Timothy McLaughlin
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The Tech Site That Took On China’s Surveillance State
How did a trade publisher in Pennsylvania become a principal source of investigative journalism on the repressive apparatus Beijing uses against the Uyghurs? → Read More
China Is Killing Academic Freedom in Hong Kong
Beijing is using dismissals, arrests, and a repressive new law to curtail students’ and professors’ rights. → Read More
America Still Thinks It’s the Election Police
After the 2020 election, who would bother to listen to the U.S. about how to run a vote? → Read More
The Leader Who Killed Her City
Carrie Lam has been a unique failure. Yet she is merely a symptom of Hong Kong’s ills. → Read More
Hong Kong’s Protests Have Cemented Its Identity
Chinese authorities have long sought to sway Hong Kongers, but more and more, residents of the city see it as being distinct from the mainland. → Read More
View from Hong Kong: "They have betrayed us"
Protestors break into the legislative council building on 1st July. Photos: Rex/Shutterstock On the morning of 1st July, Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s beleaguered Chief Executive, clinked champagne flutes with two of the city’s past leaders on stage in a cavernous convention hall. The ceremony, marking the 22nd anniversary of the territory’s handover from Britain to China, was moved indoors for the… → Read More
Resettled Refugees, Seeking Peace in America, Find Gun Violence Instead
In cities across the Midwest, some asylum seekers are placed in neighborhoods where housing costs are low and crime rates are high. → Read More
As shootings soar, Chicago police use technology to predict crime
In a control room at a police headquarters on Chicago's South Side, officers scan digital maps on big screens to see where a computer algorithm predicts crime will happen next. → Read More
As shootings soar, Chicago police use technology to predict crime
In a control room at a police headquarters on Chicago's South Side, officers scan digital maps on big screens to see where a computer algorithm predicts crime will happen next. → Read More
Kansas governor tapped as religious ambassador reflects on legacy
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback on Thursday shrugged off the political backlash and budget woes stirred by his aggressive tax-cutting policies at home as he looked forward to a new role as the Trump administration's chief defender of global religious tolerance. → Read More
Ohio set to execute man after delays over lethal injection drugs
Ohio will put to death on Wednesday a 43-year-old man convicted of raping and killing a 3-year-old child in what will be the state's first execution in more than three years after a lengthy legal dispute over the choice of lethal injection drugs. → Read More
U.S. appeals court upholds Wisconsin 'right-to-work' law
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheldWisconsin's so-called right-to-work law, which bars mandatoryunion membership and prohibits unions and employers fromrequiring non-members to pay dues. → Read More
Trump says he is sending federal help to fight Chicago crime
President Donald Trump said on Friday he was sending federal help to fight crime in Chicago that has reached "epidemic" proportions. → Read More
Trump says he is sending federal help to fight Chicago crime
President Donald Trump said on Friday he was sending federal help to fight crime in Chicago that has reached "epidemic" proportions. → Read More
Meat processor cuts deal with ABC in 'pink slime' defamation case
Beef Products Inc has settled its defamation and libel lawsuit against American Broadcasting Co and its reporter Jim Avila, the meat processor said on Wednesday. → Read More
Suspect in Michigan airport stabbing attempted to buy gun before attack
The man charged with stabbing an airport police officer in Michigan unsuccessfully attempted to purchase a gun before the attack, which is being investigated as an act of terrorism, federal officials said on Thursday. → Read More
Six Michigan officials criminally charged in Flint water crisis
Six current and former Michigan and Flint officials were criminally charged on Wednesday for their roles in the city's water crisis that was suspected of being responsible for an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that led to at least 12 deaths, the state's attorney general said. → Read More
'Trial of a lifetime' plays out in tiny South Dakota town
In this rural outpost of just over 1,900 residents, a local college student has become a courtroom sketch artist, trailers on Main Street are ersatz offices for a major law firm and members of an agricultural youth club are puzzled by a new metal detector at the local courthouse. → Read More
'Pink Slime' case against ABC a challenge to press in era of 'fake news'
A South Dakota meat processor's $5.7 billion defamation lawsuit against American Broadcasting Companies Inc, which opens Monday, pits big agriculture against big media, and is a first major court challenge against a media company since accusations of “fake news” by U.S. President Donald Trump and his supporters have become part of the American vernacular. → Read More
U.S. evangelical green groups pan Trump's climate accord exit
Evangelical Christian environmental groups on Friday panned President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from a global climate change pact, with leaders saying the political left does not have a monopoly on this issue. → Read More