Research investigates escalating jail mortality rates
The family of Samuel Lawrence, one of 10 people to die in Georgia's Fulton County Jail in 2023, is fighting for answers and accountability.
The family of Samuel Lawrence, one of 10 people to die in Georgia's Fulton County Jail in 2023, is fighting for answers and accountability.
Social Sciences
Nov 13, 2023
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In the months leading up to his 2012 attack that killed 26 people in Newtown, Connecticut, a 20-year-old man exhibited a cascade of concerning behaviors. He experienced worsening anorexia, depression and obsessive-compulsive ...
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2023
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In 2016, North Carolina enacted legislation providing legal protections to people who make use of programs designed to reduce harms associated with illegal drug use. However, a new study finds these legal protections are ...
Social Sciences
Sep 29, 2022
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This month, Spanish police authorities seized autonomous underwater vehicles, each capable of transporting around 200 kilograms of drugs. It's not the first time police authorities have caught an uncrewed vessel carrying ...
Political science
Jul 25, 2022
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A famed grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park survived its first wildfire in more than a century, thanks to efforts to regularly burn the undergrowth beneath the towering trees, a forest ecologist who toured the ...
Environment
Jul 13, 2022
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The world's love for chocolate has helped decimate protected forests in western Africa as some residents have turned protected areas into illegal cocoa farms and hunting grounds.
Ecology
Nov 21, 2019
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California firefighters battled through the night to contain a fast-moving wildfire driven by high winds that was threatening to engulf thousands of buildings.
Environment
Oct 24, 2019
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Attorney General William Barr issued a sharp warning that time may be running out for Facebook Inc. and other technology companies to come to a voluntary agreement providing law enforcement officials with access to the encrypted ...
Internet
Jul 24, 2019
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In August 2016, the lifeless bodies of a young French man and woman were discovered on a beach in Madagascar, with murder suspected.
Internet
May 12, 2019
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The crime of human trafficking—defined by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as modern-day slavery that "involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act—is notoriously ...
Machine learning & AI
Apr 9, 2019
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