By Erin Einhorn, NBC News, and Olivia Lewis, BridgeDetroit July 19, 2021 This article was published in partnership with BridgeDetroit, a nonprofit community news, information and engagement media service. DETROIT — When they started building the wall behind Margaret Watson’s house in northwest Detroit, …
Three of the country's wealthiest states are on track to receive more than half of the money from a new program helping communities prepare for extreme weather. Sharon Louis worries that her Chicago neighborhood on the city’s South Side is on borrowed time. Waves from Lake Michigan batter apartments …
Some people have been quickly cleared, while others are still waiting. Seventeen years later, Rasaan Shannon still feels the bolt of fear that hit him when his court-appointed lawyer told him he faced up to three decades in prison for a drug charge he says was orchestrated by a corrupt Chicago …
"In a system where you have to wait two years for dental care, it’s barbaric," said a lawyer who represents prisoners. "Inside Out" by Keri Blakinger is a partnership between NBC News and The Marshall Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering the U.S. criminal justice system. The column draws on …
The ban-evasion efforts on Facebook and Instagram are ratcheting up as the White House has increased pressure on the social media platforms to do more to contain vaccine misinformation. Some anti-vaccination groups on Facebook are changing their names to euphemisms like “Dance Party” or “Dinner …
Ramon Reid, who calls himself the Modern Caveman, is experiencing a lot of small moments in life for the first time. Ramon Reid is 51. He spent 31 years of his life in prison. There’s a lot he hasn’t experienced. “For instance, I had never been to Walmart or on a motorcycle or on a boat. Never been …
These buyers often come armed with the kind of financial firepower ordinary Americans can't hope to match, housing experts say. The lack of supply of single-family homes has pushed up housing prices in many markets across the country — but would-be homebuyers find they are being outbid not just by …
For now, the ball is in the government’s court, but a lot will depend on whether demonstrators maintain the momentum they created this month. The historic and spontaneous protests that rocked Cuba on July 11 took the communist government — and the international community — by surprise in terms of …
The actor drew scrutiny this summer after the Kremlin-backed television channel RT America announced he would host a new talk show for the network. In March, William Shatner turned 90, an age when many entertainers are comfortably settled into retirement. But the actor best known for embodying …
The delta variant now accounts for more than 83 percent of new Covid-19 cases, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Tuesday. Just one month ago, it accounted for just over 30 percent of new cases, representing an unexpected surge in the “hypertransmissible” variant.
