Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska broke with many of her Republican colleagues Thursday, applauding an op-ed by retired Gen. James Mattis that condemned ...
MINNEAPOLIS — A new Change.org petition is calling for the city of Minneapolis to rename Chicago Avenue in honor of George Floyd. Floyd died near the ...
The challenges of race relations on our continent have been 400 years in the making, and only through achieving long-term, consistent patterns of equal justice ...
Black Lives Matter filed suit against President Donald Trump and his administration Thursday after peaceful protesters were forced out of Lafayette Square.
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner called for Attorney General William Barr's resignation on Wednesday, saying Barr is "unfit for office" after the attorney general ...
The president's photo op at St. John's Episcopal Church was more than that: it was a sign that faith leaders need to reexamine their relationship to politics.
Former chief-of-staff Gen. John Kelly fact-checked President Donald Trump in a statement Thursday about the claim he fired the former Defense Department ...
The late-night violence occurs in the Flatbush neighborhood when police say a man approached an officer assigned to an anti-looting patrol and stabbed him in ...
Authorities are investigating after two police officers were shot and another was stabbed in New York City Wednesday night during a confrontation with a ...
The protests and riots this week concerning the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of law enforcement in Minneapolis and Louisville have ...
Several hundred members of an 82nd Airborne Division infantry battalion are scheduled to begin returning from the Washington, D.C., region to their base at ...
Defense Secretary Mark Esper has ordered home several hundred active-duty troops from the 82nd Airborne Division who were brought to the national capital ...
Defense Secretary Mark Esper is sending hundreds of active duty soldiers who had been on standby in the Washington, D.C., area back to their home base after ...
The nation's highest-ranking U.S. military officer reminded leaders of the armed forces of their oath to uphold the values of the Constitution, an admonition that ...
Hours after more than a thousand active-duty Army units arrived in the Washington, D.C. area to help local law enforcement with protest response efforts, ...
Mass arrests of protesters across the country — many held for hours in vans, cells and other enclosed spaces — are heightening the risk of coronavirus spread, ...
A protester sick with coronavirus attended Columbus demonstrations over George Floyd's death, which is prompting concerns that the highly infectious illness ...
For months, public health experts have urged Americans to take every precaution to stop the spread of Covid-19—stay at home, steer clear of friends and ...
A 22-year-old man was in a half-kneeling position when an officer in a Bay Area city fatally shot him through a police vehicle's windshield, police said ...
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Prosecutors on Wednesday expanded their case against the police who were at the scene of George Floyd\u2019s death, charging three of the officers with ...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz visited the site of George Floyd's death at the hands of Minneapolis police for the first time Wednesday, telling mourners, "I have to ...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor temporarily blocked a judge's order that would require federal prison officials to move hundreds of inmates out of ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an administrative order Thursday that puts a hold on the transfer of 120 inmates out ...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday put on hold a judge's ruling that would require the U.S. government to move up to 837 potentially ...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor put a temporary hold on a judge's decision that said prison officials should begin moving hundreds of prisoners from a ...
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday instructing agencies to waive long-standing environmental laws to speed up federal approval for new ...
Jimmy Kimmel has slammed Donald Trump's claim that he has “done more for black Americans” than “any president in US history”. The late-night host reacted to ...
The Frank Rizzo statue in Philadelphia's Center City was removed overnight, CBS Philly reports. It was vandalized during protests over George Floyd's death.
William Bryan told investigators he heard Travis McMichael use a racial epithet after fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County, a Georgia Bureau of ...
A state investigator testified Thursday that a white man was heard saying a racist slur as he stood over Ahmaud Arbery's body, moments after fatally shooting the ...
With police misconduct in the spotlight, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday will consider whether to revisit its 50-year-old doctrine of "qualified immunity" for ...
In an emotional exchange on the Senate floor, Democratic Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California spoke out Thursday against an ...
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., became emotional on the Senate floor Thursday after Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., held up legislation that would make lynching a federal ...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) explains why he is holding up popular bipartisan legislation to make lynching a federal crime. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Sen.
Dozens of current and former New York Times staffers have publicly denounced the paper for putting its black employees in danger by running an op-ed by ...
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was drowned out by booing at a memorial for George Floyd in Brooklyn on Thursday, as the preacher who introduced him ...
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is now investigating a series of burglaries they believed were carried out under the cover of the George Floyd protests.
Mayor Bill de Blasio was met with hostility on Thursday at a memorial for George Floyd in Brooklyn, the first time he had appeared in person before protesters ...
In the first hours after the 8 p.m. curfew fell on New York City on Wednesday, clashes erupted between the police and protesters, including a melee in Downtown ...
On Tuesday night, as Mayor de Blasio went on CNN to lie to Chris Cuomo that all was “calm” in New York, the exhausted men and women of the NYPD were ...
The Trump administration submitted a brief to the Supreme Court on Wednesday arguing that a taxpayer-funded organization should be able to refuse to work ...
As protests swell throughout the state, many are sparked by a growing desire to remove Confederate memorials from public property, which are protected by a ...
A racist civic sculpture celebrating white supremacy was taken down off its pedestal on Tuesday in Alexandria, Va. The action, dramatic and long overdue, ...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that people in New York City protesting the death of George Floyd should assume they have been exposed ...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., walked back criticisms of NYPD police officers for using force to restrain looters and rioters in recent days, instead of saying the ...
The area around the White House complex, including all of Lafayette Square, will remain closed to the public until June 10 due to ongoing protests, a Secret ...
