Law enforcement could use online data, police statements and medical records as evidence against people involved in abortions. It’s already happening.
Author: Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY
Guns, bomb shelters and anti-radiation meds: More people in Finland are preparing for war with Russia
As fears over Russia attacking Finland rise, many Finns have joined training associations to sharpen their military skills or learn first aid.
‘This has broken my life’: Russian artists demand free speech, flee their homeland to protest Ukraine war
A growing number of Russian artists have fled to neighboring Finland in recent weeks to avoid imprisonment for protesting the war through their art.
Famed federal women’s prison under investigation as 5th worker charged with sexual abuse of inmates
The prison in California, formerly home to well-known actors and one of the nation’s few all-female federal prisons, has come under scrutiny.
This mentally ill man was pepper-sprayed, choked and hooded before dying in state prison
Neglect and mistreatment of the mentally ill are endemic to the U.S. penal system, resulting in violence against inmates, as well as death.
US officials put Americans on alert for Russian cyberattacks as Ukraine war grows
U.S. officials said the most likely short-term cyber impact would be spillover of any cyberattack by Russia against Ukraine.
Rape survivors, child victims, consensual sex partners: San Francisco police have used DNA from all of them for 7 years
The San Francisco Police Department’s use of sexual assault DNA profiles to ID survivors as suspects was “absolutely wrong,” experts told USA TODAY.
No-knock warrants: A growing legacy of controversy, revised laws, tragic deaths
Since March 2020, no-knock warrants have been banned or their use limited across the U.S., including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and Minneapolis.
Biased tweets? Politically-gridlocked civil rights commission squabbles over what to share with public.
A Republican appointee on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights proposed that public information only be shared if it receives a majority vote.
They were trusted to train law enforcement officers, but they were members of an anti-government militia group
65 people on an Oath Keepers sign-up list described themselves as trainers, showing how extremist ideologies have proliferated in police departments.