3 Dead After Listeria Outbreak in Washington State
Health officials in Washington State said on Friday that three people had died and two had been hospitalized in the Puget Sound area after contracting...
Mike Reynolds, Champion of California’s Three-Strikes Law, Dies at 79
Mike Reynolds, a California photographer who, after his daughter was murdered in 1992, became a driving force behind stricter sentencing reforms in his state, including...
‘Help Me!’ Sign Helps to Rescue a Kidnapped 13-Year-Old Girl
A 13-year-old Texas girl was kidnapped, driven across multiple state lines and then rescued after she held up a handmade “Help Me!” sign in a...
The Steep Cost of Ron DeSantis’s Vaccine Turnabout
On a Saturday in September 2020, with Covid-19 killing more than 600 Americans daily and hundreds of thousands of deaths still to come, Dr. Deborah...
The Question After Every Mass Shooting: How Much Do We Deserve to Know?
After every mass shooting it comes: recordings of pleading 911 calls, photos of the scene, grim evidence released by law enforcement. This tsunami of investigative...
Fact-Checking Mike Pence on the Campaign Trail
Since beginning his long-shot presidential campaign in June, former Vice President Mike Pence has struggled to gain traction among Republican primary voters. Mr. Pence has...
Tim Scott Is Turning Heads With Donors and Early-State Voters
He is rising in the polls and turning heads in Iowa and New Hampshire, behind heavy spending on ads that play to voters’ appetite for...
Lawyers Say Helping Asylum Seekers in Border Custody Is Nearly Impossible
In the first weeks after President Biden’s new border policies were put in place, his administration recorded a sharp drop in the number of people...
Death of Melissa Perez in San Antonio Raises Questions on Police Response
The San Antonio Police Department, like the police in other cities, has a Mental Health Unit available around the clock to respond to calls that...
San Diego Library Protest Against Pride Books Draws a Backlash
Adrianne Peterson, the manager of the Rancho Peñasquitos branch of the San Diego Public Library, was actually a little embarrassed by the modest size of...
Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez’s Business Targeted With Bad Reviews After Student Loan Vote
Dean’s Car Care, an auto repair shop in Portland, Ore., used to regularly rack up five stars and gushing accolades on Yelp and Google Reviews...
Fargo Gunman Searched Mass Shootings Online
The gunman who the authorities say killed a Fargo, N.D., police officer and wounded two others on July 14 had searched online for mass shootings...
An Untested Judge in the Trump Documents Case
Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a previously obscure Trump judicial appointee, has been viewed with incredulity by much of the legal establishment ever since she issued...
Alabama Lawmakers Decline to Create New Majority-Black Congressional District
Alabama Republicans pushed through a new congressional map on Friday that will test the bounds of a judicial mandate to create a second majority-Black district...