Chauvin is one of four officers facing charges following the death of Floyd, which gained national attention last spring when cellphone footage showed Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for just shy of 9 minutes. An appeals court MORE
After more than 24 hours of debate, GOP games, obstruction, and nonsense, “the evenly divided Senate voted 50-49 to approve the measure. Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska was absent because he was in Alaska MORE
It took a direct call from President Biden and significant concessions to get the senator on board. The Senate was more than two hours into a vote on Friday afternoon as Jon Tester and several MORE
The White House is expected to announce President Joe Biden’s first sanctions against Russia over the Russian government’s poisoning and detention of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, a State Department official confirmed to ABC News Monday. The Biden MORE
Anna Ruch met Governor Andrew Cuomo at a crowded wedding reception in 2019. After he had toasted the newlyweds, she wanted to thank him for his kind words about her friends. Mr. Cuomo put his MORE
The Supreme Court handed Trump a significant defeat on Monday morning by declining to halt investigators from getting their hands on his tax returns. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance can now require Trump’s accountants to MORE
A United Airlines flight bound for Honolulu was forced to return to Denver International Airport Saturday after suffering an engine issue, a spokesperson for the airport told CNN. The flight returned safely to the airport MORE
President Biden used his first public encounter with America’s European allies to describe a new struggle between the West and the forces of autocracy, declaring that “America is back” while acknowledging that the past four MORE
Just moments after Trump’s acquittal in his impeachment trial, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) responded to the Senate trial verdict by circulating a petition to its nearly one million members calling on Biden’s nominee MORE
Former President Trump declared victory on Saturday after Senate Republicans voted to acquit him for a second time, saying that his political movement “has only just begun” and that he would have more to share in the MORE
Two FBI agents were shot and killed and another three were wounded while serving a warrant at a Sunrise, Florida, home early on Tuesday morning. The shooting happened at around 6 a.m. Sunrise police said MORE
President Donald Trump has decided to pardon his former chief strategist Steve Bannon, in a last-minute decision made only hours before he is scheduled to depart the White House for a final time. Officials cautioned CNN that Trump’s decision was MORE
The FBI privately warned law enforcement agencies Monday that far-right extremists have discussed posing as National Guard members in Washington and others have reviewed maps of vulnerable spots in the city — signs of potential MORE
The video was shot by New Yorker war correspondent Luke Mogelson, who was covering the “Stop the Steal” rally. The video is unlike all the others, in that you really see how determined the rioters were MORE
More than 3,000 law school alumni and students have signed a petition calling for the disbarment of Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) over what it says were their “efforts to undermine the peaceful transition MORE
A Sriwijaya Air flight with 62 aboard is missing after losing contact with Indonesia’s aviation authorities shortly after takeoff from Jakarta. Flight SJ182, a 26-year-old Boeing Co. 737-500, was scheduled to depart from the nation’s capital to Pontianak on MORE
Twitter permanently suspended President Donald Trump’s account on Friday, citing “the risk of further incitement of violence.” The president’s account was initially banned for 12 hours on Jan. 6 due to “severe violations of our MORE
Nashville authorities believe an explosion that occurred in downtown Nashville early Christmas morning was an “intentional act” and sparked by a vehicle. MORE
There are 26 new pardons in the pipeline on Wednesday evening, including Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager who lied to prosecutors after agreeing to cooperate with the Mueller investigation, Roger Stone who never agreed MORE
Federal prosecutors have discussed making a legal request for Rudy Giuliani‘s electronic communications, two sources familiar with the probe tell NBC News, a sign that the investigation into President Donald Trump’s personal attorney remains active and MORE
Attorney General William Barr resigned on Monday, ending a tenure in which the President Donald Trump loyalist carried the administration’s “law and order” message but ultimately dealt the most credible blow to Trump’s unfounded claims that the MORE
The Supreme Court acted with unusual speed to reject a bid from Texas’ attorney general— supported by President Trump — to block the ballots of millions of voters in battleground states that went in favor of President-elect Joe MORE
After pleading guilty twice to lying to investigators about his conversations with Russia’s ambassador, Trump just granted a full pardon to convicted criminal General Michael Flynn. NYT:
***An update to a recent News Views article: The U.S. government has concluded that Iran was behind a series of threatening emails arriving this week in the inboxes of Democratic voters, according to two U.S. MORE
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively allowed the government to stop the census count immediately, blocking a lower court order that would have required the Trump administration to continue gathering census information in the field until the end MORE