The thugs that killed Daniel Prude in Rochester will not be prosecuted because the grand jury voted not to indict.

I am sure that Letitia James tried her best to get an indictment. The refusal is therefore quite unusual. It might perhaps represent racism, or an insistence to "support your local police."

One way or another, we need to stop thugs from holding people down with their knees.

US citizens: call on Congress to resist Nestlé's plan to sell some water sources to private equity.

Citizens of Massachusetts: call on the Massachusetts legislature to pass a bill to regulate face recognition, and a bill to end the practice of suspending drivers' licenses because of debts.

Many people are too poor to pay their debts, and losing their drivers' licenses means they lose their jobs and get even further in debt. The fact that now half of all Americans are in poverty or close to it means that this harmful feedback loop does even more harm.

Iran's women's skiing team has gone to the world championship without its coach — her husband vetoed her travel.

The Republican governor of Texas says Republicans will somehow spare Texans from paying the thousands of dollars that they have been charged for electricity during the storm.

That's a step in the right direction, but it would have been better for Texans to have voted for Democrats and avoided both the gouging and the unreliability of the power grid.