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The morning after the school massacre in Parkland, Fl., NBC’s “Today Show” asked Samantha Grady, a student who had witnessed the shooting of her best friend and classmate, “Do you know how [your friend] is doing?” “Yeah, unfortunately, she didn’t make it,” replied Grady, breaking...
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President Trump has not nominated a director of the Office on Violence Against Women in the Justice Department. That person oversees a budget of more than $450 million and is supposed to be the administration’s leading voice on domestic and sexual violence, both nationally and...
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President Trump will convene a meeting of governors and state attorneys general to make school safety “our top priority” after the Florida school shooting that left 17 people dead, the Wall Street Journal reports. The president made no reference to gun laws in six-minute speech....
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America “can’t arrest its way out of the opioid epidemic,” a top official of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) said Thursday.
Paul Cell, First Vice President of the IACP, called for an increase in collaborative efforts among law enforcement, health care workers and...
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One of the nation’s leading conservatives called on federal lawmakers Thursday to pass the newest version of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, and he urged President Donald Trump to sign it.
Mark Holden. Photo by John Ramsey/TCR
Mark Holden, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of...
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For the New Republic, Matt Ford suggests that by agreeing to review Gonzalez-Badillo v. United States, in which the petitioner argues that under the Fourth Amendment, “[h]is general acquiescence to a search of his bag … did not extend to the destruction of his personal...