software COMPAS, authors found that the software “is no more accurate or fair than predictions made...
Resignations in protest aren't always what they seem, and they mean a lot less when they come from individuals whose terms expire in a few months....
A team of officers swarmed a home in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday with the goal of arresting Shayla Lynette Towles Pierce on an outstanding warrant. The early morning raid kicked off a horrific firefight that killed U.S. deputy marshal Christopher Hill, wounded two officers and left...