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Former Attorney General Eric Holder delivers remarks during the Justice Department Inspector General's annual awards ceremony in the Great Hall at the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington, DC.

How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without ever charging him with a crime

August 18, 2019 at 7:29 p.m.

Joseph Rivers was hoping to hit it big. According to the Albuquerque Journal, the aspiring businessman from just outside of Detroit had pulled together $16,000 in seed money to fulfill...

The most racist places in America: study

June 24, 2019 at 5:01 a.m.

Where do America's most racist people live? "The rural Northeast and South," suggests a new study just published in PLOS ONE. The paper introduces a novel but makes-tons-of-sense-when-you-think-about-it method for...

A $40 million mansion in Washington state with gardens, lagoons, a private dock with space for a 140 foot yacht and 175 feet of lakefront.

The rich get government handouts just like the poor. Here are 10 of them

August 18, 2019 at 7:12 p.m.

In case you are still skeptical that many of the non-poor — and, in fact, a lot of the rich — receive benefits from government too (for which we don't...

The richer you are, the better you sleep

June 15, 2018 at 8:17 p.m.

Mo' money, mo' sleep. That's the takeaway from a fascinating slice of data the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week looking at sleep levels by income group. Crunching...

Brunch is probably gaining steam because of major trends in how Americans eat breakfast, which isn't the family affair it used to be.

How brunch became the most delicious, and divisive, meal in America

June 15, 2018 at 8:15 p.m.

Almost 120 years ago, long before anyone waited in line to feast on eggs Benedict and French toast, the word "brunch" appeared in print for the first time in the...

Why Americans overwhelmingly prefer fake maple syrup

August 18, 2019 at 7:04 p.m.

It's peak sugaring season in much of the Northeast, when the country's maple syrup producers tap their trees to collect the sap that flows freely this time of year. It...

Releasing parolees to apartments subsidized by the state and supervising them with curfews, cameras and GPS bracelets would get them out of prison sooner and save taxpayer money.

A cheaper way to incarcerate

May 25, 2019 at 1:03 p.m.

You probably already know the jaw-dropping stats about American prisons: that the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. That we're home to 5 percent of the world's...

Unplanned pregnancies cost taxpayers $21 billion each year

March 29, 2019 at 8:26 p.m.

Unintended pregnancies cost American taxpayers $21 billion each year, according to a new analysis released by the Guttmacher Institute. That averages out to a cost of about $366 per every...

In this photo, a Miami police officer guides vehicles through a drunk-driving checkpoint in Miami.

Stoned drivers are a lot safer than drunk ones, new federal data show

August 19, 2019 at 2:59 a.m.

A new study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finds that drivers who use marijuana are at a significantly lower risk for a crash than drivers who use alcohol....

Airline passengers behaved better than ever in 2014

April 5, 2019 at 7:01 p.m.

Remember the Knee Defender? The devious device that clips on to the airline seat in front of you to prevent that passenger from reclining and encroaching on your legroom? Thanks...

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