LA County Sheriff: Gun Shops Are Not 'Essential' And Must Immediately Shut Down Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva noted lines of people buying guns, counter to social distancing rules. The county counsel's office reportedly said the shops aren't covered under the closure. Bobby Allyn
In Many Places, The Coronavirus Is Putting The Criminal Justice System On Hold Inmates are being released early, arrests are down and some court cases are being postponed as members of the criminal justice system grapple with the coronavirus threat. Cheryl Corley
Supreme Court Rules On Insanity Defense, Weighs In On Video Piracy Suit The Supreme Court declared that states can bar criminal defendants from using the so-called insanity defense. It also refused to revive a filmmaker's video piracy lawsuit against North Carolina. Nina Totenberg
Disability Groups File Federal Complaint About COVID-19 Care Rationing Plans People with disabilities are asking the federal government to stop what they say are care-rationing plans from states and hospitals, which could possibly deny them treatment for COVID-19. Joseph Shapiro
Supreme Court Allows States To Virtually Eliminate The Insanity Defense By a 6-to-3 vote, the court essentially allows consideration of mental status only at sentencing. Dissenters accuse the majority of abandoning centuries of Anglo-American law. Nina Totenberg
Life Care Center families still waiting on a response from state watchdog After a public appearance outside the nursing home at the center of the coronavirus outbreak, families say they've had difficulty contacting the state's long-term care ombudsperson. Casey Martin
4 Men Hanged In India For 2012 Gang Rape And Murder That Sparked Outrage More than seven years after a crime that prompted street protests and reforms of sexual assault laws, four men who were convicted of raping and murdering a woman on a bus were put to death. David Welna
Margrethe Vestager: How Can We Ensure Fair Competition Online? When we shop in a store, we're used to having options. But in a digital economy controlled by tech monopolies, choice isn't built in. Margrethe Vestager is on a mission to change that. NPR/TED Staff
Zeynep Tufekci: How Do We Build Systems Of Trust Online? With so much data collected on our online behavior, it's bound to be misused. Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci says to rebuild trust in the internet, we need to entirely restructure how it operates. NPR/TED Staff
Edward Snowden: Why Does Online Privacy Matter? Edward Snowden revealed government programs that collected our private data. Today, he says private corporations have become just as intrusive—but without the restraints placed on government. NPR/TED Staff
