by Tara Culp-Ressler Posted on October 16, 2014
It would be a largely symbolic gesture to make Americans feel safer. But it would backfire.
by Kira Lerner Posted on October 16, 2014
A Brooklyn judge dismissed the now 45-year-old David McCallum’s conviction and also threw out the conviction of Willie Stuckey, finding they were both pressured into confessing as teenagers.
by Tara Culp-Ressler Posted on October 16, 2014 Updated: October 16, 2014
"Now I can go to the doctor and not worry. It's huge. That's a success story."
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by Zack Ford Posted on October 16, 2014 Updated: October 16, 2014
Students say they had already paid for and cast the play when school officials decided to cancel it.
by Ian Millhiser Posted on October 15, 2014
A California atheist was given a choice -- participate in a religious program or go to prison.
by Jessica Goldstein Posted on October 15, 2014 Updated: October 16, 2014
"These characters are all battling how to be authentic, not how to be black or authentically black, because that’s fiction. It’s an illusion. "
by Alice Ollstein Posted on October 15, 2014 Updated: October 16, 2014
The law disenfranchised thousands of eligible voters during the May primary.
by Amelia Rosch Posted on October 15, 2014 Updated: October 15, 2014
The price of pumpkins in California could rise by 15 percent because of the drought.
by Travis Waldron Posted on October 15, 2014 Updated: October 15, 2014
NPR, its ombudsman says, is "the first large national news organization to pull back on the use of a name that is a slur to many Native Americans."
by Igor Volsky Posted on October 15, 2014 Updated: October 15, 2014
The new HBO Go could spell the end of channel surfing as we know it.
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