Editor’s Pick

Friday Feature: Sweetwater Scholé

June 2, 2023

Colleen Hroncich Like many creative educational options, Sweetwater Scholé is evidence that necessity is the mother of invention. Despite a career working to advance

The Rights We Give Up under “Marsy’s Law”

June 2, 2023

Walter Olson I’ve written before about the set of state constitutional amendments known as “Marsy’s Law,” promoted as a bill of rights for crime

Is the Bank Secrecy Act Effective at Stopping Crime? No One Knows

June 2, 2023

Nicholas Anthony Although Americans often think that financial privacy is protected by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, financial institutions like banks

World News

Biden signs debt limit bill, pulls US back from brink of default

WASHINGTON — President Joseph R. Biden on Saturday signed a bill that suspends the US...

HK tightens security on Tiananmen anniversary

HONG KONG/TAIPEI — Hong Kong (HK) police said on Sunday they had detained eight people near a...

Purification rite in St. Peter’s after man desecrates altar

VATICAN CITY — A special purification rite was held at the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica...

World’s spy chiefs meet in secret conclave in Singapore

SINGAPORE — Senior officials from about two dozen of the world’s major intelligence agencies...

India train crash survivor recounts: ‘We thought we were dead’

BALASORE, India — Ompal Bhatia, a survivor of the three-train crash in India on Friday, had first...