A Capitol Police officer died Friday after a vehicle “rammed” into a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol complex. The suspect, who was shot by police, also died. Acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman said that an unidentified male suspect slammed his car into two officers, exited the car with a knife in his hand […]
The Week Obama’s 1st transportation secretary admits to hiding payment from Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire The Justice Department said Wednesday that Ray LaHood, when he was U.S. transportation secretary, accepted a $50,000 check that he “understood at the time” came from Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury, purposefully failed to disclose the “loan” as required on two government ethics […]
Amanda Chase’s candidacy for governor in Virginia this year has confronted the state’s GOP with a dilemma that mirrors the challenge facing the national party: How does it reap the benefits of Trumpism but also reduce the costs? Can it retain voters drawn to the party because of former President Donald Trump and his style […]
A Minneapolis court has been shown new police bodycam footage of George Floyd pleading with officers during his arrest, saying: “I’m not a bad guy”. The video shows police officer Derek Chauvin with his knee on Mr Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, and Mr Floyd begging not to be harmed. Mr Chauvin, 45, […]
The Conversation White mobs rioted in Washington in 1848 to defend slaveholders’ rights after 76 Black enslaved people staged an unsuccessful mass escape on a boat An abolitionist lithograph of the slave trade in Washington, D.C., with the U.S. Capitol in the background. Library of CongressThe summer of 2020 was not the first time America […]
Jair Bolsonaro is facing the biggest crisis since he came to power on 1 January 2019 Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is facing the biggest crisis of his presidency after the heads of the army, navy and air force all quit and the country recorded its highest daily Covid-19 death toll. The unprecedented resignation of the defence […]
Michael Johnsen has been accused of texting a woman he assaulted while parliament was in session An Australian MP under police investigation for rape resigned from New South Wales parliament on Wednesday after it was claimed he exchanged lewd images and messages with his alleged victim from the floor of parliament. The Australian government has […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A woman entered Indonesia’s National Police Headquarters in Jakarta and fired a gun at several officers before being shot dead by police, in the latest militant attack in the world’s most populous Muslim nation, officials said. There were no reports of injuries among the police. Authorities had earlier imposed a counterterrorism […]
National Review The Border Crisis Started in D.C. — and the Ninth Circuit In February, Border Patrol apprehended 96,974 illegal entrants at the Southwest border — a 15-year high for the month. The migrants were very different from those in February 2006, however, as many are now coming to exploit loopholes created years ago in […]
Leave it to Florida Republicans to pass in the House a bill that targets Black people at the same time the police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd is on trial. Clueless — or, downright racist? Given facts and history, most likely, the latter. The instigator of Florida’s so-called “anti-riot” bill is Yale- […]