The Associated Press Karen Read’s second murder trial revives debate over who killed her Boston police officer boyfriend “I view it as a blow to the defense strategy but not a knockout punch,” Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said of the ruling.
Why do people care so much about the Karen Read case? Read’s assertion that she’s the victim of a law enforcement frame job comes at a moment when distrust of authority and information is running high, said Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University.
The Hill Local government, the last line of defense against the scourge of sports gambling A public health advocacy group at Northeastern University has filed a class-action lawsuit against DraftKings over deceptive advertising in Massachusetts, and multiple former gamblers are suing the company in New Jersey over predatory practices.
AFP Always ‘the enemy’ – Trump steps up media assault in first 100 days It is unclear how far Trump can go in a country that has a rich tradition of investigative reporting and where freedom of speech is protected by the Constitution’s First Amendment. “His ability is limited,” said Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy.
Newsweek Democrats May Be Giving Donald Trump What He Wants Costas Panagopoulos, professor of political science at Northeastern University, offered a different perspective. Panagopoulos told Newsweek he believes Democrats should be talking about immigration and the Garcia case, which may put “a human face on the immigration issue in a way voters can connect with.”
IFLScience Negative News Can Take Its Toll On Your Health – Here’s How A “Detox” Could Help In a 2016 study, researchers at Northeastern University examined people’s responses to news stories about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The team found that participants who were exposed to stories containing more negative words reported greater levels of distress.
El Pais Emojis, slang, and hashtags: The Jalisco New Generation and Sinaloa Cartels attract young people on TikTok Organized Crime Recruitment Strategies on TikTok,” conducted by the Laboratory of Hatred and Harmony in collaboration with the Civic A.I. Lab at Northeastern University, documents more than 100 active accounts in Mexico and reaffirms what has been reported in recent weeks: how cartels offer fraudulent job opportunities through platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok.
The Week Google and Meta Faced an Antitrust Reckoning John Kwoka, a professor of economics at Northeastern University who recently worked for the FTC, said the Meta and Google cases are similar to Microsoft’s antitrust case in 1998.
Portland Press Herald How to buy concert tickets — and avoid getting scammed Andrew Mall, associate professor of music at Northeastern University, said these pricing structures can also benefit fans who are patient.
A new way to train lawyers to negotiate? ChatGPT. Two years after ChatGPT burst onto the scene, generative AI technology is already changing how law is taught and practiced. Suffolk and law schools at Boston University, Northeastern, and Harvard have all added classes on AI law in the past few years.
Forbes Has Trump Administration Sparked A Constitutional Crisis? This Is Why His Critics Are Worried There’s no “fixed definition” of the term “constitutional crisis,” Northeastern University professor Dan Urman said in 2024, though it’s broadly taken to refer to a clash between the various branches of government.
Puerto Rico faced a massive power outage. Why does this keep happening? For years, Puerto Rico has also faced a debt crisis which left the island unable to afford to maintain the grid, according to Laura Kuhl, of Northeastern University.