A Black Woman Running for Boston DA Is Out to Change the City’s Racist Sentencing Disparities
Rachael RollinsDiana Levine Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was an unusual scene: In a county jail in Boston, inmates sat face to face in June with a row of attorneys who wanted their votes. The attorneys were competing to become the Democratic nominee for Suffolk County’s top prosecutor, to…
Tennessee Is Going to Electrocute a Death Row Inmate
Tennessee’s death chamberMark Humphrey/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, 63-year-old Tennessee death row inmate Edmund Zagorski will be put to death in the electric chair. The inmate has been on death row for more than 30 years for the 1983 murders of John Dale Dotson and Jimmy Porter…
Women Who Face Prosecution for Self-Inducing an Abortion Finally Have a Number to Call
Mixmike/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During his campaign for president, Donald Trump told voters he believed that women who end their pregnancies should face “some form of punishment.” He soon walked back his remarks, but the statement, along with his promise (since fulfilled) to put anti-abortion justices on the…
Pittsburgh Shooter Used the Same Deadly Weapon That Led to Mass Murders in Parkland and Las Vegas
A memorial vigil in Pittsburgh Saturday night for the victims of the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue.Gene J. Puskar/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a press conference Sunday morning, federal officials announced new details about the deadly shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue Saturday morning. They…
Alabama Voters Could Ban Sheriffs From Pocketing Tax Money Meant to Feed Inmates
Richard Ernest Yap/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ten years ago, an Alabama sheriff paid $500 for half a truckload of corn dogs. It was a sweet deal for Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett, who liked to find free or donated food for his county jail so he could pocket the…
A Man Allegedly Groped a Woman on a Plane. He Told Investigators That Trump Says It’s OK.
Alexey Bychkov/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Florida man who was arrested Sunday after allegedly groping a woman who had been sleeping on a plane told authorities that President Donald Trump said it was acceptable to—in the words of a federal criminal complaint—”grab women by their private parts.” The…