In Some States, the Death Penalty’s Days Might Be Numbered
Ted S. Warren/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After both the use of and popular support for capital punishment peaked in the 1990s, the frequency of the death penalty has fallen. Drug manufacturers have stopped supplying their products to states that want to use them in executions, while public backing…
A Damning New Report Says McKinsey Allegedly Helped Purdue Sell Even More Opioids
Toby Talbot/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For years, McKinsey & Company allegedly consulted for Purdue Pharma, the maker of the opioid OxyContin, on how to boost painkiller sales and counter bad PR—namely, “the emotional messages from mothers with teenagers that overdosed.” The relationship was revealed in a new explosive article by ProPublica’s David Armstrong based on Massachusetts’…
Trump Shut Down the Government to Protect National Security. He Hurt It Instead.
RomanBabakin/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two days before President Donald Trump finally agreed to end the longest government shutdown in American history, federal employees were already sounding the alarm about the threat posed to national security. From airport employees to FBI agents, Trump’s insistence on security at the southern…
“We’re About to Make Pimps’ Jobs Real Easy”: The Shutdown Has Put Trafficking Victims in Harm’s Way
Favor_of_God/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At Courtney’s House, a Washington, DC, center for young sex trafficking survivors, founder Tina Frundt has been seeing kids every day who are afraid of the government shutdown. They’re worried, she says, that it is affecting the many services they sorely need. She spoke of one 19-year-old she works…
Study: Gunshot Wounds Cost Us Nearly $1 Billion in Hospital Bills Every Year
ugurhan/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Researchers have long known that the impacts of gun violence ripple out far beyond victims and their families. But the price we pay as a country can be hard to measure, because data is hard to come by. (And the National Rifle Association is…
Chicago Cop Convicted of Murdering Black Teen Gets Nearly Seven Years in Prison
Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke attends his sentencing hearing in Chicago for the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald.Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/AP/Pool Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jason Van Dyke, the white former Chicago police officer who was convicted of second-degree murder in October for killing black 17-year-old Laquan McDonald…