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Despite an extraordinary effort by the Nashville, Tennessee, district attorney’s office to overturn a murder conviction won by the state’s…

Reporting Highlights Caught in a Wholesale Sweep: Trump’s Memphis Safe Task Force promised to focus on violent criminals, but after…

The Department of Homeland Security said it plans to add state driver’s license information to the rapidly expanding federal system…

Reporting Highlights No Age Preference: Until now, Social Security disability benefits got easier to qualify for as a person reached…

In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, gave the state and the nation…

When states began using an expanded Department of Homeland Security system to check noncitizen voter rolls this year, it was…

Reporting Highlights Unreliable Pollution Reports: For decades, some big polluters were allowed to estimate their emissions using methods the government…

Reporting Highlights Under Pressure: Oil companies have polluted groundwater and the environment by injecting oil field waste deep into the…

Toxic wastewater from oil fields continues to spill out of the ground across Oklahoma. They occurred near homes and schools,…

The Trump administration is making it more difficult for veterans with rare but deadly cancers to get their medical needs…