The Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery cases raise intriguing legal questions about people who take the law into their own hands and then claim self-defense when someone dies.
Union leaders representing 50,000 nurses and other U.S. medical staff reached a tentative agreement with Kaiser Permanente on Saturday, averting a strike that could have disrupted patient care at hospitals. https://t.co/RnI6ShQaQ4
A Paris court has been listening to gut-churning recollections of the 2015 terrorist attacks — and to heart-wrenching accounts of lives that were shattered. https://t.co/Rg4YtikJEC
New emails and documents released by a congressional committee investigating the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic show the extent to which top White House officials interfered in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s efforts to warn Americans about Covid-19.
EXCLU: @IlhanMN will today introduce a bill to block Biden's $650 million sale to Saudi Arabia. @RoKhanna backs her bid―now she's seeking a Senate ally.
Meanwhile, top House Dems say the defense bill must punish Saudi.
NEWS: "The U.S. is now part of an international agreement on cybersecurity that the Trump administration declined to sign up for, Vice President Kamala Harris announced in Paris Wednesday."https://t.co/9LsOaqLKhF
Representative Darin LaHood voted against the infrastructure bill while Representative Adam Kinzinger supported it. The split reflects the Republican Party’s post-Trump era of uncertainty.
Despite attempts by lawmakers and some parents to remove his books from Texas schools, award-winning author @JerryCraft said his books have actually gotten more attention thanks to the controversies. https://t.co/EHFcXgvuwV
The City takes measure of the genius of Chirlane McCray (Mayor De Blasio's wife) in spending mucho taxpayer funds on "mental health".
We took a peek inside a shuttered Bronx facility where NYPD cops are supposed to take emotionally distressed New Yorkers to get help. Another center in East Harlem has served just 45 people — coming out to $1.1 million per visit.
Belarusian authorities escorted an estimated 1,000 people to the Polish border in an escalation of a deadly crisis that has already left people desperate to reach the EU trapped between borders and at least eight dead due to exposure, reports @guardian. https://t.co/PfU7rR1e3Z
It's recess week on Capitol Hill. But there's an intense to-do list for the rest of the year: the debt limit, government funding bills and the social spending package.
Let's take a look at the basic governance tasks that lawmakers still have to do.
An overwhelming majority of voters said cancel culture has gone too far, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds. Seventy-one percent of registered voters said they strongly or somewhat believe that cancel culture has gone too far. By contrast, 29 percent of respondents said they believe a little or not at all.
President Biden called Nicaragua's elections a "sham" Sunday evening, ahead of the expected win of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo.
