quote [ It?s all about a progressive, rational policy for social control. There?s this idea known as ?deviance amplification? ? basically, when you want to stop a behavior, the worst thing you can do is prohibit it. Social inclusion is the most productive means of social control. You have to have a system where most of people?s engagement with the authorities is as positive as possible. ]

quote [ Court records reveal a lien against Stephen Moore, an economic adviser whom the president said last week he would nominate to the Fed?s Board of Governors. ]

quote [ Report showing the number of people who are locked up in different types of facilities and why ]

quote [ Judge Vagn Joensen said the original sentence was too lenient, given the "sheer scale and systematic cruelty" of his crimes. ]

quote [ She severed her hand with a circular saw to collect ?400,000 in compensation, Slovenian police say. The group left the severed hand behind rather than bring it to hospital, to ensure the disability was permanent. But the authorities recovered it in time to sew it back on. ]

quote [ In 2017, an uncovered toy theft ruptured the Star Wars collecting community. Two years later, the collectors?and the convicted?are still looking for a way forward. ]

quote [ ...after the Democratic National Committee said Russian hackers had stolen troves of emails. It became the first inkling that ?Americans might be working with the Russians,? former FBI Director James Comey would later tell a House committee.

Nearly three years later, the investigation launched from that single contact has taken down a half-dozen senior aides to President Donald Trump, including his campaign chairman Paul Manafort, national security adviser Michael Flynn and personal attorney Michael Cohen. And it has cascaded far beyond that, into Trump's campaign and private business. ]

quote [ The attorney general intends to indict Benjamin Netanyahu on bribery, fraud and breach of trust charges. ]

quote [ San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announced Monday that his office will wipe out more than 9,000 marijuana-related convictions in an unprecedented step following California?s cannabis legalization more than two years ago.

Gascón last year teamed up with Code for America ? a nonprofit focused on using open-source technology to improve government ? to find every marijuana case eligible for expungement or resentencing under Proposition 64. San Francisco will be the first city in the country to clear all eligible pot convictions. ]

quote [ Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and Robert Kraft: Wealth inequality is turning super-rich into comic-book villains ]