The Breakthrough DNA Technique That Led Cops to the Golden State Killer Suspect Is Exciting—and Terrifying
Golden State Killer suspect Joseph DeAngelo (left) and a police sketch of the suspected serial killerSacramento County Sheriff’s Department/FBI/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When the serial murderer now known as the Golden State Killer committed his crimes across California in the 1970s and ’80s, he was extremely careful not…
A Federal Jury Just Fined the Pork Industry $50 Million for Being Bad Neighbors
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For decades, the largely African-American communities situated near massive hog operations on North Carolina’s coastal plain have endured fetid odors that trigger eye irritation, difficulty breathing, and feelings of stress and anxiety. On Thursday, 10 hog-country residents got some relief. In the first verdict in…
Puerto Rico, Still Reeling from Hurricane Maria, Is Hit by an Island-Wide Blackout
Ricardo Arduengo via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Puerto Rico’s power grid collapsed again on Wednesday, according to multiple reports. The grid has been unstable since Hurricane Maria devastated the island in September. In the town where the storm made landfall, just 35 percent of residents had power…
Trump’s War on Data Could Quietly Erase LGBT Crime Victims
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Department of Justice is looking to stop asking 16- and 17-year-olds about their sexual orientation and gender identity in the National Crime Victimization Survey. Critics say the move is a way for legislators to leave LGBT teens out of policy decisions. The twice-a-year national…
Stressed, Struggling, and Suicidal: America’s Farmers Are Begging for Mental Health Services
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Farmers’ advocacy groups called on Congress Monday to reauthorize, “with adequate funding,” a program that provides mental health services to distressed American farmers and their families. “Despite the growing need,” notes a letter to House and Senate agricultural committees signed by 36 rural and farming…
California Police Killed Stephon Clark. State Lawmakers Want to Make it Harder for History to Repeat Itself.
Demonstrators protest the police killing of Stephon Clark in Sacramento.Hector Amezcua/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two California lawmakers on Tuesday introduced legislation to restrict when police officers in the state can use lethal force, requiring them to use such force only when there is no opportunity to use a…