Joe Sexton

A report by New York Attorney General Letitia James says that a survey of dozens of nursing homes suggests the number of residents who died of COVID-19 could be a huge undercount.

Cuomo’s new book on leadership, published as the pandemic continues to ravage America, touts his willingness to speak hard truths about the pandemic. Why then has he still not said how many nursing home residents perished on his watch?

The review will involve only cases the judge, ShawnDya Simpson of State Supreme Court, dealt with while on medical leave.

The deaths of 18 residents of a New York nursing home highlight the continuing controversy over the Cuomo administration’s decision not to count deaths in hospitals as nursing home deaths. The home denies the allegations.

Dozens of New York nursing homes didn’t see their first COVID-19 case until sick patients were sent there, many under Andrew Cuomo’s state policy. To date, 6% of the state’s nursing home population, or roughly 6,500 residents, have died.

A wrenching decision to end life support, and the unthinkable mistake that devastated not one but two families.

The federal authorities confront a Neo-Nazi group that ProPublica and Frontline have been covering for years.

The president has had scores of his initiatives shot down by federal judges. The Washington Post actually counted how many.

Police have radically cut back their use of stop-and-frisk policies. To the surprise of some, crime didn’t spike, but tumbled yet again.

A new federal survey on hate crimes offers cause for both alarm and confusion.

A review of the work of the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct chronicles the costs of a tradition resistant to change.

Girls, many of whom have suffered a range of trauma at home, make up a growing share of children arrested and detained across the country.

The prosecution says Pedro Hernandez fled New York after killing Etan Patz. A detectives report from 1979 suggests that might not be so.

News organizations ask New York appellate court to force judge to unseal hearings on evidence and jurors in famous missing child case.

The Etan Patz murder trial is the latest test case for measuring the power of a confession, whether or not it’s actually true.

Pedro Hernandez, a man with an IQ of 70 and history of mental illness, confessed to strangling a 6-year-old boy after investigators appealed to his religious faith.

Pedro Hernandez confessed two years ago to killing the 6-year-old. Now a judge will decide whether it’s admissible.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

A wrongly convicted Brooklyn man will receive millions in compensation from New York City, but that doesn’t address the broader lack of consequences when prosecutors abuse their power.

Emeritus Senior Living, the country’s largest assisted living company, has agreed to pay as much as $2.2 million to settle a suit that the company routinely underpaid workers.