Seven House committee chairs released sweeping legislation Wednesday morning with the hope of addressing what they claim are improprieties committed by President Donald Trump and his administration.
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A California ballot measure that would drastically reform how commercial properties are taxed has the support of the majority of state residents who plan to vote in November, according to a survey released Wednesday.
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Identifying police misconduct in a whopping 72% percent of cases where a defendant sentenced to death was later exonerated, legal researchers published a sobering report Tuesday on the coercive techniques that led to the false convictions of more than 2,600 Americans since 1989.
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Texas will likely be fined for violating orders meant to reform its foster care system, a federal judge said Friday, adding she believes a grocery chain does a better job tracking produce than Texas does of children in its care.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a disciplinary matrix Monday to guide how the nation’s largest police department handles disciplining officers for a range of misconduct from excessive force and hate speech to misuse of body camera.
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Braving the pandemic, Chileans begin campaigning Wednesday for a referendum on amending their dictatorship-era constitution — for many a symbol of entrenched social and economic inequality.
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The North Dakota Supreme Court blocked an initiative seeking to reshape the state’s election process from making it to the November ballot.
Read moreFollowing a similar suit by police unions, labor reps for state troopers and correctional officers sued Wednesday to overturn New York City’s ban on chokeholds. They say the ban criminalizes the maneuver even if no injury occurs, and that it encroaches on the authority of the state police superintendent.
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New Jersey’s high court ruled Wednesday that Newark did not have the authority to delegate investigative powers, including subpoena power, to a newly created civilian police review board.
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Representing Republican and Democratic administrations dating back to the Reagan years, a half-dozen former Environmental Protection Agency heads issued a call Wednesday for an agency overhaul in 2021.
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Lebanon’s government resigned Monday amid widespread public fury at the country’s ruling elite over last week’s devastating explosion in Beirut. The move risks opening the way to dragged-out negotiations over a new Cabinet amid urgent calls for reform.
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The sheriff of New Orleans can be put back in control of the city’s long-troubled jail despite still-serious problems that triggered U.S. Justice Department oversight and a 2012 lawsuit, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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Any attempts to amend the Minneapolis City Charter to dismantle its police department will have to wait for 2021.
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BERLIN (AFP) — Germany is planning to ban floodlights from dusk for much of the year as part of its
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Supreme Court justices do not face term limits, but experts participating in an online panel Tuesday said the reasons for ending the practice are mounting.
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The House of Representatives passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill on Friday that pushes police to ban chokeholds and pulls funding from the Trump administration’s court challenge of the federal health care law.
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In an unanimous ruling Thursday, the California Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a 2013 pension reform law forbidding public employees from cashing in on unused sick and vacation time to increase their pension benefits, finding the Legislature should be allowed to “close loopholes and foreclose opportunities for abuse.”
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Days after a federal judge temporarily blocked the public release of New York City police disciplinary records, a news website has published a database containing complaint information for thousands of officers.
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed into law Thursday police reforms responding to the death of George Floyd after a lengthy struggle to get a bill through the state’s divided government.
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California judges would have more freedom in determining how to sentence nonviolent drug offenders under a new bill aiming to do away with mandatory minimum prison terms.
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