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New research provides evidence of how extraordinarily different one person’s “smellscape” may be from another’s. It’s not that some people are better smellers; it’s that any one person might experience certain scents more intensely than their peers.

By 2010, the evidence about how interrogations can go wrong had become so compelling that Kassin and several colleagues from the U.S. and U.K. wrote an American Psychological Association white paper warning about the risk of coercion.

These restrictions have already cost many thousands of people their health coverage and access to care and could harm millions more.

Excerpt from Flint Taylor's new book "The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago"

The California Institution for Men is an important reminder that the U.S. practiced in the past what prison reformers admire as humanistic punishment elsewhere.

A public memorial is a reminder that the present is traceable to a past when people tortured by law enforcement in this country fought to make their experiences known and part of official history—and won.

Starring Cate Blanchett, Aduba is among the 11 new cast members to the series. Mrs. America tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly.

Mercy says nurses returned Thursday, local UAW says informational meetings now are Friday and Saturday

Talks are not even taking place in the same city, since there are at least two sets of discussions ongoing.

Those losses are the result of highly sophisticated and intense anti-union campaigns by employers, business groups, and politicians. They are also the result of the unsophisticated, shallow organizing approach of the UAW.