At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Sandra never knew what happened to the child she had at 17. Growing up in a respected, church-going, middle-class family...
Lawyers
Episode Seven: Dirty Information
In 2004, New York narcotics officers raided Alberta Spruill’s home, shattering her door and detonating a flash grenade. Spruill, a...
Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Killings By Claiming the Target Is Drugs, Not People
The Trump administration is promising legal cover for military personnel who carry out lethal attacks on the alleged drug smugglers...
Judge Failed to Disclose Personal Ties to Prosecutor in Two Death Row Cases
From her perch on the witness stand, 81-year-old Fern Smith cast a flinty stare at the defense attorney standing before...
Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention
“I felt genuinely happy for a few hours, from the depths of my heart, for the first time in two...
The President Is Perfectly Fine If You Starve
Donald Trump speaks during an event about drug prices on Nov. 6, 2025, in the Oval Office of the White...
New York’s Largest ICE Prison Dogged by Allegations of Shoddy Medical Care
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and staff have administered what experts said was shoddy medical treatment to at least...
Episode Five: What Fourth Amendment?
In June 2010, Las Vegas police conducted a no-knock raid on Trevon Cole’s apartment, where he lived with his nine-months-pregnant...
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
A documentary featuring mothers surviving Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A video investigation uncovering Israel’s role in the killing of a...
Trump Administration Admits It Doesn’t Know Who Exactly It’s Killing in Boat Strikes
The Trump administration has made a series of startling admissions about the people it is killing in its undeclared war...
Her Mentor Sent Richard Glossip to Death Row. Can She Give Him a Fair Trial?
Inside her chambers at the Oklahoma County Courthouse, Judge Susan Stallings was defending her refusal to step down from the...
Internal Report Shows the Military Always Wanted to Join the Drug War
A decade before President Donald Trump boasted of “hunting” alleged “narcoterrorists” on boats off the coast of Venezuela, the Defense...
DHS Is Billing Unaccompanied Immigrant Kids $5,000
The Department of Homeland Security has sent unaccompanied immigrant teenagers $5,000 fines for illegally entering the United States, according to...
Admiral’s Mystery Retirement Amid Secret War Leaves Key Command in Turmoil
U.S. Southern Command, which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, is in turmoil after the announcement of...
Court Rejects Journalist’s Case Because He Couldn’t Submit an Original Signature From Gaza
A regional court in Frankfurt, Germany, dismissed Palestinian photojournalist Anas Zayed Fteiha’s legal action against German media giant Axel Springer,...
