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amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Six former Rankin County, Mississippi, law enforcement officers are set to be sentenced beginning Tuesday morning after pleading guilty to federal charges stemming from the racially motivated torture of two Black men during an incident that took place on Jan. 24, 2023. Former Rankin County sheriff’s (RCSO) deputies Brett McAlpin, […]
www.fuchieh.com/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The New York City Department of Education is investigating claims that hundreds of new books — many that were about people of color and LGBTQ identities — were thrown in the trash at a Staten Island school after the NYC news outlet The Gothamist first reported the discovery. The outlet […]
Phil Roeder/ Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congress is beginning the week without a deal to avert a partial government shutdown by Friday’s deadline — as funding for the Department of Homeland Security trips up negotiations. The Friday deadline is for the remaining six of 12 spending bills after Congress passed the first six earlier this […]
Phil Roeder/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Devon Archer, a key witness in House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, will not attend a high-profile open hearing this week, citing what his attorney characterized as a “patently unreasonable” amount of time to prepare. Matthew Schwartz, an attorney for Archer — a former Hunter Biden business associate, […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ahead of President Joe Biden making campaign stops on Tuesday in Arizona and Nevada, advisers are laying out why they still place him in a better position than former President Donald Trump to win those two key battlegrounds, despite Biden’s mediocre polling in the early lead-up to the […]
joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro must report to prison on Tuesday as scheduled, after the Supreme Court on Monday denied the stay of his sentence. Chief Justice John Roberts, in a short opinion, wrote that he saw “no reason to disagree” with lower courts, which also rejected […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s criminal prosecution in New York has denied Trump’s attempts to exclude the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape and testimony from key witnesses from his upcoming criminal trial. The defense argued Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, should not be allowed to testify because he […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump and some of his co-defendants in the Fulton County election interference case on Monday kicked off the process to appeal the judge’s disqualification ruling that ultimately kept District Attorney Fani Willis on the case, asking the court in a new motion to grant a certificate of […]
Caroline Purser/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Israel’s expected military invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza was the focus of President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call Monday — their first in more than a month — with the White House saying Biden is still not satisfied that Israel will do enough to prevent […]
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call (WASHINGTON) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a United States ban on the ongoing use of chrysotile asbestos — a carcinogen that the agency estimates is linked to more than 40,000 U.S. deaths each year. The announcement comes as part of President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative, which is […]
