This illustration depicts the early jawless vertebrate Astraspis being attacked by the sea-scorpion Megalograptus in dark, shallow waters. Both animals likely had tooth-like scales on their bodies that would have allowed them to sense things in the waters around them. Brian Engh/www.livingrelicproductions.com hide caption toggle caption Brian Engh/www.livingrelicproductions.com Yara Haridy, an evolutionary biologist at the […]

Por NICOLE WINFIELD y FRANKLIN BRICEÑO CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (AP) — El papa León XIV se ganó muchos enemigos al ayudar a desmantelar un poderoso movimiento católico cuyos líderes abusaron física, sexual, espiritual y psicológicamente de sus miembros. A medida que el historial de León en el manejo de casos de abuso sexual por parte […]

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. When a homeless man questioned the Phoenix police’s authority to stop him in February 2020, an officer grabbed him and knelt on his neck […]

Melissa Turnage approached the 12-year-old girl with the imposing affect of a cop: arms crossed, lips pursed, badge visible, tone skeptical. “So, you don’t know how many times this has happened this week?” Taylor Cadle slouched on a couch, staring at her lap and picking at her nails. That morning, in the summer of 2016, she […]

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the airplane giant to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people, according to court papers filed Friday. Under the “agreement in principle,” which still needs to be […]

Relatives of victims hold a placard with photos of victims of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash in March 2019, prior to a hearing in Fort Worth, Texas, in January 2023. Shelby Tauber/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Shelby Tauber/AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice told a federal judge […]

U.S. sales of previously owned homes unexpectedly dropped in April to the slowest pace in seven months, restrained by ongoing affordability constraints and highlighting a lackluster start to the key spring selling season. Contract closings decreased 0.5% to an annualized rate of 4 million, according to National Association of Realtors data released recently. That fell short […]

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When top Trump adviser Stephen Miller threatened on May 9 that the administration is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus in response to an “invasion” from undocumented immigrants, he was operating on a […]

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the US criminal justice system. Amairani Salinas was 32 weeks pregnant with her fourth child in 2023 when doctors at a Texas hospital discovered that her baby no longer had a heartbeat. As they prepped her for an emergency cesarean […]