Rep. John Lewis, A Force In The Civil Rights Movement, Dead At 80 END CLASS=”STORYTITLE” END CLASS=”STORY-TOOLS” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” Rep. John Lewis, A Force In The Civil Rights Movement, Dead At 80 Rep, John Lewis, who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington, said it was a moral obligation to stand up for […]
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Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets . News | OPB
UPDATE (7:46 p.m. PT) — In the early hours of July 15, after a night spent protesting at the Multnomah County Justice Center and Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse, Mark Pettibone and his friend Conner O’Shea decided to head home. It had been a calm night compared to most protesting downtown. By 2 a.m. law enforcement […]
Federal officers respond to Portland protests with gas, munitions Thursday amid growing attention from Trump administration – oregonlive.com
Portland protests continue for 50th straight night Portland demonstrators reacted Thursday to a wave of national attention from President Donald Trump and his administration by once again amassing throughout the city to decry police violence against Black Americans. Federal officers responded to one late-night demonstrations downtown by using gas, smoke and impact munitions to press […]
Coronavirus data has disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC
An empty bed is moved back to the emergency room after brining in another COVID-19 patient. At United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, Dr. Joseph Varon leads a team to fight the increasing number of coronavirus patients in the expanded Covid-19 ward on July 1, 2020. Carolyn Cole | Los Angeles Times | Getty […]
Weinstein Sex-Abuse Settlement Rejected by Federal Judge
(Bloomberg) — A federal judge won’t give preliminary approval to a proposed $18.9 million settlement between Harvey Weinstein and nine women who say he sexually assaulted or abused them, saying the tentative deal isn’t fair to other women. Harvey Weinstein, center, departs from state supreme court in New York on Jan. 27. U.S. District Judge […]
Joe Biden builds lead over Donald Trump in reliably red Texas, as voters sour on handling of virus
AUSTIN — Former Vice President Joe Biden has built a 5-point lead over President Donald Trump in Texas, as unease over Trump’s handling of coronavirus mounts, a new Dallas Morning News-University of Texas Tyler poll has found. If the general election were held today, Biden would carry Texas, with 46% of the vote to Trump’s […]
Mitt Romney Calls Roger Stone’s Commutation ‘Historic, Unprecedented Corruption’ : NPR
‘Unprecedented, Historic Corruption’: Romney Joins Critics Of Stone’s Commutation END CLASS=”STORYTITLE” END CLASS=”STORY-TOOLS” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” Roger Stone, seen here leaving a federal courthouse earlier this year in Washington, D.C., will not have to serve his three-year prison sentence for lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstruction of justice. Roger Stone, seen here […]
Pelosi Plans Bill to Limit Pardons in Wake of Stone Commutation
(Bloomberg) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that in the wake of President Donald Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s criminal sentence, she plans to support a bill limiting the ability of presidents to take such actions. “President Trump’s decision to commute the sentence of top campaign adviser Roger Stone, who could directly implicate him in […]
Trump Commutes Sentence Of Longtime Friend And Adviser Roger Stone : NPR
Trump Commutes Sentence Of Longtime Friend And Adviser Roger Stone END CLASS=”STORYTITLE” END CLASS=”STORY-TOOLS” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” Roger Stone leaves federal court after a sentencing hearing in February in Washington, D.C. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Roger Stone leaves federal court after a sentencing hearing […]
How Justice Alito’s Blistering Dissent in Vance Case May Be Used Against Trump
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a characteristically strident dissent in the first of two cases concerning President Donald Trump’s tax returns and other financial records on Thursday. Some of the arguments gathered in service of his outrage, however, may have unintended consequences that don’t appear to augur well for executive power. “[A] State’s […]