Ever since Shawn Fanning launched Napster from his Northeastern University dorm in 1999 and upended the music business, every industry has been on guard about a potential tech disruption. There’s legitimate cause for such concern. Uber really has changed the taxi and limousine industry. Airbnb has...
Six undocumented immigrants told a Laredo, Tx., police officer two weeks ago that with the help of smugglers, they had crossed the Rio Grande a few days earlier. After being shuttled from one house to the next, they ended up at a mobile home in...
The rallying cry from some liberals to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency isn’t a likely winner this election year. A new survey found only a quarter of Democrats support eliminating the agency that carried out the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children...
Authorities are investigating why a player at a video-game tournament in Jacksonville, Fl., gunned down two people and wounded 11 others Sunday, an incident that has prompted calls for more security at gaming events, reports USA Today. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said the lone shooter,...
Criminal justice reforms are under attack in the Trump era and require immediate attention from state and local governments, as well as action from the formerly incarcerated, according to a Yale Law professor. Author Miriam Gohara, writing in the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil...
When Rita Armaganian went to visit her 80-year-old next-door neighbor, Hilda Bassett in Warwick, R.I., she noticed a small spot of blood on Hilda’s cheek and a large bruise. Her glasses lay broken. Bassett admitted that her daughter had slapped her in the face. The...