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This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareBROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — Police fatally shot a man after a traffic stop on Sunday in suburban Minneapolis, sparking clashes between hundreds of protesters and officers in an area where tensions are already high during the ongoing trial of former.The victim’s family identified him as 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Hours after the shooting, hundreds of protesters surrounded the police headquarters and clashed with officers in riot gear, who fired stun grenades and tear gas. The Minnesota National Guard, which is deployed to the...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareBROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — Police fatally shot a man after a traffic stop on Sunday in suburban Minneapolis, sparking clashes between hundreds of protesters and officers in an area where tensions are already high during the ongoing trial of former.The victim’s family identified him as 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Hours after the shooting, hundreds of protesters surrounded the police headquarters and clashed with officers in riot gear, who fired stun grenades and tear gas. The Minnesota National Guard, which is deployed to the...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareLast May, Rodney Wheeler dialed 911 with a frantic plea for help: His wife had just plunged hundreds of feet over a steep cliff in a West Virginia national park.Authorities quickly launched a massive search for Julie Wheeler, 44. For days, hundreds of volunteers, police, and professional rescuers trekked along the base of the New River where her husband said she had fallen, aided by helicopters and rescue dogs.But Julie Wheeler had never gone missing. Three days after she supposedly fell off a cliff, authorities found her...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareLast May, Rodney Wheeler dialed 911 with a frantic plea for help: His wife had just plunged hundreds of feet over a steep cliff in a West Virginia national park.Authorities quickly launched a massive search for Julie Wheeler, 44. For days, hundreds of volunteers, police, and professional rescuers trekked along the base of the New River where her husband said she had fallen, aided by helicopters and rescue dogs.But Julie Wheeler had never gone missing. Three days after she supposedly fell off a cliff, authorities found her...WW…

The small plane arced over a blue lagoon near the Caribbean Sea, flying low above a family in a boat on Tuesday afternoon. As they clapped, it released a pink cloud into the sky."Girl! Girl!" a man aboard the boat yelled in Spanish, celebrating the dramatic results of the elaborate gender-reveal stunt for a new baby in the family. "It's a girl!"Seconds later, the family's video shows, the small aircraft plummeted into the Nichupté Lagoon, a body of water off the east coast of Cancún, as the family and their guests watched in disbelief."No way!" a man cried in Spanish with an obscenity. "It...…The small plane arced over a blue lagoon near the Caribbean Sea, flying low above a family in a boat on Tuesday afternoon. As they clapped, it released a pink cloud into the sky."Girl! Girl!" a man aboard the boat yelled in Spanish, celebrating the dramatic results of the elaborate gender-reveal stunt for a new baby in the family. "It's a girl!"Seconds later, the family's video shows, the small aircraft plummeted into the Nichupté Lagoon, a body of water off the east coast of Cancún, as the family and their guests watched in disbelief."No way!" a man cried in Spanish with an obscenity. "It...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareTwo Capitol Police officers who battled the mob of Donald Trump supporters that on Jan. 6 are suing the former president for the physical and emotional injuries they say they suffered in the attacks.In a federal suit filed Tuesday in D.C., Officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby allege that for months, Trump rallied the insurrectionists with baseless election fraud claims that eventually culminated in the breach of the Capitol that left five dead, including a Capitol Police officer. , and two officers who had been on...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareTwo Capitol Police officers who battled the mob of Donald Trump supporters that on Jan. 6 are suing the former president for the physical and emotional injuries they say they suffered in the attacks.In a federal suit filed Tuesday in D.C., Officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby allege that for months, Trump rallied the insurrectionists with baseless election fraud claims that eventually culminated in the breach of the Capitol that left five dead, including a Capitol Police officer. , and two officers who had been on...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareFor months, conservative attorney L. Lin Wood loudly spread former president Donald Trump’s false claims that widespread fraud had flipped the election. Wood spoke at rallies and filed unsuccessful lawsuits seeking to undo President Biden’s victory in Georgia, which Biden Now, Georgia officials have launched a voter fraud probe with a new target: Wood.On Monday, the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office confirmed to The Washington Post it is investigating whether Wood was a legal resident of the state when he cast his...