New York State Officials Recommend Legalizing Marijuana
A man smokes marijuana at a protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in April 2015.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the United States faces a devastating opioid epidemic, New York State officials have offered up one potential alternative: marijuana. In a report released Friday by the New…
We’re Seeing an Epidemic of #BBQBecky-Type Calls. Here’s How Police Could Deal With Them.
A screenshot from the viral #BBQBecky video.Michelle Snider/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, Erica Walker, then manager of an apartment complex in Memphis, Tennessee (she was subsequently fired), became the latest white person to gain notoriety for calling police on a black person—in this case because the man…
Nevada Is About to Kill an Inmate Using a Drug Mix That’s Never Been Tried Before
Hailshadow/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update, 10:45 a.m.: Alvogen, the company from which Nevada obtained midazolam, filed a lawsuit against the state Tuesday afternoon*. The company is alleging that despite a clear warning that its product could not be used in executions, Nevada purchased the drugs by “subterfuge.” The…
Trump Says White Supremacist Terror Is Fake News. These Chilling Cases Prove Otherwise.
Suspects in custody in Portland, OR, and Orange County, CABeth Nakamura/The Oregonian/AP; Ken Steinhardt/The Orange County Register/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Four days after a homemade bomb blew through the window of a mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota, in August 2017, Sebastian Gorka, then a national security aide to President…
The Feds Are Locking Up Immigrant Kids—Who Have Committed No Crimes—In Juvie
Migrant children at a temporary shelter in Florida in June.Brynn Anderson/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shortly after reaching the United States and turning himself over to Border Patrol, Alonzo, a 16-year-old immigrant from El Salvador, was invited to speak with a psychologist at the Bristow, Virginia, shelter where…
At Least 5 People Killed in Maryland Newspaper Shooting
Maryland police officers block the intersection at the building entrance, after multiple people were shot at a newspaper in Annapolis, Md., Thursday, June 28, 2018.Jose Luis Magana/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At least five people were killed and several others injured Thursday afternoon when a gunman opened fire at…