Lawmaker calls for ban on special treatment for convicted drug traffickers after ProPublica report
A federal lawmaker is pushing for a provision that would prohibit the Federal Bureau of Prisons from offering taxpayer-funded VIP ...
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Child sexual abuse in this church has gone unchecked for so long that it spans generations
Report Highlights A national problem: Former congregations of the Apostolic Lutheran Church in the United States have been forced to ...
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Puerto Rico lawmakers call for investigation into alleged drug-for-votes scheme after ProPublica report
Puerto Rico's federal and local lawmakers, as well as civil rights organizations, have called for investigations after ProPublica reported how ...
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Trump pardoned nursing home owner who owed grieving family nearly $19 million
When Amanda Coulson was a child, she visited her mother at work at a hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. Doris ...
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“A slap in the face”: Trump’s Justice Department plans to settle predatory lending case without compensating victims
In December 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice prosecuted a Texas real estate developer it accused of defrauding tens of ...
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Trump’s Justice Department scrapped 23,000 criminal investigations in favor of immigration
Report Highlights A striking start: The number of refusals marks a striking change not only from the Biden administration but ...
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A nursing home owner won a pardon from Trump. The families of his patients got nothing.
Report Highlights Another pardon from Trump: Nursing home operator Joseph Schwartz was convicted of a $39 million fraud, but President ...
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Minnesota launches legal battle with Trump administration to hold ICE shooters accountable
They asked nicely at first. After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of ...
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Report confirms Colombia ignored decades of sexual abuse by doctors
Decades after patients warned Columbia University that one of its doctors had sexually abused them, some university administrators finally faced ...
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New York attorney general investigates Columbia for allowing predatory doctor to see patients despite warnings
The New York State Attorney General's Office has begun investigating how Columbia University let a predatory doctor continue to see ...
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