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareFor months, conservative attorney L. Lin Wood loudly spread former president Donald Trump’s false claims that widespread fraud had flipped the election. Wood spoke at rallies and filed unsuccessful lawsuits seeking to undo President Biden’s victory in Georgia, which Biden Now, Georgia officials have launched a voter fraud probe with a new target: Wood.On Monday, the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office confirmed to The Washington Post it is investigating whether Wood was a legal resident of the state when he cast his...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTwo years before she was elected to Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene hopped on Facebook to respond to a comment falsely claiming that the Parkland, Fla., school shooting was staged, according to screenshots posted by , a liberal media watchdog group. Instead of rejecting the false claim surrounding the mass shooting that killed 17 people, Greene enthusiastically agreed with the conspiracy theory.“Exactly!” she wrote in response.Those comments, along unearthed this week of Greene casting doubt on school shootings, sparked...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTwo years before she was elected to Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene hopped on Facebook to respond to a comment falsely claiming that the Parkland, Fla., school shooting was staged, according to screenshots posted by , a liberal media watchdog group. Instead of rejecting the false claim surrounding the mass shooting that killed 17 people, Greene enthusiastically agreed with the conspiracy theory.“Exactly!” she wrote in response.Those comments, along unearthed this week of Greene casting doubt on school shootings, sparked...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareAmid a push to investigate whether any GOP lawmakers aided rioters at the Capitol, several Democrats last week accused an unnamed House Republican of before the Jan. 6 attack.Now, two Democratic lawmakers say they personally saw one Republican — Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado — with a “large” group in a tunnel connected to the Capitol days before the attempted insurrection that left four rioters and one police officer dead.Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) said on Monday that he and Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) had both seen Boebert in...…This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareAmid a push to investigate whether any GOP lawmakers aided rioters at the Capitol, several Democrats last week accused an unnamed House Republican of before the Jan. 6 attack.Now, two Democratic lawmakers say they personally saw one Republican — Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado — with a “large” group in a tunnel connected to the Capitol days before the attempted insurrection that left four rioters and one police officer dead.Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) said on Monday that he and Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) had both seen Boebert in...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareOne day before a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, a Democratic lawmaker says, she saw colleagues leading groups on “reconnaissance” tours of the building.Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) made the startling claim in a on Tuesday night as she accused Republicans of inciting the pro-Trump mob that vandalized the Capitol and attacked police officers.Sherrill, a former Navy helicopter pilot, described seeing “members of Congress who had groups coming through the Capitol that I saw on Jan. 5 for reconnaissance for the next...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareOne day before a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, a Democratic lawmaker says, she saw colleagues leading groups on “reconnaissance” tours of the building.Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) made the startling claim in a on Tuesday night as she accused Republicans of inciting the pro-Trump mob that vandalized the Capitol and attacked police officers.Sherrill, a former Navy helicopter pilot, described seeing “members of Congress who had groups coming through the Capitol that I saw on Jan. 5 for reconnaissance for the next...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareAs Berlinda Nibo was walking home Wednesday, she was met by a crowd of Trump supporters who had gathered in downtown Los Angeles, a smaller version of the D.C. demonstration that turned into a riot at the Capitol. Nibo, who is Black, said the group began to harass her as she passed by.“They’re yelling at me because of my color, calling me the n-word, calling me the b-word, saying, ‘All lives matter. Black lives doesn’t matter,’” Nibo, 25, told When she yelled back, Nibo said the crowd of dozens went after her.Moments...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareAs Berlinda Nibo was walking home Wednesday, she was met by a crowd of Trump supporters who had gathered in downtown Los Angeles, a smaller version of the D.C. demonstration that turned into a riot at the Capitol. Nibo, who is Black, said the group began to harass her as she passed by.“They’re yelling at me because of my color, calling me the n-word, calling me the b-word, saying, ‘All lives matter. Black lives doesn’t matter,’” Nibo, 25, told When she yelled back, Nibo said the crowd of dozens went after her.Moments...WW…