After spiking to unprecedented levels last year, the bloodshed in Tijuana has continued at an unrelenting pace in the new year as two powerful drug trafficking organizations battle for control of the city’s lucrative street drug sales: The long-established Sinaloa cartel and a newer, aggressive...
The number of reported crimes against homeless people in Denver climbed nearly 42 percent over four years to 1,008 in 2017 even as suburban law enforcement agencies say more transients are being pushed to outlying communities by the threat of violence, the Denver Post reports....
In various shootings, bullets hit a young mother doing laundry with her toddler playing nearby, a 6-year-old boy in the back seat of a car on his way to football practice, and a 2-year-old boy sitting on his father’s lap. Each faces physical and psychological...
We expect additional orders from the January 12 conference on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. On Tuesday, the justices will hear oral argument in Hall v. Hall and Dalmazzi v. United States. On Wednesday the justices will hear oral argument in Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro...
A rapidly tightening labor market is forcing companies to consider workers they once would have turned away. That is providing opportunities to people who have long faced barriers to employment, such as criminal records, disabilities or prolonged bouts of joblessness, reports the New York Times....
A campaign to recall California judge Aaron Persky for his handling of a sexual-assault case involving a Stanford University swimmer could be headed for a June ballot, reports the Wall Street Journal. Backers submitted nearly 95,000 signatures last week seeking the recall of Persky, a...
Once known as the “capital of capital punishment,” Houston’s Harris County is now issuing more life without parole sentences than any other county in Texas, the Houston Chronicle reports. In 12 years since then-Gov. Rick Perry signed a life without parole (LWOP) bill into law,...
If there were a Cult of Trump, his supporters wouldn't criticize him. They do--oftener and in more serious ways than George W. Bush's fans criticized him. In response to: The Price of Trump: Year One Reflections on an Unconventional Presidency More Responses He’s Good and Bad on Foreign...
Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas gunman who opened fire on concertgoers in October, carefully prepared both for the attack and the investigation that would follow, the Washington Post reports. In newly released court documents that detail early days of the investigation, Paddock, 64, is described...
The petition of the day is: Loudoun County, Virginia v. Dulles Duty Free, LLC 17-904 Issues: (1) Whether the validity under the import-export clause of a non-discriminatory local business license tax calculated on the basis of gross receipts should be evaluated using the Supreme Court’s approach in Michelin...