Paul Butler is the Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University. A former federal prosecutor, he is the author of “Chokehold: Policing Black Men.”.
Senate Republicans were left dumbfounded Thursday by President Trump's latest self-engineered controversy, a suggestion there might not be a peaceful ...
President Donald Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful presidential transition Wednesday comes as Republicans across the country are taking concrete steps ...
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Nevada, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, according to Fox ...
The stakes couldn't be higher at the first presidential candidate debate in Cleveland Tuesday, moderated by Chris Wallace of Fox News. Due to limits on ...
No, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death was not the “October surprise” of this presidential election cycle. It's true that the late justice's passing, removing a liberal vote ...
After the Trump administration made last-minute changes that shortened the 2020 census schedule, a federal judge in California has ordered it to extend ...
WASHINGTON — A federal judge barred the Trump administration on Friday from ending the 2020 census a month early, the latest twist in years of political and ...
A federal judge has stopped the 2020 census from finishing at the end of September and ordered the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident to ...
A bank manager discovered a 9.07-carat diamond at a state park in southwestern Arkansas after thinking the precious gem was a piece of glass. Kevin Kinard of ...
A bank manager discovered a 9.07-carat diamond at a state park in southwestern Arkansas after thinking the precious gem was a piece of glass. Kevin Kinard of ...
Almost 200 days after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by Louisville police who entered her apartment on a no-knock search warrant, former officer Brett ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Hours after a Kentucky grand jury brought no charges against Louisville police for Breonna Taylor's death and protesters took to the ...
Chicago protests after the Breonna Taylor decision, remained peaceful Wednesday night and the Illinois National Guard is on standby. Louisville Officer Brett ...
The results of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron's investigation of Breonna Taylor's March death at the hands of Louisville Metro Police officers will be ...
A Kentucky grand jury did not charge any of the officers involved in Breonna Taylor's case with her shooting death, despite the fact that the medical examiner ...
ObamaCare "is not affordable health care," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told "Special Report" Thursday after President Trump signed a ...
President Donald Trump will sign a series of executive orders aimed at protecting people with preexisting conditions and look for a way to prevent surprise ...
Hillary Clinton suggested that Senate Republicans are rushing to confirm President Trump's pending Supreme Court nominee for one singular purpose: to ...
On Thursday, President Trump is scheduled to give a speech on health care, quite obviously because he has realized what an enormous liability it is for him in ...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death last week was undoubtedly a loss for those who loved and admired her. It also may have dealt a devastating blow to the entire U.S. ...
Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison was indicted on three charges of “wanton endangerment in the first degree” for allegedly shooting blindly into a ...
President Trump exited his news conference Wednesday, telling reporters he had an “emergency” phone call as they continued to heckle him with questions, ...
At a time when Americans have watched too many public officials abdicate their responsibilities to uphold the law, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron ...
SIX MONTHS after Breonna Taylor's death, one of the officers involved will face criminal charges. The city of Louisville also will pay $12 million to Ms. Taylor's ...
House Democrats are preparing a new coronavirus relief package in an effort to shake free negotiations that have been in a stalemate for nearly two months.
Happy Thursday and welcome back to On The Money. I'm Sylvan Lane, and here's your nightly guide to everything affecting your bills, bank account and bottom ...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has directed her committee chairs to assemble a scaled back coronavirus relief package as a basis for potential talks with the White ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reportedly considering a scaled-down stimulus proposal after bipartisan negotiations had stalled. But what would it include?
Herschel Walker praised Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday for denouncing the violence which took place in wake of the Breonna Taylor ...
Election experts and lawyers are bewildered by a press release from the Department of Justice, in which the department said it had begun an inquiry into a ...
Federal authorities working in Pennsylvania say they've been asked to look into the discovery of some mailed ballots described as thrown away, but many ...
The Justice Department sent a letter to a Pennsylvania county on Thursday, ordering it to change its practices after multiple military ballots were found discarded.
"This is where the automobile manufacturers are going," Newsom tells NPR a day after ordering a 2035 ban gasoline cars. "We want to accelerate a trend you're ...
California's state Republican Party is warning that a new move by Gov. Gavin Newsom to ultimately ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035 could ...
California's decision to ban sales of new conventional vehicles starting in 2035 shows how regulators' aggressive emission targets are forcibly reshaping an ...
Twenty months into his term, California's governor faces a pandemic and an environmental crisis. He speaks to Kara Swisher about his plan to save the “state of ...
