Reality Winner, a former National Security Agency contractor and the first person to be prosecuted during the Trump administration for leaking classified information, pleaded guilty Tuesday to espionage, the Los Angeles Times reports. Prosecutors recommended that Winner, 26, serve five years and three months in...
Justice Anthony Kennedy announced Wednesday that he is retiring from the Supreme Court. The departure gives President Trump the chance to replace the court’s pivotal justice and dramatically shift the court to the right, setting up a bitter partisan showdown on Kennedy’s successor, the Washington...
Orlando, Fl., has ended a pilot program in which its police force used Amazon’s real-time facial recognition — a system called “Rekognition” that had triggered complaints from rights and privacy groups, NPR reports. Orlando’s deal to open part of its camera systems to Amazon was...
Three years ago, Darrell Hill, 76, a former Oregon police chief and county sheriff, nearly killed his wife of almost 57 years by shooting her accidentally. The lawman had been diagnosed with a form of rapidly progressive dementia, which quickly stripped him of reasoning and...
Compassionate release programs could be a useful and humane means of reducing the prison population if states were to use them more, according to a report released Wednesday by Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM). “Everywhere and Nowhere: Compassionate Release in the States” reviews the early-release programs...
President Trump’s victory in the Supreme Court’s ratification of his travel ban marked a milestone in his attempt to paint broad swaths of immigrants as dangerous, a rhetorical strategy that has underpinned the administration’s sweeping efforts to curtail immigration unilaterally, the Washington Post reports. Shunting...