Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on Sunday doubled down on her calls to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of George Floyd’s death, calling it “rotten to the root.” Omar made the comments during a Sunday appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “A new way forward can’t be put in place if we…
The Minneapolis City Council and Minnesota Legislature convened to consider sweeping changes to policing. Political and procedural hurdles are already apparent.After gathering outside of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, people marched by the State Capitol last week in St. Paul.Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York TimesMINNEAPOLIS — The calls for sweeping reforms to policing…
Joseph R. Biden said Thursday the federal government should provide paid leave to any employee who has to miss work because of the coronavirus. Mr. Biden, the presumed Democratic 2020 presidential nominee, said paid leave coverage would also be extended to those who would stay at home to care for a family member with COVID-19.…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…