President Trump unexpectedly announced Thursday that his administration will send $200 discount cards to 33 million older Americans to help them defray the ...
President Donald Trump said that Americans in the Medicare program for the elderly and disabled will be sent $200 discount cards for prescription drugs within ...
The US remains in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic since cases never declined significantly to a good baseline, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's ...
New Yorkers should take special note of one part of the Senate report on Hunter Biden's shady business dealings — because one of his wealthy patrons got ...
Joe Biden has "not spoken accurately" about his knowledge of his son Hunter Biden's involvement in Burisma, Fox News contributor Molly Hemingway said on ...
The Senate Republican report this week on Hunter Biden shows he amassed a network of shady foreign clients who pumped millions of dollars into his bank ...
Let no one forget that high atop the list of reasons Donald Trump doesn't deserve another term is that a duly elected House of Representatives found sufficient ...
We finally got an answer to the question: Where's Hunter Biden? Apparently he's been everywhere, influence-peddling like a nepotistic grifter on a unicycle.
An inmate was put to death by lethal injection in Terre Haute, Ind., on Thursday, the first Black man who has died by execution since the resumption of the ...
Attorneys for a man scheduled for execution on Thursday say his case was never fair and advocates say the federal death penalty always has targeted a ...
There have been no known cases of students or teachers contracting the virus on school property or directly through school sports, state officials said.
New York City schools opened Monday with in-person classes for some students but remote learning for most -- and the first few days have been a bumpy ride ...
When teachers unions declare that they are being “sent to the slaughter” by being told to go to school (and when politicians funded and endorsed by these ...
At least one person was taken to a hospital Thursday night after multiple vehicles allegedly drove through a crowd of Breonna Taylor demonstrators in Los ...
A truck drove through a group of protesters in Hollywood on Thursday night, striking at least one person as it sped through the crowd, according to the police and ...
At least one person was injured after two vehicles plowed through a crowd of demonstrators in Hollywood, where 300 protesters were demanding justice for ...
The crowd of demonstrators were marching down Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood just before 9 p.m. when the black truck accelerated through the crowd, the Los ...
The US Postal *Service* claimed in a court filing Wednesday that it has already taken apart high-speed mail sorting machines and therefore can't put them back ...
A senior executive at the U.S. Postal *Service* delivered a PowerPoint presentation in July that pressed officials across the organization to make the operational ...
On-time delivery across the country dipped substantially in the weeks after DeJoy took office in mid-June, according to internal weekly performance data ...
The U.S. Postal *Service* is investigating how three trays of mail, including absentee ballots, ended up in a ditch line in Wisconsin, a swing state whose voters ...
A police officer in Seattle has been placed on leave after a video appeared to show him walking his bicycle over the head of a person lying in the street, the ...
A Seattle police officer captured on video rolling his bicycle over the head of a protester who was laying in the street is now on administrative leave.
The King County Sheriff's Office will investigate a Seattle police officer after a video from Wednesday night's protest circulated on social media, showing him ...
One Seattle police offer was struck in the head with a metal baseball bat, as others dodged explosives and made 13 arrests during demonstrations that broke out ...
With recent increases of coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County after nearly a month of decline, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti said the next few weeks will be crucial ...
Europe's biggest economies are struggling to bring the coronavirus back under control as hospitalizations climb following a surge in cases to record levels in ...
That's it for today. Here are your top headlines before we sign off: The UK has reported its highest single-day rise in coronavirus cases since the outbreak began.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) has often inflamed critics by downplaying the risks of reopening schools during the coronavirus pandemic, resisting calls for a ...
The governor, who has a spotty track record of wearing face coverings, said he and the first lady "are both fine." He added he is not showing any symptoms.
Democrat Jaime Harrison mocked Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Thursday, after the incumbent said he was "getting killed financially" in the race for ...
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina begged for campaign cash during a Thursday morning TV appearance, saying he's getting "killed" in the money game ...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Thursday morning that Republicans would accept any clear electoral result in November or a Supreme Court decision if the ...
Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt that he's "getting killed financially" in his South Carolina race against Democrat Jamie Harrison, who ...
Donald Trump suggested unnamed US officials are conspiring a “political hit” against him by delaying the release of a Covid-19 vaccine after he accused the ...
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn spent weeks preparing a proposal to set more stringent standards for emergency authorization of a coronavirus vaccine, ...
