Disha Raychaudhuri

Reuters

Scorching cells

How heat threatens lives in America's prisons

Reuters

The rise of anti-trans bills in the US

How anti-trans bills in the U.S. restrict access to gender-affirming healthcare

Reuters

How corporate chiefs dodge lawsuits over sex abuse and deadly products

Wealthy company leaders regularly escape accountability for corporate scandals by demanding lifetime protection from related lawsuits in bankruptcy court.

The Star-Ledger

Black people in N.J. say they're more likely to be punched, kicked by cops. Now, data backs that up.

Black people are three times more likely to face police force than whites, according to findings in The Force Report.

The Star-Ledger

The Force Report

This is how often N.J. police officers use force and how they compare to the rest of the state.

Reuters

Nearly 200,000 Ukrainians in US thrown into legal limbo by Trump immigration crackdown

The administration soon will decide the fate of a humanitarian program that allowed some people who fled the war in Ukraine to live and work in the United States.

Reuters

Lawyers spurn Trump campaign in individual donations, including from Jones Day

Lawyers at Jones Day, which has earned millions as outside counsel to U.S. President Donald Trump's re-election campaign, have donated nearly $90,000 to the campaign committee of Trump's Democratic rival Joe Biden. Contributions to the Trump campaign by Jones Day lawyers...

Reuters

Black women face a maternal health crisis. Advocates want to make that a US election issue.

Black women suffer from higher rates of pregnancy and delivery complications.

Reuters

Insight: For groups fighting U.S. opioid crisis, settlement money can be hard to come by

Companies accused of fueling the crisis have paid out more than $3 billion, but has any of the money reached the people who need it? It depends where you live. Yes, if you're in Massachusetts; no, in Texas.

Reuters

Boy Scouts, Catholic dioceses find haven from sex abuse suits in bankruptcy

Lawmakers around the United States have tried to grant justice to victims of decades-old incidents of child sexual abuse by giving them extra time to file lawsuits. Those defendants, including church and youth groups, are counterpunching in bankruptcy courts.

Reuters

Trump's war on 'woke' forces community lenders to cut services or close

A year ago, Karlene Sinclair-Robinson was writing loans and hosting education seminars for small businesses and entrepreneurs as finance director of a community development financial institution, or CDFI, in northern Virginia. Now, she's helping shut it down for good on December 31.

Reuters

Some companies alter diversity policies after conservatives' lawsuit threat

At least six major US firms have modified policies meant to boost racial and ethnic representation that conservative groups threatened to sue over, a Reuters review of corporate statements has found.

Reuters

Trump's first 100 days target diversity policies, civil rights protections

In his second term, Trump revoked a landmark 1965 executive order mandating equal employment opportunities for all, slashed environmental actions to protect communities of color and ordered the gutting of an agency that helped fund minority and women-owned businesses.

Reuters

Prosecutors wanted: District attorneys struggle to recruit and retain lawyers

District attorneys' offices across the U.S. are struggling to recruit and retain lawyers, with some experiencing vacancies of up to 16% and a dearth of applicants for open jobs, according to interviews with more than a dozen top prosecutors and five state and national prosecutors' associations.

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