$30,000 at Detroit’s Greektown Casino, restaurant tabs approaching $7,000, top shelf cigars, Louis Roederer Cristal champagne, firearms, a $1 million lake house, and, of course, cocaine. This is just a partial accounting of the lavish spending that drew federal prosecutors… Read More ›
Murray Hooper just needs more time. He says this over and over again, with an urgency bordering on despair. He is six days away from execution and not ready to give up. But he doesn’t want to delude himself either…. Read More ›
Many of the tens of thousands of delegates attending the United Nations climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, go to these gatherings year after year on a kind of autopilot. They update their PowerPoint presentations, pack their organizational banners, and brush… Read More ›
Eddie Raymond needed to run to the store to grab some toilet paper on a January day this year. Under an Illinois law that had gone into effect at the start of the month, he was entitled to leave home… Read More ›
An image of Elon Musk is seen surrounded by Twitter logos, on Nov. 8, 2022. Photo: STR/NurPhoto via AP Everything in this article was accurate at the time of publication. However, given the speed of changes at Twitter, anything could… Read More ›
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney walk to the Oval Office, on Nov. 17, 2004, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Ron Edmonds/AP On Wednesday, as the eyes of the U.S. public were focused on Tuesday’s midterm election results, a U.S…. Read More ›
Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 24, 2022. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images In the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean,” the pirates swear by a supposedly ironclad set of rules… Read More ›
In the fall of 2010, the District of Columbia was preparing to do something bold: allow overseas voters to cast their ballots online. A few weeks ahead of the November general election, it conducted a mock internet election and invited… Read More ›
At the moment that the ferret bit him, the researcher was smack in the middle of Manhattan, in a lab one block from Central Park’s East Meadow. It was the Friday afternoon before Labor Day in 2011, and people were… Read More ›
The graduate student was alone in the lab on a Saturday, handling a mouse infected with a debilitating virus, when the needle slipped. She wore two gowns, two pairs of shoe covers, a hair net, a face mask, and two… Read More ›