After the Florida school massacre, news organizations are engaging in a grim tradition: tallying the ever-growing list of school shootings in the U.S., and of mass shootings more generally, The Atlantic reports. The Daily Beast cited data from Everytown, the gun-control advocacy group, which called...
The 13th annual John Jay/Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America, which opens Thursday with a close look at the nation’s opioid crisis, will be accessible via livestream at John Jay College’s YouTube channel. Chief Paul Cell Featured speakers at the opening panels include Paul Cell,...
Clinical trials offer many mesothelioma patients a chance at trying an experimental drug or other novel treatment. But for the everyday Joe, understanding and navigating the language of mesothelioma clinical trials can be monumental. For example, ClinicalTrials.gov, which is a U.S. National Institutes of Health database,...
AR-15-style rifles have increasingly appeared in mass shootings, including the deadliest high school shooting in the modern history at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fl., Wednesday, as well as a Las Vegas concert, an Orlando night club, a Newtown, Ct., elementary school, and...
According to a report issued last month by New York City Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, the New York Police Department (NYPD) investigated some 1.3 million complaints about noise between 2010 and 2015—but they resulted in just 5,482 NYPD summons. The discrepancy needs a closer look. Noise ranks...
At least 17 people were shot to death and several others wounded Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in a horrific episode of school violence that ended with the arrest of a former student, reports the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Panicked...