NEW: A court-sanctioned inquiry in Arizona alleges a “disturbing pattern” of conduct that undermined efforts to investigate misconduct and root out racial profiling in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
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A Florida man was arrested after allegedly kidnapping a teenage girl and hiding her inside a clothes dryer at his Key Largo home, authorities said. https://t.co/65GmdPTil4
The family of a woman who was killed when a Tesla crashed into her home while allegedly in self-driving mode is suing the automaker and the driver for damages. https://t.co/Xr25KzzYU8
Four years after the Dobbs decision, pregnant people in states with total abortion bans are now nearly twice as likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or the postpartum period. https://t.co/vuWdpqBpCW
The family of Wilberforce University freshman Savanna Jones has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, alleging an alcohol-fueled hazing ritual contributed to her death and that she was left without medical help.
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A major California labor union representing over 120,000 healthcare workers (SEIU-UHW) proposed a one-time 5% tax on California billionaires, and they secured enough signatures for this to make it on the November ballot.
Organizers estimate that it'd raise $100 billion to offset federal healthcare cuts with additional funding for food assistance and education.
Google's co-founder Sergey Brin has spent $82 million on a committee to defeat the proposal, and the committee has raised nearly $120 million from less than 12 donors.
Every American should be paying attention.
This is a direct political confrontation between organized labor and organized oligarchs.
NEW: As states hollow out mental health care systems, they're using jails as de facto mental health providers.
Jail is where people with mental illness cycle in and out of, basically as a state's public policy.
We just reported on that in Colorado. https://t.co/xJ03kiNjSp
Heading to Aspen next week for #AspenIdeasHealth 2026.
I’ll be speaking at the Opening Session on Mon 6/22 and on the panel “Reimagining Medical Education” on Tue 6/23.
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We don't need to overcomplicate matters. Plantation owners in the colonies/US lived on the land they owned, and had deployable armed forces to defend not only against uprisings, but foreign encroachment and wars with natives...
The diff. b/w rebellions in the US and the Haitian revolution was demographics & geography. Black slaves were outnumbered across the colonies, with no fortifiable terrain to retreat to. Slaves & gens de couleur in St. Domingue had opposite circumstances
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According to a 2021 study from Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates against gun violence, homicides are deemed justified more often, in nearly every state, when the shooter is white and the victim is Black. https://t.co/a2gA0txo5Y
Despite decades of diversity initiatives, Black professionals continue to face significant barriers in the workplace, from hiring discrimination and slower promotion rates to racial microaggressions and unequal scrutiny. Now, new... https://t.co/U2BTSIW8le
His family believes he was targeted because he was gay. D.C. Police, in response to an inquiry from News4, said "There is no evidence to show this was a hate-bias incident." https://t.co/sQSiWeODx8
Critical #MissingPerson 14-year-old Tyler Little-Harris, who was last seen in the 700 block of Chesapeake Street, Southeast, on June 12, 2026.
Have info? Call (202) 727-9099 / text 50411
Soni was a stone cold assassin but how about the tip from Lauren Betts? While the refs were sorting things out with player positioning, Sydney Johnson was instructing Betts on where to tip it. Mystics got what they wanted and Betts and Soni executed it perfectly #wnba
Critical #MissingPerson 15-year-old Imani Jones, who was last seen in the 1500 block of First Street, Southwest, on Wednesday, June 10th, 2026.
The incident was reported to MPD on June 12th, 2026.
Have info? Call (202) 727-9099 / text 50411