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Milwaukee Prosecutors Weigh Charges In Inmate's Dehydration Death

5:06am April 26, 2017

by Doreen McCallister

Prosecutors say Terrill Thomas, 38, had been left alone in his county jail cell for seven days without water. The medical examiner's office says he died of "profound dehydration" in the 2016 incident.

Protester Moina Shaiq holds a sign at a rally outside City Hall in San Francisco. On Tuesday, a federal judge blocked a Trump administration order to withhold funding from sanctuary communities.

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Federal Court In San Francisco Blocks Trump's Threat Against Sanctuary Cities

11:43pm April 25, 2017

by Richard Gonzales

The president's immigration policies have been dealt another setback. A federal judge's ruling will stop the administration from penalizing sanctuary cities while a lawsuit winds through the courts.

Tops to prescription bottles are pictured inside the Wal-Mart pharmacy.

Cherokee Nation Sues Wal-Mart, CVS, Walgreens Over Tribal Opioid Crisis

8:58pm April 25, 2017

by Nate Hegyi

The tribe says these companies regularly filled large, suspicious prescriptions within the Nation's 14 counties in northeastern Oklahoma, leading to hundreds of tribal members' deaths.

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, walk toward Marine One at the White House on March 3. A watchdog group says that Kushner should recuse himself from certain duties since he is President Trump's son-in-law and has potent

Watchdog Group Sees Conflicts In Jared Kushner's Vast Wealth, Responsibilities

8:02pm April 25, 2017

by Peter Overby

Democracy 21 says President Trump's son-in-law should recuse himself from certain duties. Kushner's lawyer says her client "has consistently said that he would follow government ethics requirements."

The inmates in Bellevue are awaiting trial for a variety of offenses, ranging from sleeping on the subway to murder.

Psychiatrist Recalls 'Heartbreak And Hope' On Bellevue's Prison Ward

1:46pm April 25, 2017

by Terry Gross

Dr. Elizabeth Ford treated mentally ill inmates in New York City for more than a decade. It was almost universal, she says, that they had suffered abuse or significant neglect as children.

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Protesters hold up signs during a meeting called "The Resistance Training" hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union in March.

In Trump's First 100 Days, A Resistance Network Digs In

1:39pm April 25, 2017

by Peter Overby

"The common understanding in the watchdog community is that we're going to have to hold the Trump administration responsible, because no one else is going to do it," says strategist Fred Wertheimer.

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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson prepares for an interview at the Governor's Mansion in Little Rock, Ark., on April 13. The governor met with reporters to discuss the state's schedule of executions. So far, one of the executions has been carried out, four hav

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Arkansas Executes Two Inmates, The First Double Execution In U.S. Since 2000

11:43pm April 24, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

Arkansas had planned to kill eight death row inmates in 11 days before courts intervened in some of the cases. Officials wanted to move quickly before supplies of a key lethal injection drug expired.

The Supreme Court justices took up a death penalty case on Monday, looking at an inmate's right to help from a mental health expert.

Justices Split Over Defendants' Right To Mental Health Expert Witnesses

7:29pm April 24, 2017

by Nina Totenberg

Justice Anthony Kennedy appears likely to cast the deciding vote in a Supreme Court case involving a death row inmate's right to help from a mental health expert who is independent of the prosecution.

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Ailes Accuser Says Fox News Execs Ordered Eavesdropping On Her Digital Devices

6:14pm April 24, 2017

by David Folkenflik

Suspended Fox News host Andrea Tantaros says the executives tried to intimidate her by arranging to have her private communications spied on and fed to Twitter accounts acting on the network's behalf.

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Harvard Project Outlines Pattern Of Attorney Failures In Arkansas Death Row Cases

5:05pm April 24, 2017

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jessica Brand of Harvard Law's Fair Punishment Project about the chronic problem of bad lawyering on capital punishment cases. All eight death row cases in Arkansas had examples of attorney failures, including drunk lawyers, a conflict of interest affair involving a judge, lawyers missing deadlines, and failure to disclose mental disorders.

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