NEW YORK — During three days of unrest in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has sided with the NYPD over protesters — a move many, including longtime supporters, see as cementing the mayor’s transformation from police reformer to police defender. Faced with a series of videotaped incidents of aggressive police behavior toward protesters…
Republicans in a crucial New Jersey swing district have a choice in the July primary: pick a millennial woman with organized labor ties or a middle-aged man with connections to President Donald Trump’s campaign. In choosing a candidate they hope will unseat freshman Democratic Rep. Andy Kim in the 3rd District, Republicans are either going…
Officials from Florida to Missouri are hurriedly rewriting their disaster plans, worried that crowding large groups of evacuees in shelters could spread coronavirus during what’s expected to be a busy hurricane and tornado season. Firefighters in Colorado are working social distancing into their strategy for tackling long-duration wildfires. And New York City is spending $55…
(PETAL, Miss.) — A white Mississippi mayor who caused an outrage with his tweets about the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has apologized but says he won’t resign. Petal Mayor Hal Marx told the Hattiesburg American his remarks on social media about Floyd’s death, which occurred after a white police officer kneeled on his…
Government authorities, including President Trump, suggested Saturday that out-of-state agitators brought violence to this week’s tense protests over George Floyd’s death. However, a few officials have backed off of those early assertions and some of the arrest data suggest that might not be the case. Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died in Minneapolis, Minn., while…
Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, Columbus City Council President Shannon Hardin, and Franklin County, Commissioner Kevin Boyce, were all pepper-sprayed today, during a protest outside the Ohio Statehouse, where people were peacefully demanding an end to police brutality and marching for justice. Beatty, who has represented Ohio’s Third Congressional District since 2013, was at the protest, which…
Janice McGeachin probably holds the highest elected office of any explicit far-right “Patriot” extremist in the United States: Idaho’s lieutenant governor is an unabashed fan of the “Three Percent Militia,” is happy to pose with men flashing the “OK” hand signal, is closely allied with a key figure in the 2014 Bundy Ranch standoff in…
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms appeared on both CNN’s State of the Union and CBS News’ Face the Nation this Sunday morning. In both appearances, the mayor urged Donald Trump to “just stop” talking. The mayor compared Trump’s tweets about mass protests to his comments on Charlottesville, adding that “he speaks and he makes it worse.”…
BERLIN — Forget Make America Great Again. Here comes Make Europe Strong Again. The German government has settled on “Gemeinsam. Europa wieder stark machen" — which translates into English as "Together. Making Europe strong again" — as its slogan for the country’s upcoming presidency of the Council of the EU, which kicks off on July 1….
So much more yet to be written but for now: “We need justice for George Floyd,” Joe Biden says. “We need real police reform, that holds cops to a higher standard that so many of them actually meetâÂ�Â�[and] that holds bad cops accountable.” https://t.co/nSGpGo3FEw pic.twitter.com/MBJC6RS6vt — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 29, 2020 Racism is not…
OAKLAND — Conservatives from Washington to the West Coast have anointed attorney Harmeet Dhillon as their go-to legal warrior in the culture wars of the Covid-19 pandemic. And they don’t even seem to mind that she’s from San Francisco. During the pandemic, Dhillon has emerged as a conservative thorn in the side of Gov. Gavin…
Donald Trump is always on the lookout for an enemy to rally his base against as he postures about his own supposed toughness. Even Trump can’t quite claim a virus is out to get him personally, so he needs other enemies. Today, the World Health Organization took the top spot, as Trump announced “We will…
Forget about coronavirus—Donald Trump is determined to repeat the political rally and ode to his own ego he staged in Washington, D.C., on the Fourth of July last year. That event featured all the military hardware Trump could demand, excluded regular people from the prime locations in favor of tickets for Trump’s allies, and forced the National Park Service to divert $2.5…
Twitter, which this week earned U.S. President Donald Trump’s ire by posting fact-check notices next to some of his tweets, has put up a rule-violation notice on one of his most recent missives. Saying that the president’s comments about protests in Minneapolis glorified violence and were thus against its rules, the social media company has…
The Interior Department’s internal watchdog found that a senior official violated federal laws by using his official email to push the EPA to hire one of his family members. The report from Interior’s Office of Inspector General is the second time in six months that it has found that Assistant Secretary of the Interior for…
While Mitch McConnell’s Senate is on recess this week, the House is in session and is taking up a bill making changes to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to make it more flexible and a better fit for small businesses, including extending the deadline for paying back the loans, allowing a larger percentage to be…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday accused a top Democrat of “hackery” over his public questioning of whether the chief U.S. diplomat had violated regulations governing American officials’ political activity. In a blistering written attack on Bob Menendez, Pompeo also revealed that he’d been cleared by a federal watchdog of any rules violations. It…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday that Hong Kong was no longer sufficiently autonomous from mainland China — an assessment that could threaten the city’s trading relationship with the U.S. and deal a blow to both American and Chinese companies operating there. The news comes following Beijing’s decision late last week to draw…
U.S. coronavirus deaths surged past 100,000 Wednesday, even as President Donald Trump continues urging states across the country to reopen. The U.S. leads the world in reported confirmed coronavirus cases, with more than 1.6 million American cases since January, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker. A day before the U.S. reached the 100,000-death mark,…
An event-planning company that received one of the largest federal contracts to provide produce, meat and dairy to hungry families has yet to deliver the much-needed boxes to food banks across the Southwest. The delay has stoked concerns about the Agriculture Department’s new $3 billion “Farmers to Families Food Box Program” — especially surrounding multimillion-dollar…
