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Nation
Decades after police bombing, Philadelphians ‘sickened’ by handling of victim’s bones
In 1985, police flew a helicopter over a West Philadelphia neighborhood and dropped a bomb on the row house where members of the communal, anti-government group MOVE lived. The bomb started a fire, and police ordered firefighters to let it burn. Eleven people were killed, and more than 60 nearby homes were destroyed. This week officials at two Ivy League universities acknowledged that anthropologists had been passing the bones of a young victim between them for the last 36 years. Continue reading →
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World
As COVID-19 devastates India, deaths go undercounted
Each day, the government reports more than 300,000 new infections, a world record, and India is now seeing more new infections than any other country by far, almost half of all new cases in a global surge. But experts say those numbers, however staggering, represent just a fraction of the real reach of the virus’ spread, which has thrown this country into emergency mode. Continue reading →
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EDITORIAL
Pack the lower courts
Forget the question of whether the US Supreme Court should have more justices. Urgent, bipartisan reform is needed elsewhere in the federal judiciary. Continue reading →
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