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When groups of sinister drones began hovering over homes in America’s Midwest, the FBI, US Air Force and 16 police forces set up a task... Read More

Barney Harris, the men's basketball coach at Union Academy, was killed in a shootout with a Mexican drug cartel in Alamance County, North... Read More

Despite pledging to recuse herself from contracts involving her partner “as necessary,” the councilwoman-turned-House-candidate approved... Read More

Georgia’s Valdosta High School, a longtime football powerhouse, is awash in a scandal involving race, funny money, allegations of improper... Read More

Young people in a Missouri college town kept killing themselves. A parent of one victim is convinced that her son’s friend encouraged the... Read More

The money was intended to help poor and homeless people. Feds say John Lynch spent it on trips to resorts, shopping sprees and a new roof on... Read More

Michael Savage used his position at San Francisco’s Presidio to stir up a controversy over Japanese American internment. Read More

Experts say we should investigate “breakthrough infections” to look out for variants and understand who’s vulnerable. In many cases,... Read More

Beijing's science stooges are being unmasked by an international team of online sleuths Read More

Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine. Read More

Since March 2020, New York Times reporters have tracked every known coronavirus case in every correctional setting in the nation. More than... Read More

This week, Florida expanded eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines to all residents 16 and older. But across the state, more than 70,000 people... Read More

As the winter’s surge of coronavirus cases overwhelmed Los Angeles hospitals, EMTs like Michael Diaz were forced to take previously... Read More

The former progressive champion, who now works on behalf of corporate interests, joins the drug industry in arguing against sharing the... Read More

Progressive congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.) has called rent cancellation legislation "literally a matter of life and death," but... Read More

The aftermath of the George Floyd protests and a decreased reliance on standardized tests have led to more diverse admissions at elite... Read More

Cases of weapons confusion like the Daunte Wright shooting are rare but avoidable, say experts who blame inadequate training in most... Read More

There is growing evidence that in New England and across the United States there are likely thousands of male victims of commercial sexual... Read More

Of 51 editors at NEJM, just one was Black and one was Hispanic as of October. Of 49 editors at JAMA, two were Black and two were Hispanic. Read More

Companies from PayPal to AMC have signaled they will support joining effort for voter access. Read More

As protests broke out across the country in the name of Black Lives Matter, the group’s co-founder went on a real estate-buying binge,... Read More

Could a racial priority for getting a Covid-19 vaccine turn out to be just the first stop on the way to race-based tax rates? A tax bill that... Read More

The Markup found industry fingerprints on at least five bills around the country—weak laws, experts say, that are designed to preempt... Read More

Russian hackers exploited gaps in U.S. defenses and spent months in government and corporate networks in one of the most effective cyber... Read More

Whistleblower points to double standard in Facebook’s enforcement of rules against powerful Read More

From monitoring drivers with cameras to hiring Pinkerton spies to surveil European warehouse workers, Amazon keeps a close eye on its workers. Read More

While other Trump staffers became near-household names, Kashyap P. “Kash” Patel flew largely beneath the radar during the Trump... Read More

From booking salon appointments to buying gold nut bowls, Mike Pompeo and his wife, Susan, asked State employees to carry out personal tasks... Read More

A stalking case against a Florida tax collector metastasized after authorities arrested him and seized electronic records pointing to the... Read More

The administration is past a self imposed 60-day deadline to review resources for the wall. And it’s still taking land for it. Read More

Progressives thought they knew what a Biden presidency would look like. How did they get him so wrong? Read More

Azimuth unlocked the iPhone at the center of an epic legal battle between the FBI and Apple. Now, Apple is suing the company co-founded by... Read More

Halfway through their four year campaign, the U.S. military is already failing at combating "violent extremist organizations" in Africa,... Read More

Central African affiliates launch deadly assaults in Congo and Mozambique, as terror group latches onto local insurgencies. Read More

In 1974, John Patterson was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted... Read More

The long read: In 2019, the body of a man fell from a passenger plane into a garden in south London. Who was he? Read More

One Friday night, Kwon Tae-hoon received a call. Read More

A flourishing subgenre of YouTube channels features North Korean refugees telling how they fled the authoritarian government and how they've... Read More

President Xi Jinping is confronting the Biden administration with a new world view, that Beijing’s decades of not challenging the U.S. as... Read More

The power failure was described by Iran as “nuclear terrorism” as talks were underway in Vienna to restore the 2015 nuclear deal. Read More

Investors managing $11 trillion have called on the world’s biggest banks to phase out financing of fossil-fuel companies and throw their... Read More

Elaine Meyer and Barry Prizant had given up on having more than one child. Then, in their 60s, they got a letter from the hospital where... Read More

Federal law doesn't prohibit financial institutions from offering banking service to dispensaries and growers, but the added reporting... Read More

Hatcheries promised to stop killing male chicks by 2020. What’s taking so long? Read More

BitClout lets people speculate on prominent social-media figures, buying tokens that theoretically rise and fall in value with the person’s... Read More

Sixty-four years ago, as Elvis Presley’s career reached its supernova stage, the 21-year-old singer’s team hit on a strategy that enabled... Read More

“Empire of Pain” by Patrick Radden Keefe exposes the inner psyche of the scions of an opioid fortune and crisis. 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