The DOT and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have released a study on motor vehicle crashes. The following is an excerpt from the introduction. In 2010, there were 32,999 people killed, 3.9 million were injured, and 24 million vehicles were damaged in motor vehicle crashes in the United States. The economic costs of these

Donald J. Trump has reversed course and agreed on Friday to pay $25 million to settle a series of lawsuits stemming from his defunct for-profit education venture, Trump University, finally putting to rest fraud allegations by former students, which have dogged him for years and hampered his presidential campaign. The settlement was announced by the

By: Drake Baer, Source: Science of Us, Originally Published: November 16, 2016 Just a few weeks ago in Tampa, Florida, 22-year-old Pablo Cortes III was speeding down a highway in his Volkswagen Golf when he lost control, jumped the median, and slammed head-on into a minivan, which caught fire, twisted, and struck two other vehicles.

By: WTVC & AP, Source: News Channel 9, ABC, Originally Published: November 1, 2016 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama Governor Robert Bentley declared a State of Emergency Tuesday afternoon following Monday’s deadly Colonial Pipeline explosion. Bentley’s website says “The State of Emergency will facilitate the granting of a waiver from the U.S. Department of Transportation –

By: Campbell Robertson, Source: The New York Times, Originally Published: 9.30.16 Nine months after instructing Alabama’s probate judges to defy federal court orders on same-sex marriage, Roy S. Moore, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, was suspended on Friday for the remainder of his term for violating the state’s canon of judicial ethics.

The U.S. has relied on flawed forensic-evidence techniques for decades, falsely convicting many. The White House will release a report Tuesday that will fundamentally change the way many criminal trials are conducted. The new study from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) examines the scientific validity of forensic-evidence techniques—DNA, fingerprint, bitemark,