Politics

UPDATED 6:05 PM EST, 2-5-15: According to media reports, senior adviser for policy and communications to Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) resigned after racially insensitive comments were discovered on his Facebook page and published by ThinkProgress and circulated by other media outlets. Earlier: ThinkProgress has reportedly obtained a series of Facebook posts created by the senior adviser for policy and […]

Crime

On Friday the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case brought by 3 men on Oklahoma’s death row. They don’t want to die by the same lethal injection method that resulted in the botched execution of Clayton Lockett last April. A new drug combination, including the sedative midazolam, failed to take effect on Lockett, leading to […]