Manhattan District Attorney Will No Longer Prosecute Minor Marijuana Cases
A man smokes marijuana at the Cannabis Parade and Rally in Manhattan on May 6, 2018.Luiz Rampelotto/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The district attorney’s office in Manhattan, New York City’s largest borough, will no longer file charges against defendants in most marijuana possession and smoking cases, the office announced…
That Racial Profiling Incident at Nordstrom Rack Apparently Wasn’t a First
A Nordstrom Rack in Columbia, MarylandTripplaar Kristoffer/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Danielle Stubblefield, 42, stood outside a Nordstrom Rack store feeling frustrated, desperately hoping to prevent what she believed was an instance of racial profiling from escalating. The police had been called on several black teenagers who had entered the…
A Connecticut Prison Has a Radical New Plan to Keep Young Inmates From Coming Back
This story was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Leona Godfrey was sitting down to dinner at a TGI Fridays in Orange, Connecticut, in December 2013 when she glanced at a television and saw her little brother’s name on the local news. Davon Eldemire…
“I Was Directed to Market OxyContin”: A Purdue Pharma Rep Tells How He Was Paid to Push Opioids
Pureradiancephoto/Getty When Sean Thatcher was a sales rep at Purdue Pharma, which makes OxyContin, doctors he visited often complained that their patients were developing tolerance to the opioid painkiller. Thatcher, who worked for the company between 2009 and 2015 in Montana, was instructed to tell the prescribers to increase the dose, and to clarify that…
The Supreme Court Will Review Case of a Man Whose Blood-Filled Tumors Could Burst During Execution
Chuck Myers/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Russell Bucklew, a death row inmate in Missouri who was scheduled to die on March 20. Hours before the execution was set to take place, the high court voted 5-4 to halt the…
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…