It was nearly 40 years ago when the brutalized body of 20-year-old Inez Deaton was found in a field near a deserted Texas car wash. She had been raped and repeatedly stabbed with an ice pick, and for about two decades, her murder went unsolved....
James Alex Fields, who was accused of killing a woman and injuring dozens of others last summer by plowing his car into a crowd protesting white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., was indicted Wednesday on federal hate crime charges, the Wall Street Journal reports. The case...
A Libyan militia leader convicted in the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans was sentenced to 22 years in prison Wednesday, reports the Washington Post. A jury in November acquitted Ahmed Abu Khattala, 47, of murder and attempted murder...
In 2011, a national heroin epidemic was the equivalent of dry tinder, lacking only a match. Florida lit it up, the Palm Beach Post reports. Purdue Pharma and El Chapo had provided kindling: The company’s unprecedented marketing campaign for its blockbuster OxyContin painkiller did not...
States can now require internet retailers to collect sales taxes even if the retailer has no physical presence in the state. In South Dakota v. Wayfair, the Supreme Court overturned its 1992 decision in Quill Corporation v. North Dakota, which limited a state’s ability to impose...
The nascent liberal crusade to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency claimed modest victories this week, but the movement has a long way to go before ICE is put on ice, reports USA Today. On Monday, Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) said he would introduce...