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....
A cruise passenger is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl during an eastern Caribbean cruise, according to a newspaper in West Virginia where the young man resides. U.S. Federal prosecutors reportedly filed a motion for a guilty plea hearing in U.S. District Court in...
As I have previously noted on this site, climate change-related disclosure is a hot button issue for certain activist investors and non-governmental organization. A series of recent actions underscores the extent to which some groups are attempting to escalate these disclosure issues, with significant impact....
Today, the U.S. Coast Guard medevaced an 80-year-old passenger from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship off of the coast of North Carolina. The crew of the Adventure of the Seas requested the emergency medical evacuation of an 80-year-old female passenger who had suffered a stroke. The Coast...