When the state of Oklahoma stopped the execution of Richard Glossip on the day he was scheduled to die this week, it wasn’t because he may very well be be an innocent man, but because they’d received the wrong lethal injection drug. Today, the state’s highest criminal court decided to postpone two other pending executions because of the mixup.
PHILADELPHIA—A sign flashed over the NJ Turnpike as I made my way to Philadelphia early Friday morning: “POPE IN PHILLY THIS WEEKEND — PLAN AHEAD.” Indeed—Pope in Philly that weekend, and we ought to plan ahead.
Facing a state budget reduction, Alabama’s Law Enforcement Agency opted to cut driver-licensing services at 31 satellite offices, serving 28 counties. Twelve to fifteen of the affected counties are in Alabama’s “black belt,” and every Alabama county where black people make up 75% or more of registered voters. That’s troubling because, since last year, Alabama has required government ID to vote.
What exactly was Disclosure good at, anyway?
Yesterday on Cleveland’s East Side, a six-month-old girl riding in a car with her mother was killed after being shot in the chest during an apparent drive-by shooting. Following a failed SWAT raid on a nearby building, Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams broke down in tears while speaking to reporters about the girl’s death.
Thursday morning, a lone gunman opened fire at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College. By the end of his rampage, at least ten people—himself included—were dead. Here’s everything we know so far about the shooting, the alleged shooter, and his victims.
To help reduce recidivism rates, the Justice Department announced $53 million in grants for programs that aid offenders from re-entering prison (4 in 10 return within three years of release). “[W]e have to make a decision as to how we are going to reintegrate those individuals back into our society,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch said.
It’s been close to a century since the discovery of King Tutankhamen’s tomb at Egypt’s Valley of the Kings in Luxor, and no find since has matched it in public fascination and “golden splendor.” But that may be about to change, because digital scans of Tut’s tomb have revealed secret doorways that researchers think could contain the biggest discovery in Egypt since the Tomb itself: the burial site of his maybe-mother, Queen Nefertiti.
After several days of unflattering discussion about the Cool Pope’s date with arguably the least cool woman in America, the Vatican has finally stepped forward to try to salvage his reputation: yes, he did meet with her, but it was more of a pity thing and not, say, a papal endorsement of her backwards views.
Panderin’-ass Ben Carson seems to have found the niche any not-remotely-serious-and-therefore-totally-plausible Republican candidate needs in these ridiculous times, and his, apparently, is Bold Antagonizer Of Muslims. Look at him go!
A local FOX affiliate is reporting that Levy County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a domestic disturbance just after 6 p.m. tonight in Inglis, Florida, and found the bodies of two victims and that of the shooter himself, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A third victim was transported to an area hospital with serious injuries. Neither the victims nor the shooter have been identified by authorities.
Hold onto your butts, T-Mobile customers: 15 million of you just had your records gobbled up in a hack of credit giant Experian.
A man pushed to the ground by a police officer because he was locked out of his apartment. A cop who punched someone in the face for riding his bike on the sidewalk, and another who pulled his gun on a man for filming him. These are a few of the horror stories contained within a new report on NYPD use of force.
Imagine this: a burst of tweets show a bus explosion on the interstate, sending up a tremendous mushroom cloud, visible from miles away. How many people are hurt? Or dead? What caused the explosion? No one knows, because all the reporters decided to give the victims and bystanders space, and respected everyone’s need to process the trauma before answering questions about it.
Police say a California artist was completing a public art project intended to fight violence in his community when he was murdered mid-painting Tuesday.
