A California senator introduced a bill last week that seeks to change the legal standard for expert witness testimony, specifically in relation to forensic evidence.
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Forensic anthropologists know that race isn’t based in biological fact, but in a history and culture that assigns meaning to physical traits that occur among different human populations. Why, then, are they still relying on a tool from the field’s negative roots in “race science”?
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Prosecutors in northern Mexico confirmed Saturday that at least two of the 19 people found shot to death and burned near the U.S. border were Guatemalan migrants. Two other victims among the four identified so far were Mexicans.
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A forensic dentist and local artist assisted with the creation of a composite photo. There are also photos of a backpack and shoes found at the scene.
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K9 Dennis jumps around the obstacle course at the Phoenix Police Department's Regional K9 Training Center. He's healthy, happy, and a little yappy. It's hard to believe that just last month this same police dog was shot in the line of duty
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Philadelphia has a “zombie drug” problem, and experts are concerned it is going to start rapidly spreading to other parts of the U.S.—just as the drug infiltrated the City of Brotherly Love from Puerto Rico about 5 years ago.
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Police in Waterbury, Connecticut said last week they arrested and charged a local man in the killing of a teenager nearly 17 years ago.
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San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said he plans to file murder charges against two men arrested last week for the attempted robbery and fatal attack on famed private investigator Jack Palladino.
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The skeletons are today far from complete. Only fragments of a tibia, a femur and a mummified foot remain. The tibia and foot are attributed to St. Philip, the femur to St. James. It appears likely that this has been the case since the sixth century.
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The software company SolarWinds unwittingly allowed hackers’ code into thousands of federal computers. A cybersecurity system called in-toto, which the government paid to develop but never required, might have protected against this.
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