The Trump administration says it has complied with a judge’s order and reunited all of the eligible children under the age of 5 that it had in custody with their migrant parents, the New York Times reports. Administration officials said the government had reunited 57...
Unlike many asbestos-containing materials, vinyl asbestos flooring is generally safe to be around. But that changes as soon as you decide to remove it. Vinyl is a type of plastic that has long been a popular material for floor tiles and sheets. Old vinyl products that...
Federal prosecutions of shady importers have increased 900 percent over the past 16 years, but officials can barely cope with a swelling volume of trade fraud that costs the government millions of dollars in lost revenue and endangers consumer safety, according to a study in...
As millions of fans gear up for this weekend’s World Cup Final, a new report warns there is little prospect that efforts to clean up soccer corruption inside the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) will succeed. “After more than a century of scandals and a...
Advocates of the 11-year-old national Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) are worried that the Trump administration plans to scuttle federal involvement in the project. JRI encourages states to reduce prison populations and reinvest money that is saved in programs that help ex-inmates reenter society successfully. The advocates’ concern...
Presidential pardon seekers, having once put their hopes in an opaque bureaucratic process, are now approaching their shot at absolution as if marketing a hot start-up: scanning their network of acquaintances for influence and gauging degrees of separation from celebrity, the New York Times reports....