TOKYO —On the second anniversary of President Trump’s summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore, North Korea’s foreign minister said hope had given way to despair and relations between the two countries had descended into MORE
Houston Chronicle: Congress enlisted oil companies to help develop an underground carbon storage system to aid in the fight against climate change. Oil producers for decades had pumped carbon dioxide underground to increase output, steadily MORE
More than a thousand Department of Justice (DOJ) alumni called on the department’s internal watchdog to investigate Attorney General William Barr’s role in the aggressive dispersal last week of protesters gathered near the White House. Some MORE
A former judge selected to advise on a path forward in the criminal case against Michael Flynn is accusing the Justice Department of distorting the justice system to protect an ally of President Donald Trump MORE
A Minneapolis city councillor says her city’s police force is beyond repair, and defunding and dismantling it entirely is the only way to provide an appropriate shift toward improving public safety in the community. Alondra Cano MORE
NJ Corrections Officer Mocks George Floyd’s Death as Protesters Pass https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/nj-trump-supporter-mocks-george-floyds-death-as-protesters-passed/2425224/ The mayor and police chief of the South Jersey town called it “revolting” A white man seen mocking George Floyd’s death as Black Lives MORE
Conservative and mainstream religious leaders are joining with Black churches, progressive Catholics and Protestants, Jewish synagogues and other faith groups in calling for police reforms and efforts to dismantle racism. “We’re seeing it at the MORE
The doctrine is called “qualified immunity.” Developed in recent decades by the Supreme Court, the doctrine, as applied to police, initially asked two questions: First, did police use excessive force, and if they did, should MORE
GUILFORD, Maine – President Donald Trump traveled to Maine Friday to tour a facility that makes medical swabs used for coronavirus testing, but the swabs manufactured in the background during his visit will ultimately be thrown in the trash, MORE
As some of the wealthiest health care companies in the United States received billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to help them cope with lost revenue from the pandemic, they laid off or cut the MORE
Administrators at Wichita State University and WSU Tech announced their decision just hours after they had said the US president’s daughter would be speaking to WSU Tech graduates. Administrators of both universities, which are affiliated, MORE
All 57 members of the Buffalo Police Department’s Emergency Response Team have resigned from their posts in the special unit. The mass resignation is meant as a show of support for two fellow officers who MORE
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – A Raleigh teen is finding a creative way to share light and love in the midst of such darkness. Alex Robinson said the unrest in North Carolina and across the country MORE
Protesters and the American Civil Liberties Union sued President Donald Trump, Attorney General William Barr and other top officials on Thursday, alleging their civil rights were violated when police used violent crowd control measures to disperse hundreds of MORE
Federal prosecutors in Las Vegas have charged three men alleged to be members of the far-right extremist “Boogaloo” movement with several state and federal violations of conspiracy to cause destruction during protests in Las Vegas, MORE
New York (CNN Business)The US Securities and Exchange Commission has paid out its largest-ever whistleblower award — nearly $50 million. The whistleblower tipped off the agency to a currency manipulation scheme at a massive bank, resulting in MORE
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted on Thursday to grant Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) broad subpoena authority as part of a probe stemming from the Obama administration. In a party-line vote, Republicans MORE
Shawn Dromgoole is a 29-year-old black man who has lived in the same Nashville neighborhood his entire life. As a young man, Dromgoole watched from his window as the neighborhood gradually gentrified before his eyes: MORE
After years of racist comments that lost him the support of many Republican Party leaders, conservative Iowa Rep. Steve King has lost his bid for reelection to a primary challenge by GOP state Sen. Randy MORE
After: === Before: A day after unrest turned protests violent in downtown Birmingham, most of a Confederate monument was removed piece by piece Monday night. Removal of the monument in Birmingham’s Linn Park was a MORE
The killing of George Floyd is probably the only time several friends and acquaintances have written me about a racist killing. […] One message especially stuck out. “Are you actually happy not to live in MORE
Sen. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, on Monday pushed for the use of military force against Black Lives Matter demonstrators, some of whom have engaged in looting and other criminal acts. “If local politicians will MORE
It wasn’t just the individual actions of state Superior Court Judge John Russo Jr. that got him removed from the bench. It was the pattern those actions demonstrated, the New Jersey Supreme Court found. But MORE
Over a three-day period, organizations that track press violence documented about two dozen acts of violence, including an incident on Saturday night in Minneapolis during which Reuters journalist Julio-Cesar Chavez and Reuters security adviser Rodney MORE
Few things are more unexpected than a genuinely inspirational memoir by a freshman member of Congress. If you’re looking for the perfect antidote to the perpetual tweetstorm of insanity and hatred from Donald Trump, try this beautiful MORE