We go to Mumbai, India, for an update on the state of crisis in the country as COVID-19 cases surge and hospitals run out of oxygen. India recently recorded 315,000 new cases in a single day, the highest daily toll in any country since the start of the pandemic, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has continued to hold large campaign rallies.
Former advisers say he’s done a lot and gotten little credit. But others wonder what good could have come if he’d been more aggressive in pushing the jab.
Authorities in Indianapolis say the mother of Brandon Hole, the former FedEx employee who shot and killed eight people at a company facility last Thursday, called police in 2020 to say her son might commit “suicide by cop,” prompting them to seize his pump-action shotgun. But officials say they did not push for Hole to have a hearing under Indiana’s “red flag” law, which allows police or courts to seize guns from people who show warning signs of violence.
“You still using Venmo?” asked one critic.
It’s a new version of an old proposal from two Democratic lawmakers. But this time, a version could actually pass.
The Democratic voting rights activist didn’t hold back when Sen. John Kennedy asked her to make her case against the restrictive changes.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered the news while standing in a lake basin that would normally be under water.
The money was included in the American Rescue Plan, which Congress passed and Biden signed into law last month.
A Minnesota jury’s conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin on three counts for murdering George Floyd does not go far enough in dismantling police brutality and state-sanctioned violence, says historian and author Khalil Gibran Muhammad. “We know that while the prosecution was performing in such a way to make the case that Derek Chauvin was a rogue actor, the truth is that policing should have been on trial in that case,” Muhammad says.
The police murder of George Floyd added jet fuel to a nationwide push to defund the police. We go to Minneapolis to speak with Kandace Montgomery, co-executive director of Black Visions Collective, about their response to the guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd and an update on the push to divest from Minneapolis police and invest in communities.
A jury in Minneapolis has convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin on three counts for murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds last year. The jury reached its decision after 10 hours of deliberation. Derek Chauvin will be sentenced in two months. He faces up to 40 years in prison for the most serious charge, second-degree murder. He is the first white police officer in Minnesota to ever be convicted of killing a Black man.
The current investigation could intensify concerns by state officials that the public will lose overall confidence in Covid-19 vaccines.
“Did I strike a nerve?” the Florida Democrat, who’s a former police officer, shouted at her Republican colleague.
The speaker of the House of Representatives made the widely criticized comment soon after a jury convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin of murdering Floyd.
Supporters of George Floyd cheered after Chauvin, a former police officer, was found guilty of murder.
Stephen Chase Randolph was arrested in Kentucky. Federal authorities say he told undercover agents it was “f**king fun” to be in the Capitol mob.
Chauvin’s trial has become the latest bellwether on efforts to address police brutality and systemic racism in America.
Authorities in Indianapolis say the mother of Brandon Hole, the former FedEx employee who shot and killed eight people at a company facility last Thursday, called police in 2020 to say her son might commit “suicide by cop,” prompting them to seize his pump-action shotgun. But officials say they did not push for Hole to have a hearing under Indiana’s “red flag” law, which allows police or courts to seize guns from people who show warning signs of violence.
As the Sikh community in Indianapolis and across the United States is in mourning after a gunman killed eight people at a FedEx facility last week, where four of the victims are Sikh, we speak with Simran Jeet Singh, scholar, activist and senior fellow for the Sikh Coalition, which is calling for a full investigation into the possibility of racial or ethnic hatred as a factor in the killings in Indianapolis.
We look at the long history of police killings of Black men during traffic stops in Minnesota with state Representative John Thompson, a community activist who was elected last year and has attended protests demanding justice for George Floyd and other victims of police brutality. His friend Philando Castile was killed by police during a 2016 traffic stop in a suburb of St. Paul.
As jury deliberations are underway in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder and manslaughter for killing George Floyd last May, we go to Minneapolis to discuss final arguments and what is next in the case. We speak with civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, who says the prosecution “started strong and ended strong” by reminding “the jury that they could believe what they had seen with their own eyes.
The current investigation could intensify concerns by state officials that the public will lose overall confidence in Covid-19 vaccines.
The United States has imposed new sanctions on Russia and expelled 10 Russian diplomats after the Biden administration accused Moscow of being involved in major cyberattacks. The Treasury Department claimed Russia interfered in the 2020 election and was behind the SolarWinds hack, which compromised the computer systems of nine U.S. government agencies and scores of private companies. The sanctions target 32 Russian entities and individuals and bar U.S.
The liberal former senator from Minnesota later ran for president.
Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes, the medical examiner said.
“God I love the internet,” one Twitter user said after the prankster called the MyPillow CEO.
Critics say the purported “anti-riot” bill is a direct attack on the First Amendment.
Wealth advisers to the 1% say there’s sheer panic: “Sometimes people don’t realize how much money they’ve accumulated until they’re about to lose it.
The Atlantic is inviting audiences and press to register for In Pursuit of Happiness, a first-of-its-kind virtual event to be held on Thursday, May 20, that will consider the human hold on happiness with some of the foremost scientists, researchers, and philosophers of our time.
Amid nationwide protests over police abuse, we speak with Cariol Horne, the Buffalo police officer whom a New York court has just vindicated for stopping a fellow cop from choking a handcuffed Black man during an arrest. In 2006, Horne, who is Black, saw a white officer repeatedly punching the man in the face before putting him in a chokehold. After Horne heard the man say “I can’t breathe,” she intervened by grabbing the officer’s arm.