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Courts & Law

Attorney General William Barr is being urged by both Democrats and Republicans to make special counsel Robert Mueller's final report public. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
NPR
National
Politics

Attorney General Barr faces bipartisan pressure to make Mueller report public

Democrats have been pushing Barr to make Mueller's report public. Friday, as the investigation was finally done, some top Republicans echoed their Democratic colleagues.

6 years ago

The White House is reflected in a puddle, Friday March 22, 2019, in Washington, as news breaks that the special counsel Robert Mueller has concluded his investigation into Russian election interference and possible coordination with associates of President Donald Trump. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
National
Politics

Now what? Mueller ends the Russia investigation

We may not get all the juicy details uncovered over the past 22 months — at least not right away — but this story is far from over. Here's what to expect next.

6 years ago

Rose family attorney, S. Lee Merritt, (left), and Michelle Kenney, (center), mother of Antwon Rose II, address members of the media following the closing arguments in the homicide trial of former East Pittsburgh Police officer Michael Rosfeld, Friday, March 22, 2019, at the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh. (Nate Smallwood/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP, Pool)
Pennsylvania
Policing
Race & Ethnicity

Jury gets case in trial of cop who killed Antwon Rose

Former East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld fired on 17-year-old Antwon Rose II last summer outside Pittsburgh in a killing that sparked weeks of unrest.

6 years ago

Attorney General William Barr departs his home on Friday in McLean, Va. He has notified Congress that he has received special counsel Robert Mueller's report on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
NPR
National
Politics

READ: Attorney General Barr’s letter on Mueller report

Barr sent a letter on Friday notifying Congress that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election had concluded. Read the text of the letter below.

6 years ago

The exterior of the
Philadelphia
Policing

Problem police are moved to jobs at Homeland Security center

Some problem police officers in Philadelphia have been assigned to monitor security cameras in a highly sensitive Homeland Security intelligence facility.

6 years ago

Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane (AP file photo)
Pennsylvania

Former Pa. Attorney General Kathleen Kane is disbarred

Kane was convicted in 2016 for leaking information about a grand jury investigation to a Philadelphia newspaper and lying about it.

6 years ago

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Down the Shore
New Jersey
Transportation

Vehicle ‘no wake’ movement expands at the Shore

A movement to minimize impacts from motor vehicles on properties in flooded areas continues to expand at the Jersey Shore.

6 years ago

A courtroom sketch from November 2018 shows Cesar Sayoc who pleaded guilty in New York on Thursday to sending bombs to media figures and to critics of President Trump. (Elizabeth Williams/AP)
NPR
National
Public Safety

Florida man pleads guilty to charges of mailing bombs to Trump critics

Cesar Altieri Sayoc, 56, was arrested in late October and was scheduled to go on trial in July.

6 years ago

In this file photo, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner speaks with members of the media during a news conference in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Krasner: 'Mass supervision' is the 'evil twin' of mass incarceration

Krasner says this latest effort to change the criminal justice system will end what he calls “mass supervision” — the “evil twin” of mass incarceration.

6 years ago

Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, New Jersey State Police Captain Gregory Demeter and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brett Dreyer announce the arrests of three men in the takedown of a major fentanyl and heroin mill, in Harrison, N.J., that distributed its narcotics in wax folds stamped with the same brand names that have been linked to 227 overdoses, including 84 deaths, in Newark, N.J. on Thursday, March 21, 2019. (Tim Larsen/Office of the Attorney General)
Addiction
New Jersey

N.J. authorities break up heroin operation possibly linked to 84 recent overdose deaths

N.J. authorities urged opioid users to ditch their drugs if they see certain packages after a major bust at a North Jersey facility producing heroin laced with fentanyl.

6 years ago

A line of migrants released by U.S. immigration authorities waits to check in at the Catholic Charities shelter in McAllen, Texas on Jan. 11. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)
NPR
Immigration
National

Border Patrol starts releasing asylum-seeking migrants to South Texas streets

U.S. Border Patrol is releasing asylum-seeking migrants who were recently apprehended without detaining them because officials say detention facilities are full to capacity.

6 years ago

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NPR
Higher Education
History
Race & Ethnicity

Harvard profits from photos of slaves, lawsuit claims

Tamara Lanier says "Papa Renty" is the patriarch of her family and that Harvard is using those photos without permission and profiting from photos taken by a racist professor.

6 years ago

A memorial service for Grace Packer was held at New Life Presbyterian Church in Glenside, Pa. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Criminal Justice

Dismembered Pa. teen’s family testifies about impact of death

Family members of a slain 14-year-old girl named Grace Packer said Thursday they remain haunted by her torture and excruciating death.

6 years ago

A woman who did not want to be identified holds a memorial display with a drawing of Antwon Rose II in front of the court house on the first day of the trial for Michael Rosfeld, a former police officer in East Pittsburgh, last month. Rosfeld was acquitted in the fatal shooting of Antwon Rose II as he fled during a traffic stop on June 19, 2018. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania

Witness says officer questioned teen’s actions in shooting

A witness in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer said he saw the officer panicking, saying, "I don't know why I shot him."

6 years ago

This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows the StingRay II, a cellular site simulator used for surveillance purposes manufactured by Harris Corporation, of Melbourne, Fla. Search warrant documents released Tuesday, March 19, 2019, revealed that the FBI used highly secretive and controversial cellphone sweeping technology similar to that of Sting Ray to zero-in on Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, when agents raided his New York City home, hotel room and office. (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office via AP, File)
Politics
Technology

FBI tracked Michael Cohen’s phones with controversial device

Michael Cohen, meet the Triggerfish.

6 years ago

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