Outside the Beltway

A dozen people died late yesterday in a workplace shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center.

In a first of its kind move, voters in Denver have voted to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.

A Virginia Judge has ruled that automated license plate collection systems violate state law.

A Federal Appeals Court recently found that chalking the tires of a car parked in a public place is a violation of the Fourth Amendment. It’s not at all clear that this decision is correct.

Blasts at Christian churches and tourist hotels appear to be a coordinated terrorist attack.

The esteemed biographer on his process.

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

The President’s latest ravings are “very bad, very bad.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being charged with three charges of corruption even as he faces an election in just over a month.

Gun laws requiring guns to be taken away from convicted felons are either being ignored or have too many loopholes. We need to fix that.

Actor Jussie Smollett is charged with staging an attack initially called a “hate crime.”

The shooter who killed five people in a factory in Illinois on Friday should not have had a gun to begin with.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court rejected a challenge by three women to their prosecution for going topless on a public beach in the Granite State.

The situation in Venezuela entered a new stage yesterday as opposition leader Juan Guaidó claimed the nation’s Presidency.

For the first tine in nearly ten years, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving Second Amendment rights.

A Chicago police officer convicted of second-degree murder has been sentenced to seven years in prison, but could be out in as little as three-and-a-half.

Washington State has a problem with people stealing “Mile 420” signs, so they’ve come up with a solution.

Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of The House again after eight years out of power, but there’s little time for her to celebrate.

A Federal Judge has ruled that neither the Sheriff’s Office nor the School Board had a specific duty to protect individual students during the shooting last February in Parkland, Florida.

A fifty-year-old song is getting new scrutiny in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

Protests that have killed four and injured hundreds have been rewarded and show no sign of ending.

American troops have been in Afghanistan for seventeen years now, it’s time to bring them all home.

Former Dallas police office Amber Guyger has been charged with murder in connection with the September shooting of Botham Jean in his own apartment.

The Supreme Court appears ready to impose at least some limits on civil asset forfeiture at the state level.

A bad look for all concerned.

The man responsible for the deaths of eleven people in a Pittsburgh synagogue has been indicted on 44 counts by a Federal Grand Jury.

Overwhelmingly, legal experts agree that President Trump is wrong about birthright citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment.

Charges have been filed against the man responsible for the massacre in Pittsburgh in both Federal and State court.

At least eight people are dead in a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

Four suspicious packages addressed to prominent political and media figures have been intercepted in the past three days.

Scenes from the war on drugs.

Another example of just how imperfect our system of justice can be.

The evidence that Saudi Arabia murdered Washington Post columnist and American Permanent resident Jamal Khashoggi appears to be incontrovertible.

Last Tuesday, Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain a document he needed. He hasn’t been seen since.

Nearly four years after the fact, a Chicago Police Officer has been found guilty of murder in the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

Amber Guyger has been fired by the Dallas Police Department, now it’s up to the justice system to hold her accountable for her actions.

The shooting of Botham Jean by off-duty Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger earlier this month seems like a clear cut murder. So why is she only charged with manslaughter?

A significant advance for LGBT rights in the world’s most populous democracy.

British authorities have charged two members of Russian military intelligence in connection with a poisoning attack on British attack.

Chicago won’t have Rahm Emanuel to kick around anymore.

The military regime in Myanmar has sentenced two reporters to prison for reporting on the repression of the Rohingya Muslims.

President Trump’s much-hyped replacement for NAFTA doesn’t really amount to much and won’t amount to anything unless he can get Canada, and the U.S. Congress, on board.

A Florida man who shot and killed an African-American male amid a parking lot confrontation will face manslaughter charges after all.

White supremacists held a rally in Washington on Sunday, and almost no one but their opponents and the police showed up.

Next week, some of the same groups that rallied in Charlottesville last year will be gathering in Washington, D.C. and the D.C. Metro is considering a transportation plan that is causing controversy.

A Federal Appeals Court has found that a Trump Administration policy purporting to punish so-called sanctuary cities is unconstitutional.

A police officer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania who tased an apparently compliant African-American man will not be disciplined by his department, and probably won’t face charges either.

The right-wing government in Warsaw has purged more than one-third of the members of the Polish Supreme Court in a crackdown on political opponents.

What was once a rare symbol of national mourning has become so commonplace as to be meaningless.

Another incident involving what clearly seems to be the inappropriate use of force against an African-American man.