The agency reverses previous claim, days after Park Police did the same.
Extremists have celebrated attacks like these for years. But there’s even more to the story.
When the best thing for you is to walk away.
I don’t feel right about letting this slide.
A look at the use of acquitted and uncharged conduct in federal sentencing.
How a collision between libertarianism, pandemic, and protests brought down the leader of the fitness juggernaut CrossFit.
“Neither party represents the future that we need in this country — both parties remain connected to corporate capitalism,” Angela Davis says of the 2020 election. “We’re going to have to translate some of the passion that has characterized these demonstrations into work within the electoral arena, recognizing that the electoral arena is not the best place for the expression of radical politics.
President Trump will resume holding indoor campaign events starting with a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 19, a day known as Juneteenth, that celebrates African Americans’ liberation from slavery. The rally also falls on the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa race riots, one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history, in which white residents killed hundreds of their African American neighbors.
The destruction and removal of racist monuments in cities across the United States during recent weeks is part of an overdue reckoning with “historical racisms that have brought us to the point where we are today,” Angela Davis says. “Racism should have been immediately confronted in the aftermath of the end of slavery.
The uprising against police brutality and anti-Black racism continues to sweep across the United States and countries around the world, forcing a reckoning in the halls of power and on the streets. The mass protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 have dramatically shifted public opinion on policing and systemic racism, as “defund the police” becomes a rallying cry of the movement.
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Delilah Friedler at Mother Jones writes—What Will Replace the Minneapolis Police? The City’s Native American Community Has Some Ideas: (Full disclosure: I was a member of AIM for 16 years—MB.
The central bank signaled that it would keep interest rates low through 2022.
The pandemic made it impossible for customers to hang out there—but they already weren’t.
The debacle in Georgia on Tuesday was another powerful reminder of just how perilous the November elections may be nationwide as Republicans pull out all the stops to make voting as difficult as possible rather than face the full wrath of Trump-weary voters. For obvious reasons, Black Americans will be especially targeted.
With millions of people suddenly video chatting their doctors, there’s pressure on Washington to make telehealth a permanent option.
What the hell is going on at The New York Times? This question has arisen far too often in the past few years, most recently last week after James Bennet, the paper’s now-former editorial page editor, pitched and then published—without reading it first, allegedly—a fascist op-ed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
The country’s unemployment rate will drop to 9.3 percent by the end of the year, according to the Fed’s forecasts.
Advocates panned the new rules, which were released on the 4th anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
By Mary Fawzy
The Elmahaba Center Podcast was created in 2019 by three Coptic Egyptian women from a working-class neighborhood in Nashville, Tennessee, an area with one of the largest Coptic communities in North America. Coptic people, or “Copts,” are a Christian minority in Egypt, the majority of whom belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church; it’s one of the world’s oldest churches.
The CDC also recommended attendees wear masks if an event includes chanting or singing.
States grappling with budget shortfalls are slowly reopening and lifting stay-at-home orders.
Congress needs to pass $1 trillion in aid to local and state governments slammed by coronavirus. Why $1 trillion? Because, the Economic Policy Institute explains, “Each dollar in state and local spending cuts triggers a multiplier effect as governments end contracts with local businesses and public-sector employees see income drops and, in turn, pull back on their consumption spending.” Without federal assistance, that is projected to translate to 5.
Police shot and killed Rayshard Brooks, 27, after they responded to a call about someone sleeping in a car. Video shows Brooks running away before he was shot.
(Gregory Halpern / Magnum)More than three months have passed since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. Initially, shock and denial gave way to coping with humor: There were a plethora of jokes on social media about introverts thriving and extroverts languishing under these dystopian conditions.
It turns out creating “fun” takes a lot of work.
The CDC has turned down tribal epidemiologists’ requests for data that it’s making freely available to states.
The Fed chief will likely keep up his persistent advice to Congress to spend more to spur a meaningful recovery.
