The Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments Tuesday in companion cases involving illegal gun possession and the fallout from a recent SCOTUS precedent. The cases are Greer v. United States (on appeal from the Eleventh Circuit) and United States v. Gary (on appeal from the Fourth Circuit).
#ALERT: Fire personnel requesting backup as a large fire consumes a Minneapolis church#Minneapolis l #MN
A large fire continues to burn at the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church. No one is believed to be inside.
Police have requested an arson investigator to the scene. pic.twitter.com/IDWnszIgBb
A @MNNationalGuard and @MinneapolisPD neighborhood security team was fired upon early Sunday morning in a drive-by shooting near Penn Avenue and Broadway in Minneapolis.
Some of the reporting in this is astonishing, and one has to wonder if Trump's plan to install Patel as CIA dep director/acting director in December was linked to the advice he was getting on how to stage a coup https://t.co/amniMFeAvh
What I do know is that Yang’s big ideas are demonstrably wrong. Shouldn’t that be cause for concern? Yang’s claim to fame is his argument that we’re facing social and economic crises because rapid automation is destroying good jobs and that the solution is universal basic income, a monthly check of $1,000 to every American adult. Many people find that argument persuasive, and one can imagine a world in which both Yang’s diagnosis and his prescription would be right. But that’s not the world we’re living in now, and there’s little indication that it’s where we’re going any time soon.
Chief of @NYPDDetectives James Essig plans to combat violence by targeting the small percentage of criminals who commit the vast majority of crime — an approach that resulted in a historic crime reduction when he was head of the Gun Violence Suppression Unit.
Nearly four years after the Fyre Festival left attendees scrounging for makeshift shelter on a dark beach, a court has decided how much the nightmare scenario was worth: approximately $7,220 apiece. https://t.co/HJd9XcS5mv
For the first time, U.S. and Chinese scientists have created embryos that are part human, part monkey, in an effort to find new ways to produce organs for transplants.
[....] "Today's court-authorized removal of the malicious web shells demonstrates the department's commitment to disrupt hacking activity using all of our legal tools, not just prosecutions," Assistant Attorney General for national security John C. Demers said [....]
UN Chief Backs Wealth Tax on Rich Who ‘Profited’ From Pandemic. Guterres cites $5 trillion increase for world’s richest. UN leader says he wants to reduce ‘extreme inequalities’. https://t.co/V5WAdnfLdM via @bpolitics
the political situation outlined here should be of interest for all "blue cities" with rising crime rates and policing issues
'There's Still a Question About His Agenda': The Reelection Hurdles Facing Philadelphia's Progressive Incumbent DA Larry Krasner https://t.co/Yh52P3izVw