Outside the Beltway

A shocking and yet completely unsurprising development.

A researcher has documented 66 separate incidents since May 27.

A marked rise in shooting deaths is going largely unnoticed.

The preliminary hearing revealed a damning case against the shooter of a young black man.

The President of the United States is on the precipice of fascism.

The mayhem surrounding the demonstrations is drawing attention away from the grievance behind them.

If the goal is to change politics, not just vent frustration, messaging is important.

Outside agitators, including white supremacist groups, are shaping public perception of the George Floyd protests.

A stroll down memory lane.

The wheels of justice ran more swiftly than usual.

Likely the right outcome but I wish I political motivation weren’t the default presumption.

A bizarre twist to a tragic story.

A look at the employment records of one of the men involved in the Ahmaud Arbery shooting.

We now have more context but not more relevant facts.

The grand jury was disbanded, so there was no need to continue the coercion tactic.

Lee Boyd Malvo may be eligible for parole in two years.

Prosecutors in two Virginia counties have announced that they will decline to prosecute low-level drug possession cases.

Willie Simmons is 61 years old. He’s spent the last 38 years in prison for stealing $9.00 thanks to what clearly appears to be an unjust and overly hard “habitual offender” statute. His story is far too common.

California Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr. will remain in office for the rest of 2019 notwithstanding his guilty plea.

A new poll finds that a strong majority of Americans support life in prison instead of the death penalty.

Later today, California Congressman Duncan Hunter, Jr. will plead guilty to charges of embezzling up to $250,000 from his campaign’s bank account.

The vultures keep circling above the head of “America’s Mayor.”

An inexcusable assault on an utterly defenseless African-American teenager.

One of Donald Trump”s closest associates has been convicted by a Federal jury.

As the impeachment proceedings move forward, Democrats are shifting their focus to a specific, and powerful, charge.

The officer involved in the shooting death of a woman in Fort Worth, Texas has been charged with murder.

Another police shooting of an innocent African-American. This time in Fort Worth, Texas.

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is under criminal investigation by the same office he once headed as U.S. Attorney.

Two associates of President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani were arrested on their way out of the country, and the question is what connection Giuliani may have to the reasons behind their arrest.

After an emotional sentencing hearing that included an extraordinary display of mercy and forgiveness from her victim’s family, former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of ,murder in the death of Botham Jean, an innocent man who was murdered for the “crime” of being in his own apartment.

Congressman Chris Collins, an early supporter of President Trump’s, will be pleading guilty to insider trading charges.

The real crime is what’s legal.

The effort to bring Catholic Church officials to justice for their decades of criminal conspiracy and child abuse continues to move forward.

Another nonsense ruling on an issue that doesn’t belong in court to begin with.

From the State of Alabama we get a perfect example of the reason why, at times, the law is an ass.

A Florida jury has convicted a man involved in an argument over a parking space of manslaughter, rejecting his attempt to invoke the state’s ‘stand your ground’ law

We may have the first known case of a crime committed in space.

More than five years after the fact, the NYPD officer who applied an illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner has finally been fired.

Confirming the original diagnosis, Jeffrey Epstein’s death last weekend has been ruled a suicide.

Jeffrey Epstein’s death by suicide has led to many legitimate questions that should be investigated. It has also led to the rise of a number of baseless conspiracy theories.

Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested earlier this summer on sex trafficking and abuse charges, has died of what appears to be a suicide in his jail cell.

Cesar Sayoc, the man who started a panic in October when he sent apparent explosive devices to a number of President Trump’s critics, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison

Less than twelve hours after the mass shooting in Texas, another one occurred overnight in Dayton, Ohio.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

While much of the talk about Robert Mueller’s testimony has focused on the Trump campaign, there was another part to his testimony that brings attention to a far more serious threat.

Detroit shows how modern technology can lead to a virtual police state.

Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was formally charged with multiple counts of procuring underage girls for sexual molestation.

Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire investor previously charged with sex crimes involving minors, has been charged with sex trafficking involving minors.

A Florida Woman is being charged with felony burglary after breaking into her estranged husband’s apartment to seize his guns and give them to the police.