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Fight over retail theft is testing California Democrats' strive to avoid mass incarceration policies
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 9 hours agoCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom and state leaders reversed course on a plan to place a crime-focused...
Newsom pulls anti-crime ballot measure, capping Democrats' chaotic response to Prop. 47 reform
LA Times via Yahoo News Singapore· 22 hours ago“We...clear choice for voters.” Newsom said he planned to "soon" sign the package of anti-crime...
Singapore to cane Japanese hairdresser for rape
BBC via Yahoo News Singapore· 21 hours agoOne said that "in Japan, when it comes to sexual assault, society and the police make victims feel guilty, and the punishment is far ...
Newsom and Democratic lawmakers announce ballot measure to rival more conservative crime reform
LA Times via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 days agoThe Legislature this week is expected to OK a fall ballot measure — a rival to more conservative ...
Top California Democrats announce ballot measure targeting retail theft
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 days agoTop California Democrats want to advance legislation to crack down on retail theft, announcing they...
Supreme Court Overturns Homeless Rights In New Decision
HuffPost via Yahoo News Singapore· 6 days agoIn a scathing dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor addressed the predicament that many homeless...
IS: A persistent danger, 10 years since its peak
BBC via Yahoo News Singapore· 5 days agoYet the Taliban and IS are bitter rivals - and after 20 years as insurgents, the Taliban are now finding themselves the poachers...or any real...
Ukraine's convicts offered release at a high price: Joining the fight against Russia
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 days agoAt a rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine, several convicts stand assembled under barbed wire to...
How camping bans − like the one the Supreme Court just upheld − can fit into ‘hostile design’:...
The Conversation via Yahoo News Singapore· 6 days agoCritics have argued that this policy was a form of “cruel and unusual punishment,” in violation of...
China urges 'severe punishment' for killers of citizen in Philippines
South China Morning Post via Yahoo Singapore Finance· 2 days agoChina has urged the Philippines to find and "severely punish" the killers of a kidnapped Chinese citizen in a case that has led to a diplomatic intervention by Beijing. The ...