As onlookers, some hopeful some skeptical, await a verdict in the murder trial of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, outside forces in Minnesota are working just as hard as defense attorneys to peel back the liberties of people of color in multiple ways. Police intimidation, legislation, and sheer brutality are just a few.
Chrystia Freeland uses Budget 2021 to reveal Canada’s new emissions target.
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.
It’s lessening my attraction to him.
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.
Chicago Police Officer Eric E. Stillman chased a boy down an alleyway.It was the early morning of March 29. In Minnesota, opening statements in the Derek Chauvin trial were coming in a few hours. Stillman had responded to reports of gunshots in Little Village, a predominantly Latino community on Chicago’s West Side.“Stop right now!” the officer yelled at Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old seventh grader at Gary Elementary School. “Hands. Show me your hands. Drop it. Drop it.
I’m crumbling under the pressure!
When I was a teenager, my hometown football—soccer—team was bought by a local businessman who began his career as a safecracker, became friends with Donald Trump, and ended his days broke and in jail. George Reynolds, who died last week, lived an Englishman’s version of the American dream: He got rich, bought a local institution, then went bankrupt.For a moment, his ownership sparked a kind of giddy hope among the club’s supporters, who were sold promises of the big time.
News of the FDA’s order is the latest roadblock toward J&J’s efforts to ramp up production of its vaccine.
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For the first time in history, humankind has taken flight on another planet. Millions of miles from Earth, on an alien world with a wisp-thin atmosphere, a tiny helicopter rose into the air, hovered for 39 seconds, and then gently touched back down on the surface of Mars.Today’s historic flight is a tremendous feat of engineering and a marvelous display of—as the aircraft is named—ingenuity.
Joe Biden spent the bulk of his adult life running for president or auditioning to be president. Now he is president, and yet the notion that he might walk away from the job while he still has a choice in the matter remains a source of undimmed speculation rare in the postwar era. No one seriously believed that Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, or any president over the past half century would forgo a second term as long as there was the faintest hope of winning one.
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.
We speak with the lawyer for a lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps who is suing two Virginia police officers who pepper-sprayed him, pushed him to the ground and pointed their guns at him during a traffic stop at a gas station last December. Video of the encounter has gone viral and shows Caron Nazario, who is a Black and Latino man, was wearing his Army uniform during the stop. When Nazario says he’s afraid to get out of his car, one officer responds, “You should be.
As protests continue in Chicago and nationwide over the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, we get an update from community activist and independent journalist Mateo Zapata, who says, “People in Chicago are just tired of seeing Black and Brown youth murdered by police.” Released bodycam video showed Adam had his hands up in the air when he was shot by an officer.
Parenting advice on strong toddlers, grandparent introductions, and gift-giving worries.
If the financial and crypto markets are going to be so dumb, count me in.
Just impressively terrible.
Weighing the evidence in a late-pandemic mystery.
Relocation incentives get lots of buzz.
A year of trying everything to survive the pandemic.
The current investigation could intensify concerns by state officials that the public will lose overall confidence in Covid-19 vaccines.
“It’s been a steep learning curve” for Health Secretary Xavier Becerra, said one senior administration official.
Fetal tissue research has been used in the development of numerous vaccines and treatments, including for Parkinson’s, HIV and Covid-19.
Updated at 6:40 p.m. ET on April 17, 2021.In the trailer for Amazon’s new horror series, Them, Diana Ross’s “Home” soundtracks a tender scene: A Black husband and wife in the 1950s survey their new house in wonder and dance in the living room with their two daughters. “When I think of home / I think of a place where there’s love overflowing,” Ross sings. But, as in the song, the tenor of the trailer changes.
The numbers signal the U.S. is well on its way toward a revival, one that’s widely expected to reach record levels of growth later this year.
The president’s team is preparing a $3 trillion spending proposal to power through Congress. They’re betting markets and the economy will cooperate long enough to pass it.
Structural inequities in the U.S. labor market that have affected Black and Hispanic workers’ ability to advance out of low-paying jobs, as well as discrimination in hiring practices, are also likely having an effect.