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Legal experts said the cases can’t be compared since Biden is a first-time offender and Black has prior offenses that factored into his sentence.

Some 40 category winners and 105 finalists are named the 2023 edition of the American Association of Publishers' annual PROSE Awards.

Two mentally impaired men died in Suffolk police custody. Investigations protected the officers. Police and prosecutors conducted flawed homicide probes in the deaths of Daniel McDonnell and Dainell Simmons, Newsday found.

Of at least 19 hot car deaths in the U.S. this year, four parents have been charged. Theyre all people of color.

On Monday, Pamela Moses is set to make her first court appearance since having her six-year prison sentence for trying to register to vote overturned

In several prominent cases, Black people got harsher sentences for unintentional voting errors than whites who committed fraud

Police Reform Through a Power Lens abstract . Scholars and reformers have in recent years begun to imagine new and different configurations for how the state can design policing institutions. These conversations have increased in volume and urgency in response to the 2020 national uprising against police violence, when radical demands born within social movements have gained steam—demands to defund the police, to institute “people’s budgets,” and to give communities control over the sta...

Joe Bidens Attorney General Pick Must Insulate DOJ As Hunter, Trump Probes Play Out Newsweek 12/19/2020 Jacob Jarvis © Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images for World Food Program USA Hunter Biden (L) and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden attend the World Food Program USAs Annual McGovern-Dole Leadership Award Ceremony at Organization of American States on April 12, 2016 in Washington, D.C. Hunter faces a probe into his tax affairs. President-elect Joe Bidens pick for Attorney General fa...