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Ensuring transparency in police shooting investigations, Border Patrol and body cams, a tipping point for tipping
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Nov 13, 2015
Ensuring transparency in police shooting investigations, Border Patrol and body cams, a tipping point for tipping

How to conduct investigations of police shootings in a bright light, putting cams on the Border Patrol, a big restaurant chain nixes tipping

A waiter works in a French brasserie "Le Train Bleu", on April 11, 2013 in Paris. AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR
More restaurants are experimenting with no-tipping policies, but the jury is still out, both for wait staff and for diners.
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How to conduct investigations of police shootings in a bright light, putting cams on the Border Patrol, a big restaurant chain nixes tipping

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A KPCC investigation revealed that officers shot 375 people between 2010 and 2014. No officers have been prosecuted for any of those shootings.
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Joe's Crab Shack will be the first nationwide restaurant to test out a no-tipping policy. But it's not clear how that will go over with diners.
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Taylor Lemmons, a junior at Claremont McKenna College, led a hunger strike calling for Dean Mary Spellman's resignation. She spoke to Take Two.
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Yesterday, a federal appeals panel overturned a previous ruling that California's capital punishment system is unconstitutional.
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Nino Esposito adopted his partner Drew Bosee in 2012 because at the time that was the only way to ensure legal protections. Now, things have changed.
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Yana Gilbuena always wanted to cook Filipino food for lots of people. When Typhoon Haiyan hit, she figured out a way to do just that — and help her country.