The People's House continued to be fortified from the public Thursday, as workers erected a perimeter of tall metal fencing around the White House complex.
After another night of peaceful protests following George Floyd's death, workers were seen putting up new fencing barriers around the White House complex.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, clashed with Democratic colleagues on Thursday over his review of ...
Sen. Mike Lee said Thursday that Rod Rosenstein made a “stunning” admission when the former deputy attorney general told senators he was “not sure” that he ...
The Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee gave Chairman Ron Johnson the authority to issues dozens of subpoenas ...
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will find few allies when he testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday regarding the origins ...
Dozens of officers from the Louisville Metro Police Department walked out on the city's Mayor Greg Fischer (D) on Wednesday as he tried to address them.
Dozens of police officers in Louisville, Kentucky walked out on Mayor Greg Fischer in a form of protest, as the Fraternal Order of Police president explained that ...
As the coronavirus death toll in the US tops 107000, questions have intensified over what could have been done to avoid such a catastrophic loss of life. Beyond ...
CDC Director Robert Redfield said Thursday that he's "very concerned" the agency's public health message on the coronavirus isn't "resonating" with the public ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield expressed concern Thursday that the mass protests that have been taking place in the ...
There was a time, not so long ago, when facing a global pandemic threatened the health and lives of millions of Americans, the United States would have had ...
Welcome to Thursday's Overnight Health Care. CDC Director Robert Redfield made a rare appearance in front of a House committee on Thursday. The Trump ...
Kanye West is also giving money to black-owned businesses in his hometown Chicago, Illinois after they were affected by the protesting that is happening for the ...
The social media influencer Jake Paul has been charged with criminal trespassing and unlawful assembly after videos appeared to show him participating in a ...
Paul, 23, was present during the looting and property destruction that occurred on Saturday at Fashion Square mall in Scottsdale, Arizona, police said.
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Washington (CNN) The Senate on Wednesday evening passed by voice vote a House-passed Paycheck Protection Program reform bill, clearing it for President ...
Congress may have just passed new legislation altering rules to make the Paycheck Protection Program loans more flexible, but banks and lenders are asking ...
The name of Manuel Ellis is now being added to the list of black people who died in police custody, after an autopsy report ruled his death in Tacoma, Wash., ...
A black man in Tacoma, Wash., who called out “I can't breathe” while being restrained by police died as a result of oxygen deprivation, according to a medical ...
Video images can help implicate bad cops, like in George Floyd's killing. They can also help exonerate good cops. So why does Tacoma still not have police ...
Former President Barack Obama, in a virtual town hall hosted by his foundation Wednesday, called on demonstrators to channel their anger over George Floyd's ...
Former President Barack Obama urged Americans on Wednesday to use the urgency of the George Floyd protests to spark "real change" in the United States.
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Police brutality protests featured something unusual: Law enforcement in unmarked riot gear, hiding their names and offering no indication of who they work for.
President Donald Trump's message of law and order has manifested itself in Washington, DC, in a way he's threatened to do in states but has not been able to ...
Washington — The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week has drawn thousands of protesters to the streets of the nation's capital, leading President ...
Donald Trump, it turns out, is building a wall – only it's a large black fence around the White House grounds after he sicced the US military on his own citizens.
"I'm really concerned that military has been brought in and the National Guard," said one protester. "Part of me feels like it's turning into a military state."
Before there was Trump, there was Steve King. First elected to Congress in 2002, the Iowa Republican found that his brand of anti-immigrant and frequently ...
The city and county of Los Angeles has canceled the curfews both had been in place over the past several nights amid the protests over George Floyd's death.
The new unrest has been more organized, more peaceful, and largely centered in the city's wealthier areas, as well as downtown, where the government of ...
As protests over police brutality and the death of George Floyd continue across Southern California, Los Angeles has revoked a nighttime curfew. Officials say ...
Members of the National Guard in Hollywood knelt with protesters against police brutality for several minutes Tuesday, prompting applause from onlookers and ...
Police in Asheville, North Carolina were caught on camera Tuesday night dismantling a medical station near an anti-police brutality protest, destroying medical ...
The mayor of Asheville, N.C., said on Facebook that she has asked for an explanation from local police after officers were seen destroying a medical aid station ...
Protests turned violent once again in Asheville overnight. Blasts from what appear to be fireworks sent protesters scrambling. A loud-speaker voice then telling ...
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – The Asheville Police Department's aggressive dismantling of a volunteer medical station 15 minutes after curfew has set off calls for ...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday demanded that President Trump provide a list of the agencies involved in deploying law enforcement officers ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she wants answers from President Trump about the deployment of troops and unidentified law enforcement officers ...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday it was "stunning" and "scary" to see uniformed troops standing on the steps of Lincoln Memorial and wrong for ...
President Donald Trump has canceled an expected trip to his resort in Bedminster, N.J., this weekend amid the ongoing nationwide protests. Instead, Trump will ...
President Trump won't make an expected trip to his resort in Bedminster, N.J., this weekend, as nationwide protests demanding justice for George Floyd are ...
President Trump's reelection efforts will switch back into action next week for the first time since the coronavirus lockdown ground the campaign to a halt in ...
As polls show President Trump significantly trailing his rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., his campaign is spending heavily in states, like Ohio, that it had hoped would ...
President Donald Trump has returned to an old playbook, launching a heavy-handed "law and order" campaign that recalls the message employed with success ...
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