The Real Reason for Self-Checkout Bans
It isn't about stopping crime—it's about protecting a favored constituency's jobs.
It isn't about stopping crime—it's about protecting a favored constituency's jobs.
The vice president's exaggeration reflects a pattern of dishonesty in the administration's pitch to voters who oppose the war on weed.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott takes a tactic from the progressive prosecutors he says he opposes.
Cyber intrusions, arson, bombings, and other mayhem feature in the conflict between West and East.
Contrary to the president's rhetoric, moving marijuana to Schedule III will leave federal pot prohibition essentially unchanged.
Prosecutor Ralph Petty was also employed as a law clerk—by the same judges he argued before.
The victims received no restitution payment.
Dexter Taylor is now a "violent felon," even though his hobby was victimless.
The intelligence community is admitting that info from data brokers is sensitive but isn’t accepting hard limits on how to use it.
Contrary to what prosecutors say, the former president is not charged with "conspiracy" or "election fraud."
The dominant media narrative has obscured much of the nuance here.
Reginald Burks says he told a police officer, "Get your ass out of the way so I can take my kids to school." First Amendment lawyers say he can't be forced to apologize.
Plus: Isaac Asimov's predictions, protests in Tbilisi, California's AI regulations, and more...
Likening drug users to people who are "mentally ill and dangerous," the ruling says barring them from owning firearms is not unconstitutional on its face.
Yes, you can trick the bot into giving you information it's supposed to keep to itself. No, that isn't something to worry about.
Mollie and Michael Slaybaugh are reportedly out over $70,000. The government says it is immune.
Under the prosecution's theory, Trump would be guilty of falsifying business records even if Daniels made the whole thing up.
The three-judge panel concluded unanimously that while the state law at issue is constitutional, the wildlife agents' application of it was not.
Plus: Hunter's guns, AI replacing dating, East German cars, and more...
But Justice Neil Gorsuch's concurring opinion suggests the Court may curb asset forfeiture in the future.
Nominated stories include journalism on messy nutrition research, pickleball, government theft, homelessness, and more.
The cars of two Alabama women were seized for more than a year before courts found they were innocent owners. The Supreme Court says they had no constitutional right to a preliminary hearing.
The Department of Justice indicted the creators of Samourai Wallet, an application that helps people spend their bitcoins anonymously.
Private unions have every right to exist, but that doesn't mean they're actually beneficial on net.
The court declined to address whether the search violated the Fourth Amendment and merely held that the evidence could not be excluded in a civil case.
New York prosecutors are relying on testimony from several people who do not seem trustworthy.
Now his victim's family has been awarded a $3.8 million settlement.
A new report argues that the notorious program squanders taxpayer money while keeping people imprisoned without justification or recourse.
In data from over 200 cities, homicides are down a little over 19 percent when compared to a similar time frame in 2023.
It's the war on drugs all over again, folks...
Filming cops is a First Amendment right, and there are already plenty of laws against harassing them.
Don't fall for scaremongering about "military-age male" migrants crossing the border. They are actually less dangerous than native-born citizens of the same age and gender.
The pledge, while mostly legally illiterate, offers a reminder of the former president's outlook on government accountability.
To convert a hush money payment into 34 felonies, prosecutors are invoking an obscure state election law that experts say has never been used before.
In 2022, police received a tip that officers were getting paid to make DWI cases disappear—the same allegation that prompted FBI raids in January.
Vincent Yakaitis is unfortunately not the first such defendant. He will also not be the last.
A New Jersey government watchdog said Street Cop Training instructors glorified violence, made discriminatory remarks, and offered unprofessional and unconstitutional advice to officers.
Victor Manuel Martinez Wario was jailed for a total of five days, spending three of those in special housing for sex offenders.
Moving marijuana to Schedule III, as the DEA plans to do, leaves federal pot prohibition essentially untouched.
One man’s overgrown yard became a six-year struggle against overzealous code enforcement.
A FOIA request reveals what the FBI and Homeland Security had to say about anarchist activities on May Day 2015.
Julian Assange and Priscilla Villarreal were both arrested for publishing information that government officials wanted to conceal.
The two are not the same, and may sometimes be in conflict with each other.
Alabama law doesn't let police demand individuals' government identification. But they keep arresting people anyway.
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