The president’s move deepened a crisis over the independence of law enforcement and the president’s purge of officials he views as disloyal.Geoffrey S. Berman, who refused to step down as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, walks toward his offices in Lower Manhattan on Saturday. Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York TimesJune 20,…
CLOSE The Justice Dept. announced the resignation of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of N.Y. Geoffrey Berman. But he says he has no plans of resigning. Video ElephantAttorney General William Barr on Saturday informed Manhattan's chief federal prosecutor Geoffrey Berman that President Donald Trump was removing him from office after the prosecutor refused to…
Continuing Coverage: Atlanta Protests APD spokesman John Chaffee said the investigation into the May 30 incident involving students Messiah Young and Taniyah Pilgrim remains open and the agency would have no further comment. Former officers Ivory Streeter and Mark Gardner were fired the day after their confrontation with the students and on Monday filed a lawsuit…
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., forcefully pushed back on criticisms that he was being used as a "token" in Republicans' push for policing reform after George Floyd's death."Not surprising the last 24 hours have seen a lot of 'token' 'boy' or 'you’re being used' in my mentions," Scott tweeted on Wednesday. "Let me get this straight...you DON’T want the person…
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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…