New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he has proposed a plan for the city to cut $1 billion from the NYPD’s nearly $6 billion budget. The Democratic mayor revealed details of his proposal during a Monday morning press conference at City Hall. His announcement falls in line with city council leaders’ calls for […]
TULSA, Okla. — Two police officers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, were shot and critically wounded on the city’s east side Monday morning and police arrested the suspected gunman following a more than seven-hour search, authorities said. David Ware, 32, was arrested about 10:45 a.m., but details of how he was found and the circumstances of his […]
President Trump is denying a New York Times report that he was briefed on an alleged Russian effort to pay bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill Western forces — including U.S. troops — in Afghanistan. Citing unnamed officials, the Times report, published Friday, details how U.S. intelligence officials reached the conclusion about the secret payments […]
1. Myth: Medical conditions prevent many people from wearing a mask in public Few medical conditions would prevent someone from wearing a mask, Ashton said. While people with mental health conditions, such as post traumatic stress syndrome or severe claustrophobia might have psychological reasons for not wearing a mask, in general, “If someone is well […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Forty years after a sadistic suburban rapist terrorized California in what investigators later realized were a series of linked assaults and slayings, a 74-year-old former police officer is expected to plead guilty Monday to being the elusive Golden State Killer. The deal will spare Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. any chance of the […]
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration must release immigrant children being detained with their parents in U.S. immigration jails during the coronavirus pandemic. In the order, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee swiped at the administration for detaining families during the pandemic, and said that all children held for more than 20 days […]
The Mississippi state House advanced legislation to change the Magnolia State’s flag, the last in the country to still include the stars and bars of the Confederacy. The chamber advanced the bill by an 84-35 margin, allowing lawmakers in the state House to reach the two-thirds majority needed to suspend the rules to consider the […]
California Democrats in Orange County are demanding that the county’s John Wayne Airport be renamed and all likenesses of Wayne be removed from the airport, over “racist and bigoted statements” made by the American icon decades ago. “The Democratic Party of Orange County condemns John Wayne’s racist and bigoted statements, and calls for John Waynes’ […]
President Trump’s disapproval rating has soared to an all-time high in a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, the latest sign that Americans’ dissatisfaction with his handling of multiple national crises is mounting. Trump garnered 40 percent job approval in the survey, still better than his all-time low of 35 percent recorded in an August 2017 NPR/PBS […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden has opened up a 13-point lead over President Trump in the latest Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) tracking poll released on Friday. The poll shows the presumptive Democratic nominee garnering about 51 percent of the vote in the general election, while Trump trails with 38 percent. Among those who preferred Biden, […]
The House is poised to pass legislation Friday that would make Washington, D.C., the 51st state, the first time such a bill has ever been approved. The vote will be historic, as legislation to make the District a state has not even been brought to the floor since 1993, when it was soundly defeated. Yet […]
Yahoo music editor Lyndsey Parker argued in a column Wednesday that “it might be time to finally replace” “The Star-Spangled Banner” because of its “blatantly racist” connotations. Parker cited historians and activists who pointed to the national anthem composer’s ties to anti-abolitionists and an often-unheard third stanza about slaves. Human-rights activist Kevin Powell told Yahoo […]
