On Sunday, a group of Black men riding motorcycles say they pulled into a residential neighborhood in the rural Virginia area. According to the riders, shortly after they paused for a break, a man came outside and pointed an assault rifle at them, suggesting they were trespassing, as reported by local outlet WUSA 9. A video of the incident quickly went viral online, first on YouTube and then on Reddit.
A compromise struck in the 1990s has started to unravel.
Impeached President Donald Trump is pushing health officials to speed up the timeline for a coronavirus vaccine in order to have it ready this fall. Administration sources tell The Washington Post that his “goal is to instill confidence among voters that the virus can be tamed and the economy fully reopened under Trump’s stewardship.” In other words, he wants to look like a president solving a crisis ahead of the election.
Hello there, statehouse action-seekers!
I commend you for being especially bold right now, as action has a way of seeking pretty much everything and everyone out all on its own lately.
So I’ll not tax your energy further—let’s get into it.
As both protests and acts of police violence continue across the country, some states are taking matters into their own hands and are already moving to rein in law enforcement.
Latinos age 25 to 54 have a coronavirus mortality rate at least five times greater than white people.
Donald Trump is no longer shuffling out to do the multiple-hour free association test that passed for a briefing on COVID-19. So he no longer has the cameras of every network focused on him as he explains how everything is “totally under control,” or how “it miraculously goes away,” or when he repeatedly insists that “this is just like flu.
Mary Elizabeth Taylor, one of the highest-ranking Black officials in the administration, said Trump’s actions “cut sharply against my core values.
One date change and one unsuccessful legal challenge later, Donald Trump’s return to campaign rallies is still scheduled for Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. How, though? Why is Trump having a rally at the site of a 1921 race massacre on a date when, despite the rally’s move off of Juneteenth itself, Black Tulsans will still be celebrating independence?
J.C.
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.WILFREDO LEE / APJuneteenth, as my colleague Vann R. Newkirk II put it, celebrates a “belated liberation.” On June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freedom finally reached the isolated state of Texas.
The White House correspondent asked the president, “Why do you keep hiring people that you believe are wackos and liars?
The Sunshine State has “all the makings of the next large epicenter,” according to scientists at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
New research suggests shoveling money at Americans during an economic crisis did the trick.
It was a sexual misfire that first broke me. I’d been coasting along, appreciating the low-stakes ebbs and flows of HBO’s Insecure, when suddenly the problem was right in my face.Well, rather, it was in Issa’s. Midway through Season 2 of the series, which follows a group of black Millennials meandering through adulthood in Los Angeles, Insecure’s protagonist was ready to shake things up.
Today, President Trump tweeted a bewildered question about the latest Supreme Court decision against him: “Do you get the impression the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?”Thousands of people on Twitter promptly tweeted back, “It’s not about you!” Yet the president’s self-involved question touched on a truth.
Justin Walker, who has attacked the Affordable Care Act, will sit for decades on the nation’s second-most-powerful court.
In a bravura interagency pageant of incompetence, the Trump administration managed today to wrest defeat from the jaws of victory. The Supreme Court decided in favor of the “Dreamers” in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, the blockbuster case weighing the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program announced in 2012 by the Obama administration.
Limiting alcohol and added sugars are among the recommendations an influential advisory committee is about to send to the government.
If you’ve been privileged enough to avoid the talk, it’s time.
“We have a long road ahead of us to get those people back to work,” Jerome Powell said earlier this week.
There’s a glass-half-empty explanation, and a glass-half-full one, and honestly neither is great.
In Seattle, the fight to demilitarize and defund the police continues as the King County Labor Council voted to expel the Seattle police union Wednesday, following weeks of protest. Seattle police sparked outrage for responding to massive protests against police brutality by using pepper spray, tear gas and flashbangs on demonstrators and reporters. Activists then formed an autonomous zone in response to the police department’s abandonment of a precinct building.
As police officers in nearly 100 U.S. cities and towns have fired tear gas on protesters in recent weeks and left many with severe injuries, a new Amnesty International report finds the use of tear gas continues to grow each year, and fuels police human rights violations against peaceful protesters on a global scale.
For more than a decade, the racial justice organization Color of Change led a push to cancel the long-running TV show “Cops,” which glorifies police aggression. Now the show has been cancelled, along with A&E’s “Live PD.” “The thing about these shows is that they call themselves reality programming, but they are only from the vision of the police officers,” says Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change.
Prosecutors have charged the Atlanta police officer who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks with felony murder, and accuse Garrett Rolfe of twice shooting Brooks in the back and then kicking him as he lay dying. A second officer, Devin Brosnan, faces four charges, including assault. We talk to Rashad Robinson of Color of Change about the charges in Atlanta and growing calls to defund the police.
She said I owed it to my sister because I treated her badly when she came out as a teenager.
Conversations about race need to happen at school now.
Even a summer surge can’t make up for a season of empty parlors and depressed sales.
Republicans will use any positive sign about the recovery as an excuse to cut off essential aid to the jobless.
How Epic Games created its smash hit and shook up the video game industry.
