California Cops Shot and Killed 162 People Last Year. This Bill Could Help Reduce the Bloodshed.
Riot police officers stand guard at street after the World Cup match between Mexico and Brazil in Huntington Park, California, on Monday, July 2, 2018. Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A California bill that would radically change the standard for the use of deadly force by police officers…
How Misidentifying Trans Victims of Violence Can Undermine Criminal Investigations
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Aea Celestice, a black transgender woman living in Jacksonville, Florida, has the most basic of plans for the next chapter of her life: She hopes to get out of town before someone kills her. Celestice, 32,…
A Court Finally Forced the Government to Ban this Gnarly Neurotoxic Pesticide
Crop sprayer spraying pesticides on crops in field.simonkr/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last March, former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt abruptly reversed the agency’s own proposal to ban chlorpyrifos, a neurotoxic pesticide widely used by US farmers. Yesterday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals finally ordered the EPA to…
Argentina’s Senate Votes to Reject Legal Abortion
Supporters of legal abortion comfort each other after senators rejected the bill.Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a highly anticipated vote, Argentinian senators early Thursday rejected a bill that would have legalized abortion for pregnancies no further along than 14 weeks. The vote, which followed 16 hours of…
Worker Charged With Sexually Molesting Eight Children at Immigrant Shelter, New Records Show
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. It includes graphic details of alleged sexual violence against minors. A youth care worker for Southwest Key has been charged with 11 sex offenses after authorities accused him of molesting at least eight unaccompanied immigrant boys over…
Supreme Court Says Kids Can Sue Trump Over Climate Change
Youth plaintiffs, attorneys, and staff from Our Children’s Trust at the federal courthouse in Eugene after a hearing in the Juliana v. United States climate change lawsuit in June.Robin Loznak via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s effort to stop a…