Jacey Fortin

New York

Correspondent at The New York Times

Journalist, NYTimes. In NYC.

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Articles

Graduate Students Push Back Against Science Funding Cuts

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jacey Fortin

As a scientist, Erin Morrow’s focus is cerebral — literally. She studies the brain, investigating the interplay of memory and stress. But when Ms. Morrow, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, sat down to compose a letter in defense of science, she decided to write from the heart. Hers is attached to a pacemaker, implanted a few years ago to manage an atrioventricular block that made her pulse stutter.
Ancient Trees, Dwindling in the Wild, Thrive on Sacred Ground

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jacey Fortin

TrilobiteBuddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old. A Phoebe zhennan tree, about 400 years old, in the Wen-Qi Pavilion, a Taoist temple, in Guizhou, China. Credit... Li Huang The Putuo hornbeam, a hardy tree that thrives in the damp air by the East China Sea, could be easily overlooked by visitors to the Huiji Temple on an island in the Zhejiang Province.
Justice Department to end oversight of local police accused of abuses

1 month ago | seattletimes.com | Shaila Dewan |Devlin Barrett |Ernesto Londono |Jacey Fortin

The Trump administration Wednesday backed away from federal efforts to investigate or oversee nearly two dozen police departments accused of civil rights violations, abandoning an effort designed to reform local law enforcement agencies in the wake of high-profile police killings.
Trump administration pulls back from local police oversight across US

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Jacey Fortin |Devlin Barrett

The Trump administration moved Wednesday to scrap proposed agreements for federal oversight of police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville as part of a broader abandonment of efforts by previous administrations to overhaul local law enforcement across the United States.
Trump Administration Pulls Back From Local Police Oversight Across U.S.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jacey Fortin |Devlin Barrett |Ernesto Londono

The Justice Department said that it would abandon efforts to force police reforms in more than a half dozen cities with a history of civil rights violations. The Trump administration moved on Wednesday to scrap proposed agreements for federal oversight of police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, as part of a broader abandonment of efforts by previous administrations to overhaul local law enforcement across the United States.
36 Deaths in Police Custody Should Have Been Called Homicides, Report Finds

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jacey Fortin

An audit of deaths in Maryland found that in cases of people who died after being restrained by the police, medical examiners often classified the deaths as natural or accidental. Medical examiners in Maryland miscategorized dozens of deaths that happened in police custody over the past two decades, according to a report released by state officials on Thursday. At least 36 of those deaths should have been called homicides, the report said.
Los hermanos Menendez reciben una nueva sentencia que allana su camino hacia la libertad

1 month ago | infobae.com | Tim Arango |Matt Stevens |Jacey Fortin

Murders, Attempted Murders and HomicidesMenendez, ErikMenendez, LyleMenendez, JoseBeverly Hills (Calif)La pena de cadena perpetua con libertad condicional podría conducir a la excarcelación de Lyle y Erik Menendez, más de tres décadas después de ir a prisión por matar a sus padres.
Lyle y Eric Menendez reciben otra sentencia y están más cerca de la libertad

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Tim Arango |Matt Stevens |Jacey Fortin

La pena de cadena perpetua con libertad condicional podría conducir a la excarcelación de Lyle y Erik Menendez, más de tres décadas después de ir a prisión por matar a sus padres. Video Back transcriptMembers of Menendez Brothers' Family Celebrate ResentencingThe Menendez brothers became eligible for parole on Tuesday, after spending decades in prison for the murder of their parents.
Menendez Brothers Resentenced to Life With Parole, Paving Way for Freedom

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Tim Arango |Matt Stevens |Jacey Fortin

Lyle and Erik Menendez were resentenced on Tuesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole, setting the stage for their possible release after more than three decades behind bars for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion. The decision, by Judge Michael V. Jesic of Los Angeles Superior Court, came after a day of testimony by family members, who said the brothers had turned their lives around inside prison through education and self-help groups.
Pope’s eldest brother in Florida says ‘he’ll do a bang-up job’

1 month ago | sun-sentinel.com | Charles Ballaro |Halina Bennet |Jacey Fortin

As a boy growing up in a suburb of Chicago, the future Pope Leo XIV did not pretend to be a cowboy or a bank robber. Instead, he liked to play priest, according to his eldest brother, Louis Prevost. “We teased him a lot about, ‘Na na na, you’re gonna be the pope,’” Prevost, 73, recalled in an interview Friday at his home in Port Charlotte, Florida. But it came as a bit of a shock when Robert Francis Prevost — Rob to his family — was in fact elected to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.