Former New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was convicted of public-corruption crimes after a retrial in which the onetime powerful lawmaker took the stand in his own defense, reports the Wall Street Journal. A federal jury also found Skelos’s son Adam guilty. Skelos,...
Police officers have long had a presence in public schools. Since the deadly school shootings in Santa Fe, Tx., and Parkland, Fl., more Texas school children have found themselves facing police for actions the authors of a new study view as kids just being kids,...
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan named interim Police Chief Carmen Best for the permanent job Tuesday, choosing a local favorite over a pair of outside candidates, the Seattle Times reports. Durkan selected Best, a 26-year Seattle police veteran, after her advisers left Best off the list...
The growing use of anti-anxiety pills reminds some doctors of the early days of the opioid crisis. Considered relatively safe and non-addictive by the general public and many doctors, Xanax, Valium, Ativan and Klonopin have been prescribed to millions for decades to calm jittery nerves...
Allegations of sexual misconduct against Kentucky legislators have become so common that the statehouse has seemed more like a frat house: Seven have faced accusations, including four who settled secretly with a female legislative aide. The voters’ response has mostly been to keep them in...
Recent changes in the U.S. asylum system mean that as a place of refuge, America is largely closed for business, the New York Times reports. While migrants fleeing communist governments in Central America during the Cold War were welcomed in the 1980s, those arriving now...