Investigations

Trump's hush money trial has a date, as his Georgia case attempts to disqualify the prosecutor

4:42pm February 15, 2024

A date is set for former President Donald Trump's New York criminal trial revolving around hush money payments made during the 2016 campaign. Meanwhile, the Georgia election interference case is caught up in an effort to disqualify the prosecutor.

A registered scavenger, who mainly collects plastic waste to sell, walking in a landfill in Indonesia.

Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf

2:53pm February 15, 2024

by Michael Copley

Recycling "does not solve the solid waste problem," the head of a plastics trade group said in 1989, around the time the industry was launching its recycling campaign.

Former Marine Jason Miles stands in front of his home in Clinton, Miss. He lost a sales job during the pandemic and had to take a forbearance.

Lawmakers move to help veterans at risk of losing their homes

6:31pm February 01, 2024

Senators are introducing a new bill to help thousands of veterans who, through no fault of their own, were left facing foreclosure when a VA COVID-assistance program ended abruptly.

Left: A photo provided by Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife. Right: Alabama's lethal injection chamber at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., seen in 2002.

National

Alabama executes man by nitrogen gas for the first time in the U.S.

10:56pm January 25, 2024

Kenneth Smith, 58, died at 8:25 pm Thursday night, after a slew of last minute appeals to several courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, failed.

National

Alabama will attempt the nation's first execution by nitrogen this week

4:41pm January 22, 2024

by Chiara Eisner

After a failed lethal injection, Alabama is planning to execute a man using nitrogen gas on Thursday. The method has never been used in the U.S.

E. Jean Carroll testifies against Trump once more

5:29pm January 17, 2024

The writer E. Jean Carroll testified today in her defamation case against former President Trump, saying that his remarks about her "shattered" her reputation.

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in September 2022. At the rally, Trump invited the president and founder of the nonprofit Patriot Freedom Project to give a speech. The group's close ties to Trump have prompted scrutiny from lawmakers.

Politics & Government

Lawmakers call for IRS scrutiny of Trump-backed nonprofit that aids Jan. 6 rioters

4:26pm January 17, 2024

by Tom Dreisbach

A nonprofit that supports defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is facing scrutiny over its political activity. "The IRS should investigate this case immediately," said one congressman.

The Alabama Department of Corrections plans to execute Kenneth Smith on Jan. 25 using nitrogen gas. It will be the first time the gas has been used as an execution method in the U.S.

National

Kenneth Smith could be the first person executed with nitrogen gas. He spoke with NPR

2:47pm January 17, 2024

by Chiara Eisner

Smith rarely speaks with reporters about surviving a lethal injection execution in 2022. But he talked with NPR about Alabama's plans to try again, this time with a new method: nitrogen gas.

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Donald Trump launched his latest presidential campaign with a rally in Waco, Texas. At the beginning of the rally, Trump played a song featuring the J6 Prison Choir, made up of defendants in jail on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Politics & Government

The Trump campaign embraces Jan. 6 rioters with money and pardon promises

5:41pm January 04, 2024

Three years after supporters of Donald Trump violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the future of the criminal cases against the rioters may hinge on the presidential election.

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The Georgia State Capitol was among several state legislatures evacuated Wednesday following bomb threats.

Several state capitols evacuated after bomb threats

2:21pm January 03, 2024

by NPR Washington Desk

The development comes just days before the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.