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NBC News • 13th December 2024

A simple device could help prevent accidental gun deaths, but most firearms don’t have it

A 13-year-old in Chicago takes his father’s pistol out of a lockbox and removes the magazine from the weapon. He shows the gun to a neighbor the same age, and pretends to fire it several times.

NBC News • 20th September 2024

A mom, a midwife and an allegation of drugging without consent

Jennifer Nosek’s pregnancy was everything she had hoped for. After two miscarriages, she felt grateful and relaxed as her due date approached. In Sayulita, Mexico, her part-time home, she and her friends gathered for a baby shower, wearing flower crowns to celebrate.

NBC News • 15th May 2025

Up against Musk's Colossus supercomputer, a Memphis neighborhood fights for clean air

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Homes without indoor plumbing. Few streetlights. Virtually no public transportation. Half a century ago, residents of Boxtown, a neighborhood in South Memphis settled by formerly enslaved families, felt forgotten by the modern age. But no longer.

New York Focus • 14th January 2026

New York Keeps Children in Solitary Without Toilets, Suit Alleges

Juvenile detention centers in New York are keeping children and young adults in solitary confinement for days or weeks at a time, a federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges.

THE CITY - NYC News • 8th February 2021

NYC Nursing Home Gave Dozens of Veterans Experimental COVID-19 Treatments. Some Families Had No Idea

Yvonne Parson wasn’t in the room when her father died. Like millions of people with relatives inside one of the country’s many nursing homes this past year, she couldn’t be. James Hutcherson, a 93-year-old resident of New York State Veterans’ Home at St. Albans, had been living in the state-run Queens facility for four years, after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and dementia.

Vanity Fair • 15th October 2024

On Donald Trump's Coattails, America’s Neo-Nazi Youth Is Flowering in Active Clubs and the Prison System

Brandon Russell’s letters were detailed: first a how-to diagram for building a functional explosive device. Then instructions for dropping propaganda leaflets by air. In another, an ominous warning: “As soon as I get out, I will go right back to fight for my White Race and my America!”He was already incarcerated when he wrote those letters from the Pine...

The New York Times • 25th September 2021

Long Hours, Low Pay, Loneliness and a Booming Industry

The ranks of home health aides are expected to grow more than any other job in the next decade. What kind of work are they being asked to do? For 15 years, Yvette Dessin spent long work days with her elderly patients, accompanying them on walks, cooking them meals and bathing those who needed that most intimate kind of care.

The Intercept • 30th January 2019

Prisons Across the U.S. Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints

Roughly six months ago at New York’s Sing Sing prison, John Dukes says he was brought out with cellmates to meet a corrections counselor. He recalls her giving him a paper with some phrases and offering him a strange choice: He could go up to the phone and utter the phrases that an automated voice would ask him to read, or he could choose not to and lose his phone access altogether.

NBC News • 14th June 2024

How a major public hospital is protecting doctors by silencing the patients who accuse them

She hadn’t quite turned 19 and had just started college when Hana Hooper found out she was dying. An echocardiogram revealed the telltale signs in grayscale images of an enlarged heart chamber, its walls stretched thin.

The Appeal • 11th December 2025

A Baby’s Death, a Flawed Autopsy, and a Mother Locked Up for Life

Tina Rodriguez was sent to prison in Texas for allegedly starving her son to death. But recent discoveries about the medical examiner who conducted the baby’s autopsy raise questions about her case.

The New Yorker • 28th April 2021

Bridging the Divide Between the Police and the Policed

Alicka Ampry-Samuel works out of a two-story office building overlooking an expanse of vacant land, in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. She grew up a few blocks away, in one of the area’s nearly two dozen public-housing complexes.

The New York Times • 30th March 2022

Opinion | This Rap Song Helped Sentence a 17-Year-Old to Prison for Life

Tommy Munsdwell Canady was in middle school when he wrote his first rap lyrics. He started out freestyling for friends and family, and after two of his cousins were fatally shot, he found solace in making music.

NBC News • 18th September 2025

Teachers' punishment for social media posts on Charlie Kirk's death prompts free speech debate

In the week since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, MAGA influencers and GOP lawmakers have pushed for swift consequences against anyone who makes light of his killing — and professors, teachers and school staff members have come under particular scrutiny.

Reveal • 17th November 2020

Federal prosecutors hold protesters for months pretrial

Just after midnight on May 31 in downtown Las Vegas, Ricardo Densmore broke off from a larger group of demonstrators and used his phone to record two other protesters lighting a squad car on fire.

Business Insider • 18th May 2023

Her son said his stepdad was sexually abusive. A judge gave the stepdad custody anyway. Then she found the photographs.

In the summer of 2020, when he was 12, the boy told his therapist something he'd never told anyone else. For years, Robert claimed, his stepdad had sexually abused him.

NBC News • 25th May 2025

A Louisiana plantation-turned-resort burns, prompting a reckoning

When Tammika Thompson first heard about the fire at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation on May 15, she felt a surge of energy in her body as she recognized why the name was so familiar. Her father’s family traces its roots to White Castle, where the plantation is based, and she believes some of her ancestors were enslaved there.

NBC News • 14th October 2025

A virtual education company was a lifeline to a rural district. Now they're at war.

GALLUP, N.M. — In 2020, as the Covid pandemic raged, the school district here thought it had found the perfect solution to help provide online schooling to its mostly Native American students when it hired a for-profit education company called Stride Inc.

NBC News • 2nd October 2025

In Iowa, a sleepy city is moved to protest for a beloved superintendent detained by ICE

DES MOINES, Iowa — On Tuesday, hundreds of students walked out of middle and high schools across the city to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention of Ian Andre Roberts, the now-former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district.