SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California sheriff’s deputy was killed and two law enforcement officers wounded Saturday when they were ambushed with gunfire and explosives while pursuing a suspect, authorities said.
A Republican who’s challenging U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., in November decried “silence” on a recent spate of deadly gun violence in Chicago amid the media focus on the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Former President George W. Bush and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, are reportedly not expected to support the reelection of President Trump — two high profile GOP figures who are believed to be avoiding backing the Republican president in November.
Minneapolis’ Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey was booed out of a protest on Saturday after reportedly refusing to back far-left calls to defund the Minneapolis Police Department — a week after riots and looting tore through the city.
After more than a week of George Floyd protests, thousands of New Yorkers gathered Saturday for another day of demonstrations against police brutality and racial equality in the U.S.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared Saturday that New York “crushed” the curve and “did the impossible” as the state begins to re-open after the peak of the coronavirus pandemic appears to have passed — even as he faces criticism over his handling of the virus.
Ongoing rioting, vandalism, arson and looting are compounding problems for many cities and minority communities.
Yesterday, while running some errands, I witnessed a group of young, mostly white protesters peacefully demonstrating at a major intersection during the middle of the day.
Millions of Americans are becoming painfully aware of the old and inefficient technology operating our unemployment benefits system.
COVID-19 has devastated the U.S. economy and 36 million Americans have filed for unemployment since the pandemic began. To prevent permanent economic damage, the country must devise a plan to jump-start the economy that doesn’t mortgage the future to pay for the present.
“Although he moved away from Minnesota almost two years ago, Crockett (a black protester) told his grandfather he needed to go. In response, his grandfather, a retired Marine, quoted Che Guevara. “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” That’s the BBC (very sympathetically) describing the motivation of a Minneapolis looter.
There are serious prudential reasons not to invoke the Insurrection Act, but calls to do so are far from un-American.
The new series by David Simon and Ed Burns is beautifully shot and acted, but its message of looming totalitarianism exposes the showrunners as blinkered ideologues.
The Berkeley professor Hamid Algar has made a career of glorifying the indefensible, the Ayatollah Khomeini.
When does this become bad financial management?
Revisiting the best 20th-century novel on time and grace, Brideshead Revisited.
Vice President Mike Pence’s team is forcefully responding to attacks from a George Soros-funded organization on the vice president’s chief of staff Marc Short, telling Breitbart News that the attacks represent “disgraceful hypocrisy.
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams just made his criticism of Bill de Blasio’s handling of Big Apple protests personal — accusing the mayor of using his biracial family as a political shield.
Protesters in New York City took a knee to recognize George Floyd on Friday as thousands took to the streets across the city.
Drew Brees addressed President Trump on Friday night after the president criticized him for backing down from his anthem stance. In a statement posted on Twitter, Brees told the president that the anthem protests were “not about the flag,” and that “we as a white community” need to listen and learn from the suffering of the “black communities.
Maryland police arrested and charged a man who they say was the bicyclist seen in a viral video confronting a teenage girl who was posting flyers about George Floyd in Bethesda, just outside Washington, D.C.
Some sectors have fared better than others. The general market thrust was greatly assisted by the trillions of dollars of stimulus.
Joe Biden is now the Democratic presidential nominee, after reaching the threshold of 1,991 pledged delegates needed to clinch his party’s nomination.
Should be discounted 100%
The Twitter algorithm has started to show a quirky result.
Here are some of the police reforms politicians have suggested across the country.
Despite solidarity, stores were still looted.
‘a sense of true urgency’
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced this week that the company will donate $37 million to various anti-racism organizations in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. The donations will include $12 million in funding and $25 million in advertising credits.
Violence continues, so do gun sales