Fingerprint Analysis Is High-Stakes Work — but It Doesn’t Take Much to Qualify as an Expert
One wrong fingerprint match could send an innocent person to prison or see a killer go free. But proficiency tests are frighteningly easy to pass.
One wrong fingerprint match could send an innocent person to prison or see a killer go free. But proficiency tests are frighteningly easy to pass.
Updated: CNN’s Democratic presidential primary debate was framed like an ambush against Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders — who then ended up dominating it.
In South Carolina, everyone had their sights set on the newly minted frontrunner.
The DCCC seems to have little interest in 2020 in revisiting its assessment of candidates who almost won in 2018, despite having no party support.
“At the gas station, we found a long line of vehicles stretching most of the length of the very small town. The sight of this, plus thickening orange haze, reminded me of a disaster movie.”
“When we have highly qualified teachers, we don’t want all of those teachers being in upper-middle-class neighborhoods educating kids to go to Harvard and Yale."
At the Department of Labor, Alex Acosta continues to ensure that those vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation are made more vulnerable still.
In testimony obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, the current and former heads of U.S. Africa Command sketched out their concerns.
Days before the anniversary of the deadly Camp Fire that killed 86 people, a community in California unveiled a plan to adopt its own Green New Deal.
A federal judge gave government lawyers two days to make sense of the president's baffling tweet on the effort to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census.
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