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Chula Vista police have deployed drones and other tech. Now residents are pushing back, after reports that data was shared with immigration... Read More

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyThe mountain hamlet of Crested Butte, Colorado, covers less than a square mile and, at an... Read More

In “Rules for Radicals,” Saul Alinsky urged community activists to hold the enemy accountable to its own rules. “No organization,”... Read More

When a multimillionaire offers a massive reward for her missing cat, searchers race each other across a ritzy island filled with mysteries. Read More

The South Florida school superintendent overseeing Parkland schools has resigned amid continuing criticism over the 2018 mass shooting there... Read More

In 2016 influential political leaders, activists, and media outlets in Los Angeles said they had a simple solution to homelessness: build... Read More

The American Federation of Teachers lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on, and even suggested language for, the federal... Read More

As landlords and tenants go broke across the U.S., the next crisis point of the pandemic approaches. Read More

An internal dispute at the Treasury Department shows the challenge of tracking trillions of dollars of economic relief money. Read More

Vaccine makers depend on each other for the essential ingredients to produce Covid-19 shots. Trade experts warn that restrictions on vaccine... Read More

Resistance is widespread in white, Republican communities like this one in Appalachia. But it’s far more complicated than just a partisan... Read More

At the start of the pandemic, we asked four incarcerated people to chronicle daily life with the coronavirus. Here, they reveal what they... Read More

Behind the scenes from starter cells to a finished vaccine. Read More

Scientists are worrying a lifetime of autoimmune disease could be caused the autoantibodies made during covid infections. Read More

The Central Intelligence Agency earned ridicule on Twitter after it recently released an advertisement profiling a "cisgender millennial"... Read More

Of 70 people bailed out of the jail since late May of last year, 25 were charged with 108 felonies and 49 misdemeanor or municipal code... Read More

One juror described the seven hours of closed-door deliberations that led to Derek Chauvin’s murder conviction. Read More

An anti-discrimination group is challenging Coca-Cola’s attempt to impose racial quotas on outside counsel. Read More

It would be foolish to deny that there’s a specific significance when citizens are unjustly killed by the police, as a jury in Minneapolis... Read More

A Los Angeles-based jail reform group led by BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors spent nearly $26,000 for "meetings" at a luxury Malibu... Read More

The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is moving to eliminate all accelerated math options prior to 11th grade, effectively keeping... Read More

Hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers could be sharing personal info without their knowledge or consent. Read More

The Tesla and SpaceX chief has become one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs by reinventing industries from electric cars to... Read More

10 years after Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto's disappeared, Pete Rizzo distills the full story of his time as project leader into one... Read More

It was supposed to be an easy gig. Jason Glick had been acting for more than 30 years, mostly in stage productions, but the occasional... Read More

The chief executives of Facebook and Apple have opposing visions for the future of the internet. Their differences are set to escalate this... Read More

Politicians from the UK, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania tricked by fake meetings with opposition figures Read More

Who makes money from destroying reputations online? Read More

Cryptocurrency mining uses huge amounts of power—and can be as destructive as the real thing. Read More

The name’s Klain — President Klain. Washington insiders delight in assigning the White House chief of staff this mischievous title as the... Read More

Hansjörg Wyss, who recently dropped his bid to buy Tribune Publishing, has been a leading source of difficult-to-trace money to groups... Read More

The Biden administration is considering using outside firms to track extremist chatter by Americans online, an effort that would expand the... Read More

As Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney suspended in-person campaign efforts and told constituents to stay home to fight coronavirus, the New York... Read More

President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, still owns a stake in a Chinese private equity firm 100 days into his father’s presidency after the... Read More

Two brothers, alike in dignity, among the British monarchy where we lay our scene, are grappling with ancient grudges. Will it—should... Read More

Chinese leader Xi Jinping personally directed the communist regime to focus its efforts to control the global internet, ... Read More

Sixty years after the Bay of Pigs, the Castro brothers are gone from the main stage, and Cuba is a threadbare place facing an uncertain... Read More

The Makena set out for Halifax in fine weather under the steady hand of a respected skipper. It would be the yacht’s last voyage—and only... Read More

The investigation could result in a criminal referral. Read More

Afghans are coming forward to describe past alleged killings by Australian forces, as the Australian government launches investigations into... Read More

Between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. How did we do it? Science mattered — but so did activism. Read More

Master criminal Rédoine Faïd loved the movies, and his greatest crimes were laced with tributes: to "Point Break," "Heat," and "Reservoir... Read More

Should humans care whether all creatures live good lives, even in the forests or jungles? A group of philosophers and scientists has an... Read More

New regulations force perfume makers to reformulate some exalted brands. Read More

How the quest to own the tiniest, most Instagram-worthy and low-maintenance pup has bred a world of problems. Read More

Cultivating weed can be an emissions-heavy industry, and requiring each state to grow its own is making it worse Read More

More than 1,000 prisoners at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Otay Mesa have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic... Read More

China rounded up so many Muslims in Xinjiang that there wasn't enough space to hold them. Then the government started building. Read More

ProPublica reporters uncover abuse and impunity inside the NYPD, using confidential documents and insider interviews, giving the public... Read More

When cops kill civilians lawfully armed under the Second Amendment, they are often protected from liability by the legal doctrine called... Read More

A trial reveals flaws in the case against Silvon Simmons. A city council pushes to enable civilians to investigate and discipline cops. U.S.... Read More