A Maple Heights, Ohio, man plotted to set off a bomb at the Fourth of July fireworks celebration in downtown Cleveland in an attempt to “strike at the values at the very core of our nation,” reports Cleveland.com. Demetrius Pitts, 48, expressed a desire to...
What if the influencer you had been following on Instagram—an influencer whose style choices you admired, and who supported social causes that you believed in—turned out to be…a robot? This is what happened to followers of Lil Miquela, a 19-year old model from California who launched...
Alexis Santa Barbara is a 39-year-old mother of three from a working-class suburb of Philadelphia. In March, her neighbor handed Santa Barbara $10 and asked if she’d score him a fix of heroin. “It was just a favor, said her daughter. “She’d never mean to...
After the killings at an Annapolis newspaper, news organizations are on high alert, with some beefing up security. The fatal shooting of five employees of the Capital Gazette seems to have deepened a general sense among journalists that the ugly emails and phone calls they...
Last year, veterans groups hailed the extension of the Veterans Choice Program. Under the program, the Veterans Administration (VA) can cover the cost of private health care when veterans face difficulty being treated within the VA system. It gives veterans with service-connected mesothelioma a way to...
In the highest-profile case involving a technology that has raised privacy concerns, authorities used a facial-recognition system to identify the man charged with carrying out last week’s deadly attack at the Annapolis Capital Gazette. The Anne Arundel County Police Department fed a photograph of the...