quote [ Over the past three years, the structures that once allowed executives and internal activists to hash out tensions had badly eroded. In their place was a new machinery that the company's activists on the left had built up, one that skillfully leveraged media attention and drew on traditional organizing tactics. Dissent was no longer a family affair. ]

quote [ Arpaio?s loss in Arizona?s Senate Republican primary is a fitting end to the public life of a truly sadistic man. ]

quote [ The guards did not check on him for three hours, officials said. The disclosures came as the guards and the warden at the jail were removed. ]

quote [ Add bird feces to the long list of substances to trigger false positives in drug field tests. ]

quote [ Mr. Epstein, the financier indicted on sex trafficking charges last month, hanged himself and his body was found Saturday morning. ]

quote [ Hispanic workers at the company?s Morton, Mississippi, chicken processing plant were subjected to touching and sexually suggestive comments, were hit, were charged money for ?normal everyday work activities? and faced retaliation after complaining, EEOC alleged.

After immigration authorities rounded up hundreds of workers in a massive sweep at seven Mississippi food processing plants, friends and family members are desperately searching for answers. ]

quote [ ?Juanita? (not her actual name) was on a road trip from San Jose, California, to Mexico via Phoenix, Arizona. In Mexico she was going to try to reunite with her fiancé, from whom she was estranged. (...) South of San Jose, she stopped to pick up a pregnant-looking hitchhiker who turned out to be accompanied by two men. All three were from the Manson Family. ]

quote [ Health insurers are regarded as fierce defenders of health care dollars. But the case of David Williams shows one reason America?s health care costs continue to rise. The personal trainer spent years posing as a doctor and billing the nation?s top insurers, making off with millions. ]

quote [ Less noticed [...] was a galvanic blow delivered to democracy by the Census Bureau just last year?when the bureau declined to change long-standing policy and count incarcerated persons where they previously lived, rather than in the place of their imprisonment. Because prisons tend to be located in white, rural districts, counting prison populations by prison location artificially inflates these districts? political power and diminishes political representation for urban and suburban areas. ]

quote [ According to the indictment, between 2002 and 2005, Epstein ran a trafficking enterprise in which he paid hundreds of dollars in cash to girls as young as 14 to have sex with him at his Upper East Side home and his estate in Palm Beach, worked with employees and associates to lure the girls to his residences and paid some of his victims to recruit other girls for him to abuse.
"In this way, Epstein created a vast network of underage victims for him to sexually exploit, often on a daily basis," Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said in a statement. ]