For nearly a century, police and prosecutors have been on notice that relying on eyewitness testimony is risky. But that hasn’t stopped them from using it to prosecute cases – sometimes sending the innocent to prison. The Dallas Morning News spent most of this year investigating Dallas County’s 19 DNA exonerations as [...]

(From the NY Times Political Blog)
By Leslie Wayne
Election-help phone lines are already starting to ring off the hook.
Some of the biggest organizations that are providing hotlines to help voters get to the polls are reporting that early voting is bringing a lot of early calling. And they are bracing for what they expect [...]

By Kate Phillips,
From: The NY Times
Standing in line for a long time at polls on Tuesday? Did you get turned away because you wore a T-shirt emblazoned with your candidate’s name? Are there machine problems, identification issues?
There are a number of legal and civic groups already in position to help, with their [...]

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer
WASHINGTON – Carbon dioxide [...]

Adapted from a AARP video, which unfortunately give smaller parties short shrift.

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