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Investigators believe there are more people involved in the New York and New Jersey bombing plots than just Rahami, but they do not have a good idea who else might be involved, two U.S. officials told Reuters. There are more people involved in NY bomb plot: two U.S. officials Investigators have…
By JAY Z, MOLLY CRABAPPLE, JIM BATT and KIM BOEKBINDER | Sep. 15, 2016 | 3:58 Why are white men poised to get rich doing the same thing African-Americans have been going to prison for? Related: article: Jay Z: ‘The War on Drugs Is an Epic Fail’ Source: Jay Z: ‘The War on Drugs Is…
For more than a year, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has claimed that he would “love” to release his tax returns and prove to the public that he is indeed a very wealthy and charitable businessman. But, he’s said, there’s a hiccup that prevents him from doing so: The tax returns he filed between…
View this image › Jim Johnson, Baltimore County Police Department chief of police. Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call,Inc. ID: 9591600 One day after a BuzzFeed News investigation exposed how the Baltimore County Police Department declares many rape reports “unfounded” after only minimal investigation, the department has promised to “re-examine” three years’ worth of such reports….
Frederick Harran is the public safety director of the Bensalem Township Police Department in Pennsylvania, which has used the DNA program to solve burglaries. “This has probably been the greatest innovation in local law enforcement since the bulletproof vest,” he said. (Greg Kahn, special to ProPublica) The five teenage boys were sitting in a…
Rather than distance himself from Colin Kaepernick in the wake of the quarterback’s recent decision to protest the national anthem, San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York has taken a step firmly in support of him. The 49ers announced in a press release Thursday evening that York planned to donate $1 million to organizations working to…
Almost immediately after the 9/11 attack, while bodies were still buried in the rubble, George W. Bush demanded from Congress the legal authorization to use military force against those responsible for the attack, which everyone understood would start with an invasion of Afghanistan. The resulting resolution that was immediately cooked up was both vague and broad, providing…
All over America, people have put small “give one, take one” book exchanges in front of their homes. Then they were told to tear them down. Three years ago, The Los Angeles Times published a feel-good story on the Little Free Library movement. The idea is simple: A book lover puts a box or shelf…
PART ONE: ‘This Is What Human Trafficking Looks Like’ With the death of his mother last summer, Sigurds Zitars, a retired accountant, was the only family member left in University Place, Washington. Since 2006 “Sig” had been the clan’s caregiver, after his mother developed dementia and his father and sister both took ill. In January,…
Popular cloud storage firm Dropbox has been hacked, with over 68m users’ email addresses and passwords dumped on to the internet. The attack took place during 2012. At the time Dropbox reported a collection of user’s email addresses had been stolen. It did not report that passwords had been stolen as well. The dump of…