Trump Advisers Urge Tougher Russia Policy After Expulsions Some senior Trump administration officials are pressing for more aggressive action toward Russia, hoping to persuade a reluctant President Trump to change his approach after a week of mass diplomatic expulsions that have driven the relationship with Moscow to its lowest point […]
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As new details emerge, Scott Pruitt’s housing arrangements come under scrutiny This post has been updated. Scott Pruitt’s unusual housing arrangement during much of last year — when he paid a lobbyist a modest sum each night for staying in a Capitol Hill condo she co-owned — has generated a […]
Baton Rouge Officer Is Fired in Alton Sterling Case as Police Release New Videos A police officer who fatally shot a black man in Baton Rouge, La., nearly two years ago was fired on Friday, and a fellow officer involved in the episode was suspended for three days. The disciplinary […]
Stephon Clark Was Shot 8 Times Primarily in His Back, Family-Ordered Autopsy Finds Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man who was fatally shot last week by Sacramento police officers, was struck eight times, mostly in his back, according to an independent autopsy released Friday, raising significant questions about the police […]
Hermitage homeowner fatally shoots home invasion suspect, Nashville police say A male suspect in a home invasion is dead after Metro police say a homeowner who was attacked fatally shot him late Wednesday evening in Hermitage. Police identified the suspect as convicted felon Terry Adams, Jr., 27, of Maple Drive […]
Trump Says His Border Wall Is Going Up Right Now. It’s Not. Donald Trump tweeted a series of photos as he hailed the beginning of the construction of his long-promised border wall. “Great briefing this afternoon on the start of our Southern Border WALL,” he gushed on Wednesday. In a […]
Austin Police Chief On Bomber: ‘He Was A Domestic Terrorist’ Interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley called the Austin serial bomber a “domestic terrorist” at a panel hosted by member station KUT on Thursday. Despite previous calls from the community after a string of bombings killed 39-year-old Stephan House and […]
Sacramento hopes to set national example after Stephon Clark shooting The cries for justice booming off the walls of the district attorney’s office here echo in places like Missouri, Minnesota and New York, other states where black men have died at the hands of police. “Say his name!” went the […]
Family’s SUV goes over a cliff, leaving authorities seeking 3 children and clues to what happened In the three days since a passerby happened to notice an SUV upside-down at the bottom of a cliff along the California coast, investigators have determined that five members of the same family were […]
Here’s Hillary Clinton’s blunt response to those who say ‘get off the stage and shut up’ The 2016 election is over and Donald Trump is president, so why is Hillary Clinton still making public appearances and talking to crowds? Or, as Ruth Mandel, director of Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics, […]
