“When new scientific evidence casts doubt on convictions, the justice system has no easy path to freedom —even when it’s the prosecutors doing the asking.”
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Families in States with Bans on Trans Care are Finding Hope Across State Lines
“‘I would rather have an alive kid on testosterone than a dead kid that’s not,’ says one North Carolina mom.'”
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The Empathy Punishment
“A woman hurled a burrito bowl at a Chipotle employee. Then a judge made her walk in the victim’s shoes.”
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Guilty: Inside the High-Risk, Historic Prosecution of a School Shooter’s Parents
“A Post reporter embedded with Michigan prosecutors as they pursued homicide charges against Jennifer and James Crumbley, whose son killed four students at Oxford High.”
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The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave
“Mickey Barreto’s five-year stay cost him only $200.57. Now it might cost him his freedom.”
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The Venture
“How two single moms escaped an alleged sex-trafficking ring and ultimately saved each other.”
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The South Korean Woman Who Adopted Her Best Friend
“How Korean women are rejecting marriage while reimagining what family means in an increasingly lonely, aging society.”
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She Was Told Her Twin Sons Wouldn’t Survive. Texas Law Made Her Give Birth Anyway.
“Miranda Michel, 26, couldn’t leave the state for an abortion. But she also couldn’t bear the idea of carrying a nonviable pregnancy to term.”
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The Law of the Sea
“Down in the deep, the legal distinction between land and sea no longer holds.”
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Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire
“For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted luxury trips from a major Republican donor, newly obtained documents and interviews show.”