Colorado Governor Jared Polis has ordered a new investigation into the 2019 police killing of 23-year-old Elijah McClain in Aurora, which is facing renewed scrutiny and outrage amid the nationwide uprising against police brutality. McClain was walking home from a store last August when someone called 911 to report a “suspicious person.
As coronavirus cases top 10 million worldwide and spikes are being reported in 36 states, Vice President Mike Pence has touted “truly remarkable progress” on the pandemic. “This has just been a massive case of denial, of idiotic government policy, of the lack of any strategic planning, any really specific strategic goal,” Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett says of the response to the pandemic. “We’re in very, very dire straits right now.
Coping with a pandemic is one of the most complex challenges a society can face. To minimize death and damage, leaders and citizens must orchestrate a huge array of different resources and tools. Scientists must explore the most advanced frontiers of research while citizens attend to the least glamorous tasks of personal hygiene.
Parenting advice on quarantine gifts, nursing woes, and nibling indifference.
And it’s attracting a bunch of enterprising evangelists who have traveled there from outside the state.
A ballot measure on Tuesday, if successful, could also set back Trump’s efforts to block grant Medicaid.
COVID 19 is spiking, immigration is impossible, and a German fintech company is collapsing.
Republicans claim Americans won’t go back to work as long as they’re getting government checks. It’s immoral and dishonest.
No conga lines, no buffets, but don’t worry: The swim-up bar is open.
Domino’s has been called a tech company that also sells pizza. But people are relying on its deliveries now more than ever.
The president is moving forward with the legal attack, even as some Republicans worry it will hurt the party’s electoral prospects.
Hi-Phi Nation podcast looks at prison abolitionism, free will, desert, moral responsibility, and whether we should abolish all forms of state punishment.
Now she’s set up family counseling with me and my two adult siblings. I don’t want to go.
The concept of “risk spending” suggests a way forward. But it would require tough communal choices.
Corporate parades and expensive parties have been cancelled, but queer grassroots movements for social justice are very much on.
The acting chair of the CEA will leave Trump without another senior economist as discussions start about a new economic aid package.
“We have a long road ahead of us to get those people back to work,” Jerome Powell said earlier this week.
“Significant uncertainty remains about the timing and strength of the recovery,” Powell said.
He said that “almost all businesses” understand the $600 additional benefit is “a disincentive.
The central bank signaled that it would keep interest rates low through 2022.
Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $2.1 billion to a group of women who developed ovarian cancer after using talcum powder contaminated with asbestos. Johnson & Johnson heavily marketed the powder to African American women despite warnings that the products could cause cancer. Six of the plaintiffs in the Johnson & Johnson case died before the trial started. Five more of the women have died since 2018. We get response from M.
The controversy over police use of facial recognition technology has accelerated after a Black man in Michigan revealed he was wrongfully arrested because of the technology. Detroit police handcuffed Robert Williams in front of his wife and daughters after facial recognition software falsely identified him as a suspect in a robbery. Researchers say facial recognition software is up to 100 times more likely to misidentify people of color than white people.
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major victory Thursday when it ruled the government can fast-track deportations of asylum seekers without first allowing them to fight for their cases in front of a judge. The ACLU’s Lee Gelernt argued the case in court on behalf of Tamil asylum seeker Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam. “It’s a very serious decision and will adversely affect many, many asylum seekers,” says Gelernt.
The Poor People’s Campaign offered a counterpoint to President Trump’s sparsely attended Tulsa campaign rally with a mass digital gathering that unveiled a policy platform to spur “transformative action” on five key issues of systemic racism, systemic poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and the threat of religious nationalism. “We have to repair and revive,” says Rev. Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign.
In a new Sunday evening story, The Washington Post cites unidentified sources to confirm that the Russian program offering “bounties” to Taliban militants for killing U.S. forces in Afghanistan is “believed to have resulted in the deaths of several U.S. service members.” It was previously unclear as to whether the Russian program had been successful; the Post’s sources indicate that it was.
Every leading candidate in a race targeted by the Democratic Party is at least open to reforming the Senate’s 60-vote threshold.
Georgia voting rights advocates are pushing back on the state legislature’s attempt to limit absentee ballot use. Citing “capacity issues,” Republican legislators want to prevent the secretary of state and county boards of election from proactively mailing out absentee ballot applications, as was done ahead of the June 9 primary.
California Democrats are pushing for one of the state’s airports to change its name and slash a statue honoring a well-documented racist and homophobe known professionally as John Wayne, actor and namesake of Orange County’s John Wayne Airport.
The state House and Senate voted to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state’s flag — the last in the country to include the hate symbol.
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