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday that even an effective Covid-19 vaccine won't replace the need for other public health measures, such as wearing a mask, ...
The public is growing suspicious as President Trump pushes to approve a COVID-19 vaccine before Election Day. To build trust and make sure approval doesn't ...
"FDA relies on public trust and the FDA staff I have worked with and befriended in over a decade of practice understand this keenly," Marc Sanchez said.
Mary Trump, President Donald Trump's niece, filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing the President and his siblings of committing fraud in order to deprive her of her ...
Two months after she claimed in a tell-all book that her family cheated her out of her inheritance, Ms. Trump made similar allegations in a civil suit in Manhattan.
President Trump's niece Mary Trump filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that she was pushed out of the family business and that the president and his siblings ...
China's Ambassador to the United Nations said Thursday that the US has "created enough troubles for the world already" as the two nations continued to spar ...
U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft tore into other members of the Security Council on Thursday for using a COVID-19 meeting to focus on what she called “political ...
The United States, China and Russia fought on Thursday during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the coronavirus pandemic after U.N. chief ...
China on Thursday lashed out at the United States at a high-level UN meeting over its criticism on the coronavirus, with its envoy declaring, "Enough is enough!"
Following a surge of coronavirus cases at the University of Colorado-Boulder, health officials announced Thursday that 18 to 22-year-old individuals were ...
A civil rights lawsuit was filed this week against suspected shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, Facebook and self-styled militia groups the "Kenosha Guard" and ...
Kyle Rittenhouse was a patriot exercising his right to bear arms amid rioting in the streets when he shot to death two Kenosha, Wisconsin, protesters, his lawyers ...
A 17-year-old accused of killing two protesters days after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, faces a hearing to return him to Wisconsin to ...
The social network is accused of helping militia groups conspiring to interfere with civil rights by hosting far-right pages encouraging violence against BLM ...
Kyle Rittenhouse is scheduled for a hearing in Lake County court Friday morning that will focus on whether he will be sent to Wisconsin to face charges alleging ...
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has refused calls to expand mail-in voting in Texas during the coronavirus pandemic, was sued Wednesday by prominent ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott proposed stiffer penalties for violent protesters and rioters, suggesting legislation that stipulates an automatic six months in jail for ...
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas was sued on Wednesday by a group of prominent members of his own party over his one-week early voting extension ...
Hitting a police officer with a water bottle would come with a minimum six-month jail term in the state of Texas under a proposal unveiled Thursday by Gov.
The Texas Republican Party filed a lawsuit against the state governor Wednesday, after Gov. Greg Abbott added six days to the early voting period in light of the ...
Videos and viral images claiming to tell “the truth about” Black victims of police shootings are years old. This week, they are circulating about Breonna Taylor.
Video shared to social media on Wednesday showed Alecia Kitts being tasered and arrested by a police officer at a middle school football game in Logan, Ohio, ...
A video of the confrontation in Logan, Ohio, has gone viral. The woman has been charged with trespassing because she would not leave the game after refusing ...
LOGAN, Ohio (WCMH) — Schools at one district in Hocking County are under lockout protocol Thursday morning after a video posted to Facebook showing a ...
This week it was announced that Mike Bloomberg donated $16 million to restore voting rights to over 30,000 felons in Florida. Florida deserves credit for ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested on Thursday that Florida could create a “bill of rights” to protect college students who face expulsion for attending parties under ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday balked at what he described as “incredibly draconian” university policies in the state, claiming they punish students for ...
Florida governor Ron DeSantis is pushing an anti-protest bill that would shield people who use their cars to kill demonstrators from legal liability, among other ...
Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said on Thursday that he would like to pass a legislative "bill of rights" to help stop colleges and universities from ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to lift restrictions on seating capacity at restaurants, making it the largest state to do so, the Republican said Thursday. Florida ...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to encourage unemployed New Yorkers to work at polls during the Nov. 3 election and has signed an executive order that relieves ...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he will set up his own review board to double check any federally approved COVID-19 vaccine, citing his distrust of President Trump.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said the state will carry out its own review of coronavirus vaccines authorized or approved by the federal ...
A new report by an Australian research group has identified and mapped more than 380 suspected detention facilities in China's western Xinjiang region.
China has expanded its network of detention centres for its Uighur minority despite insisting the "re-education" system was being scaled back, a new report says.
