Law

A Texas man sues ex-wife's friends for allegedly helping her get abortion pills

5:06am March 13, 2023

by Sarah McCammon

A civil lawsuit against three Texans accused of helping a woman get abortion pills may lay the groundwork for prosecutors to seek criminal charges in such cases.

Ayako Marsh Miranda says that as a Black woman, she represents 0.7% of all appraisers in the U.S. She'd like a federal mandate for anti-bias training in the field.

Racial bias often creeps into home appraisals. Here's what's happening to change that

5:01am March 13, 2023

by Jennifer Ludden

Black and Latinx homes are more likely to be undervalued by real estate appraisers, who are mostly older white men. New recruiting and technology aims to change how appraisals are done and by whom.

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People walk on the Stanford University campus beneath Hoover Tower in Stanford, Calif., on March 14, 2019. Stanford University says it is investigating after multiple swastikas and an image of Adolf Hitler were found on a door Saturday at a Stanford student residence hall.

Stanford University investigates swastikas and Hitler image left on student's door

1:08am March 13, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

News of the instance of antisemitism is one of several hate incidents reported on Stanford's campus this academic year.

Trump's interactions with Stormy Daniels are in the spotlight again

5:14pm March 12, 2023

Former president Donald Trump has been invited to speak to a Manhattan grand jury this week. Former prosecutor Harry Litman tells NPR's Michel Martin what this means.

Health & Safety

In states with abortion bans, hospital ethics boards have the power to make exceptions

8:10am March 12, 2023

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Dr. Anne Lyerly, a professor and OB-GYN, about how hospital ethics boards are being invoked when a patient requires a medical exception to an abortion ban.

A closer look at the findings from DOJ's investigation of Louisville police

5:17pm March 11, 2023

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke about the Department of Justice's report about the civil rights abuses in the Louisville Police Department.

National

A Texas lawsuit could have far-reaching implications for abortion pill access

5:17pm March 11, 2023

by Sarah McCammon

A Texas man is suing three women for allegedly helping his now-ex-wife obtain a medication abortion. It's believed to be the first such case since the Supreme Court decision upending abortion rights.

More than two decades after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, the five men accused have still not gone to trial, and four presidential administrations have wrestled with the Guantánamo problem.

A year after plea talks began, the 9/11 case is still in limbo, frustrating families

8:06am March 11, 2023

by Sacha Pfeiffer

Settlement talks began a year ago in the 9/11 terrorism case. But little progress has been made, dragging out the future of the problem-plagued U.S. military court and prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

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Paul Flores listens during his murder trial in Monterey County Superior Court in Salinas, Calif., on July 18, 2022.

National

The man convicted of killing Kristin Smart in 1996 is sentenced to 25 years to life

8:01pm March 10, 2023

by The Associated Press

Smart, 19, disappeared from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo in 1996. Prosecutors maintained that Paul Flores, now 46, killed Smart during an attempted rape.

This combination photo shows Travis McMichael (from left), William Bryan and Gregory McMichael during their trial at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. The three men have filed appeals of their federal hate crime convictions.

National

3 men found guilty in Ahmaud Arbery's murder file appeals of hate crime convictions

5:51pm March 10, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

The 25-year-old Arbery was shot and killed after he was pursued by two of the men, who saw him running in their neighborhood in Brunswick, Ga., on Feb. 23, 2020. The third man filmed the encounter.