The six blocks of occupied Seattle streets now known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or “Chop”, have become a focal point of the nationwide anti-racist protests, eliciting both encouragement and concern. But for this pacific north-west city, it is far from the first time in the radical spotlight. Inside Chaz, Seattle's police-free zone: 'We're…
President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani says he hasn’t yet been told why the president – or Attorney General William Barr – fired a top federal prosecutor in New York.But Giuliani – a 1980s predecessor of fired U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in the Southern District of New York – told an interviewer that “bullsh--” investigations by…
Two teenage boys were shot dead Saturday in South Chicago. The teens, 16 and 17, were in an alley about 5:10 p.m. in the 7900 block of South Luella Avenue when a male suspect approached them and fired shots, Chicago police said. The 17-year-old was shot in the back, chest and hand, police said. The…
President Trump speaks before signing an executive order to tighten the rules for technology companies seeking to bring highly skilled foreign workers to the U.S. in 2017, at Snap-on Tools in Kenosha, Wis. Kiichiro Sato/AP hide caption toggle caption Kiichiro Sato/AP President Trump speaks before signing an executive order to tighten the rules for technology…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Slavery is a disgusting, despicable, horrific, soul-destroying aberration of God’s will for humankind — and, sadly, a terrible and tragic historical truth of American past. But America and all that America offers is still the best deal in the world. Pretending as if the America of 2020 is the same as the America 1700…
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…