Hong Kong Police Guard of Honour raises a Chinese national flag and a Hong Kong flag during a flag raising ceremony at the Golden Bauhinia Square on June 15, 2020 in Hong Kong, China.Anthony Kwan | Getty ImagesThe top decision-making body in China's parliament has passed the contentious national security law for Hong Kong, according…
(CNN)Beijing has reportedly passed a wide-reaching national security law for Hong Kong, which many fear could be used to override existing legal processes and further erode the city's civil and polit…
But Democrats bristled at the GOP’s rationale for opposition. “That shouldn’t be how we have enfranchisement in our country — what’s the nature of our vote?” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters. “They talk about the ‘toos’ — too Black, too Democrat, whatever.” “The fact is people in the District of Columbia pay taxes, fight…
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a sweeping Democratic police reform bill, sending the measure to the Senate despite opposition from President Dona...
Image copyright EPA Image caption US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (centre) welcomed the bill The US House of Representatives has passed a sweeping police reform bill that currently has little prospect of becoming law amid partisan gridlock.The Democratic-controlled chamber voted 236-181 for the measure mainly along party lines on Thursday night.The legislation is…
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…