The percentage of women and girls in Nicaragua's second-largest city who reported experiencing physical violence by their partners during their lifetimes decreased from 55% in 1995 to 28% in 2016.
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Lawyers for the Baltimore Police Department told a federal judge that plans for camera-equipped planes to conduct aerial surveillance of the city should proceed, despite the objections of civil liberties advocates.
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“No, you can’t have the touch DNA results in time for the next commercial. It really does take time.” That’s one of the phrases Colleen Fitzpatrick has found herself saying to television writers and producers as she consults on a new crime drama inspired by her life and work.
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The FBI's artifact of the month for April 2020 is Special Agent Barry Black's Hard Hat, which he wore responding to the "Oklahoma City bombing" on April 19, 1995.
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As countries around the world edge toward ending lockdowns and restarting their economies and societies, citizens are being more closely monitored, in nations rich and poor, authoritarian and free.
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New research shows that a visitor’s garden at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women is helping to strengthen connections between the women and their children.
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Using a combination of state-of-the-art instrumentation and techniques, Microtrace, specializes in the characterization and identification of small quantities and single small particles of unknown substances.
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Governor Ralph Northam signed legislation to strengthen Virginia’s writ of actual innocence law, representing the most significant improvements for overturning wrongful convictions in over a decade.
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Fears of getting infected with the coronavirus have prompted authorities in Northern California to allow some sexual assault victims to collect evidence with a nurse directing them in the hours-long process through a video call.
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The testing company will conduct a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in an effort to identify genetic variants that contribute to COVID-19 severity levels.
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