To commemorate the anniversary of his death, we rounded up some of the best reporting and commentaries on that night in Florida, George Zimmerman’s trial and what came next. George Zimmerman fatally ...

Tasha Grant said the words until she could speak them no more. “I can’t breathe,” she repeated 23 times to MetroHealth Medical Center staff, three hospital police officers and the sheriff’s deputy ...

From statehouse bans to audit workarounds, governments are scrambling to police the license-plate readers they rushed to ...

Hundreds of federal judges have ruled against the administration’s “mandatory detention” policy, but the Supreme Court may ...

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Shortly after being sworn in, President Donald Trump signed an order to expand the death penalty, confirming a widespread expectation that the Department of Justice may seek capital punishment more ...

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Robert Roberson faces execution in Texas on Oct. 16 for the 2002 murder of his young daughter Nikki Curtis. For years, a growing pool of supporters — from the lead detective in his case to Dr. Phil — ...

Police forces in the U.S. were originally founded to secure private property—including human beings.

Cleveland police officers stop thousands of people every year, mostly to hand out traffic tickets. In 2023, the department reported making nearly 17,000 stops — about 45 a day. More than 700 of those ...