Video shows former NFL player’s violent arrest after he said police mistook a phone for a gun A black man said he was arrested in Georgia for possessing a firearm — which he said, in reality, was his cellphone — and that police officers slammed him to the ground and […]
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Chancellor Richard Carranza stands by his tweet of viral video in Upper West Side integration fight Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza on Friday stood by his decision to tweet a viral video with a harsh headline about Upper West Side parents angrily protesting a proposal to integrate middle schools, reaffirming that […]
Texas’ Voter ID Law Does Not Discriminate and Can Stand, Appeals Panel Rules A federal appeals court upheld Texas’ voter identification law on Friday, saying that it does not discriminate against black and Hispanic voters. The decision by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the […]
NYT: Russian lawyer at Trump Tower meeting had closer ties to Kremlin than previously disclosed Newly surfaced emails indicate that Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign associates in 2016, once worked with Russia’s chief legal office in an effort to thwart the Justice Department, The New […]
Hush money deals business as usual for Stormy Daniels’ ex-attorney California attorney Keith M. Davidson drafted a confidential contract in 2012 for a client trying to get cash for a secretly recorded video of pro wrestler Hulk Hogan having sex with a friend’s wife. The ensuing deal resulted in an […]
Firing of House Chaplain Causes Uproar on Capitol Hill Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s abrupt decision to dismiss the House chaplain triggered an uproar on Friday over religion, pitting Republican against Republican and offering Democrats a political opportunity in a year already moving their way. Mr. Ryan moved quietly two weeks […]
Teachers in Arizona and Colorado Walk Out Over Education Funding An analysis by The Arizona Republic showed that more than 840,000 of the state’s 1.1 million public school students could be affected by the school closings. Teachers and their supporters began gathering on Thursday morning around Chase Field, a baseball […]
American Airlines sued after passenger who suffered midflight emergency dies The family of a South Carolina woman who died after suffering a medical emergency midflight is now suing American Airlines alleging wrongful death. Brittany Oswell, 25, suffered an embolism while flying from Honolulu, Hawaii to Dallas, Texas two years ago. […]
House Chaplain Was Asked to Resign. He Still Doesn’t Know Why. The chaplain of the House said on Thursday that he was blindsided when Speaker Paul D. Ryan asked him to resign two weeks ago, a request that he complied with but was never given a reason for. The sudden […]
Inside the dramatic collapse of Ronny Jackson’s bid to lead the VA Dr. Ronny Jackson exuded confidence when he emerged from a Capitol Hill office Tuesday evening, telling reporters that he looked forward to answering tough questions from lawmakers about his past. By Thursday morning, Jackson was back in the […]
