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Mary Znidarsic-Nicosia and her husband Nicholas Nicosia, pictured at their press conference in Rochester, NY, on Tuesday. The two deny allegations of racism and now blame
NPR
National
Race & Ethnicity
Technology

A Rochester couple denied allegations of racism. Then came a confession

Mary Znidarsic-Nicosia and Nicholas Nicosia defended themselves against "false claims of racism." Then, she confessed she runs a "blatantly racist" Twitter account.

4 years ago

This image from police-worn body cam video and contained in the statement of facts supporting the arrest warrant for Howard Richardson, shows Richardson swinging a metal flagpole on Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Department of Justice via AP)
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania

Pa. man who attacked police on Jan. 6 gets 46-month sentence

Richardson’s sentence is one of the longest yet among those who have been prosecuted for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6.

4 years ago

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Gun Violence
New Jersey
6abc

Man dead, 2 injured in Toms River shopping center shooting

Police found three individuals suffering from gunshot wounds near Anchorage Square Plaza.

4 years ago

The affidavit by the FBI in support of obtaining a search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is photographed Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched Trump's estate to look for classified documents. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
Crime
Government
Government Accountability

Justice Dept. releases redacted Mar-a-Lago search affidavit

The document, even in its redacted form, contains new details about an ongoing criminal investigation that has brought fresh legal peril for Trump.

4 years ago

File photo: An aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is pictured, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Government Accountability
Law
National
Politics

Judge orders unsealing of redacted affidavit in Trump search

The judge said the department must file its redacted version by noon Friday.

4 years ago

File photo: President Joe Biden walks on the beach with daughter Ashley Biden, in Rehoboth Beach, Del., June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Criminal Justice
National
Politics

2 plead guilty in scheme to sell Biden’s daughter’s diary

Project Veritas has not been charged with any crime. The group says its activities were newsgathering and were ethical and legal.

4 years ago

Pennsylvania State troopers pull over drivers
Pennsylvania
Policing
Spotlight PA

Your license plate frame is enough for police in Pa. to pull you over, court rules

The judges found the state’s vehicle code prohibits any part of the plate from being covered, including the visitpa.com website of the state’s tourism office.

4 years ago

The Justice Department has released a nine-page memorandum from 2019 to then-Attorney General William Barr that lays out the case for not prosecuting former President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
NPR
Government
Government Accountability
Law

DOJ releases a Mueller-era memo to Barr on the decision to not prosecute Trump

The department has released a 2019 memo laying out the case for not prosecuting former President Trump for obstruction of justice in connection with the Russia investigation.

4 years ago

Abortion rights activists chant slogans as the Indiana Senate debates during a special session in Indianapolis before voting to ban abortions. (SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
NPR
Law
National
Public Health

2 months after the Dobbs ruling, new abortion bans are taking hold

A cascade of new abortion restrictions known as "trigger bans" are taking effect in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to the medical procedure.

4 years ago

File photo: ''RIP Rayshard'' is spray painted on a street sign as as flames engulf a Wendy's restaurant during protests in Atlanta on Saturday, June 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Black Lives Matter
National
Policing

Officers won’t face any charges in Rayshard Brooks shooting

A specially appointed prosecutor said he believes Officer Garrett Rolfe, who shot and killed Brooks, acted appropriately.

4 years ago

A ground mural depicting a portrait of Breonna Taylor is seen at Chambers Park, Monday, July 6, 2020, in Annapolis, Md. The mural honors Taylor, a 26-year old Black woman who was fatally shot by police in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment. The artwork was a team effort by the Banneker-Douglass Museum, the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, and Future History Now, a youth organization that focuses on mural projects. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Black Lives Matter
Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Former Louisville cop pleads guilty in Breonna Taylor case

A former Louisville police detective who helped write the warrant that led to the deadly police raid at Breonna Taylor's apartment has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy.

4 years ago

A truck drives near a population sign in Mulberry, Arkansas
National
Policing

3 Arkansas police officers suspended after video captures beating

The video shows one officer punching the suspect with a clenched fist, while another can be seen hitting the man with his knee.

4 years ago

Glass containers display varieties of marijuana for sale on shelves
Addiction
Medicine
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Commonwealth Court orders Pa.’s health department to release information on medical marijuana program

For more than a year, the Department of Health has fought to block Spotlight PA’s request for information about the state’s medical marijuana program.

4 years ago

Gov. Whitmer addresses the state during a speech in Lansing
Crime
National

Delaware man found guilty of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

A jury on Tuesday convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, in a plot prosecutors described as a rallying cry for a U.S. civil war.

4 years ago

The entrance to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach, Fla. estate is shown on Aug. 8, 2022, the day of the FBI's search there. (Terry Renna/AP)
NPR
Crime
Government Accountability

Trump asks for a ‘special master’ to review Mar-a-Lago evidence

The legal action is the first from Trump's attorneys since FBI agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago.

4 years ago

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