Like many employees, Mark Janus was upset about deductions from his paycheck – specifically, the roughly $45 per month that goes to the local branch of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, the union that represents him. But unlike most employees, Janus...
When two Lenexa, Ks., siblings, 17 and 11, were stopped for speeding, both were questioned by police and put in handcuffs. “They searched my 11 year old as if he were a grown man,” their mother wrote in a complaint to the state. “The only...
The first update of the federal law on juvenile crime since 2002 is being blocked over a single senator’s concern over whether youths should be jailed for violating certain court orders, reports the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has long opposed measures...
President Trump made several misleading or incorrect statements in a speech Friday at the FBI’s training academy in Virginia, the New York Times reports. Most types of violent crime have declined in Chicago since last year, but Trump cited “the steepest two-year consecutive increase in...
The sheriff of Clermont County, Oh., firmly believes it’s a call of duty for his deputies to carry a nasal spray that brings people back from the brink of death by drug overdose. Less than 50 miles away, his counterpart in Butler County is dead...
The indictments of three companions of a man who died of a heroin overdose in the Cincinnati area, including his ex-wife, are part of a nationwide push to investigate overdose deaths as homicides and seek tough prison sentences against drug dealers and others deemed responsible....
Savvy litigators can often guess the outcome of a Supreme Court case by observing the oral argument. But it might also be possible to make that kind of prediction scientifically, through empirical analysis of the justices’ interactions with the advocates and with each other. In...
In the last decade, cybersecurity has become a major concern for businesses. A threat that was once paid lip service now dominates headlines on a monthly, if not weekly, basis. WannaCry and the latest Petya variant of ransomware have made international news as consumers reflect...
House members pressed new federal prison director Mark Inch last week on his agency’s decision not to renew 16 of about 180 contracts for halfway houses, causing some of them to shut down, Mother Jones reports. “Can you explain the rationale…?” asked Rep. Elijah Cummings...
Alex Kozinski, the powerful judge on the California-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit who was facing a judicial investigation over allegations that he subjected 15 women to inappropriate sexual behavior, announced Monday that he would retire immediately, the Washington Post reports. Kozinski...