The New York Police Department says it will soon expunge DNA profiles of some people who’ve never been convicted of a crime from the city’s local DNA database as part of a larger reform of its collection policies. A law firm that has been critical of the policies, however, says the reform does not go…… MORE
Growing up, I watched my father, a highly respected cardiologist, read medical journals every evening, answer emergency phone calls in the middle of many nights, and rush to the hospital after-hours several times a week. I didn’t know it then, but these years were the peak of an epidemic of heart disease in the United…… MORE
It isn’t a leap to say that Jerry Mitchell’s new book “Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era” is a piece of real-life horror. After all, as the subtitle suggests, it grapples not merely with the dead but with how, for decades, the normalized bigotry of the…… MORE
The US dollar index reached a three-year high as investors worried about the global coronavirus outbreak are moving their money into the safe-haven greenback. Investments considered safe in times of market turmoil have been rallying since the outbreak became Wall Street’s number one worry in January. Cases continue to rise globally. The full financial and…… MORE
Evelyn Boswell is a 15-month-old girl missing in Tennessee. Andrew Caballeiro was a week old when he was last seen in Florida. Osiel Rico, 3, has been missing from New Mexico for nearly two months. To try and find them, authorities are using a system created nearly 25 years ago: AMBER Alerts. The alerts, short…… MORE
Hiroko Rose joined the Boy Scouts of America in February 2019 and said she’s loved it so far. The 12-year-old is part of her troop in Springfield, Virginia, right outside Washington, and told CNN it gives her a sense of adventure and is a fun way to be around her friends. So when she heard…… MORE
For Natalie Reilly, Valentine’s Day 2016 was grim. The divorcee was at home nursing her mother through a 19th round of chemotherapy. “She was not eating, and she was not coming out of her room,” Reilly remembered of her once-vibrant mom. “It was really hard for me — she was the strongest woman I knew.”…… MORE
Today is George Washington’s birthday. But does it seem like it? Americans haven’t celebrated the first US president’s birthday on his actual birthday for nearly 50 years. Instead, the US celebrates his birthday on Presidents’ Day, the third Monday in February. Here’s why. Washington’s two birthdays Don’t you wish you could celebrate your birthday twice…… MORE
If you see a 70-year-old woman digging through a trash can for discarded banana peels in Florida, you may have spotted one of the world’s most unique collectors. Becky Martz, of Orlando, has spent the past 29 years fastidiously collecting and cataloging more than 21,000 banana labels from around the world. Martz’s hobby has led…… MORE
For decades, the remains of thousands of Native Americans have been resting at a university in Tennessee. But this spring, they will finally go home. Archaeologists unearthed more than 2,000 Arikara and Mandan ancestral remains in South Dakota during the mid-20th century as part of the Missouri River Basin Survey, according to a November Federal…… MORE
