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For more than a decade, Silicon Valley venture capitalists have poured enormous sums of money into newfangled technology companies seeking to disrupt, and even supplant, the…

Despite an extraordinary effort by the district attorney’s office in Nashville, Tennessee, to reverse a murder conviction that its own prosecutors won more than two decades…

Reporting Highlights Caught in a Wholesale Sweep: Trump’s Memphis Safe Task Force promised to focus on violent criminals, but after being stopped for no apparent reason,…

The Department of Homeland Security says it intends to add state driver’s license information to a swiftly expanding federal system envisioned as a one-stop shop for…

Reporting Highlights No Age Preference: Until now, Social Security disability benefits got easier to qualify for as a person reached 50 and above. The Trump plan…

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

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

This year, when states began using an expanded Department of Homeland Security system to check their voter rolls for noncitizens, it was supposed to validate the…

The Trump administration is making it more difficult for veterans with a rare but deadly cancer to get their health care needs covered by the government.…

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground across Oklahoma. It has bubbled up near homes and a school — and it has…