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Portions of a 161-page letter written to Trump by a Wisconsin man who is believed to be armed talk about a system of greed, and called for action.
Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam was remembered as a 'humble pioneer' after her body was found floating in the Hudson River.
Joe Arpaio's Infamous Ariz. Tent City Closing
By the time former Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio lost his re-election bid in 2016, he was widely thought of as one of the worst sheriffs in the country, if not the worst. He was known for harsh anti-immigrant policies, accusations of racial profiling, misuse of funds and any number of other complaints—and the perfect symbol of everything wrong with his way of approaching law enforcement was Tent City.
Bearing signs with the horrible pun “In-Tents unit” (“intense,” get it?), Tent City was Arpaio’s silly “get tough on crime” idea. And it quickly gave Maricopa County, and Arizona, a reputation as a place where revenge and hate were the driving principles behind law enforcement, an approach as inefficient and ineffective as it is immoral.
Since 1993, as many as 1,700 inmates at a time were housed in a 7-acre plot of tents. Inmates were forced to wear stereotypical black-and-white striped prison uniforms and, seriously, pink underwear. This is the type of man Arpaio is. He wants prisoners not only to pay their debt to society but to be humiliated—and he thinks making men wear pink underwear...
The bruised and bloodied passenger who was forcibly removed this week from a United Airlines flight lost two teeth and suffered a broken nose and 'significant concussion' in the ordeal.
A Florida police officer was charged with attempted manslaughter on Wednesday for shooting the unarmed black caretaker of an autistic man last July.
After 26 years on the run, Gustavo Falcon, 55, the last of the infamous "Cocaine Cowboys" was arrested in Kissimmee, Florida, on Wednesday.
After 26 years on the run, Gustavo Falcon, 55, the last of the infamous "Cocaine Cowboys" was arrested in Kissimmee, Florida, on Wednesday.
It was not immediately clear if a U.S. plane carried out the strike, south of Tabqah in northern Syria on Tuesday, which killed 18 members of the American-backed SDF.
California's attorney general says North Carolina's HB2 "bathroom bill" repeal still leaves LGBTQ people in the state vulnerable to discrimination.
California's attorney general says North Carolina's HB2 "bathroom bill" repeal still leaves LGBTQ people in the state vulnerable to discrimination.
