This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTULSA — Nine-year-old Nila Faulk was leaving the Trump campaign rally with her grandparents when chants of "Black lives matter" rang out from the street where protesters were blocking traffic. The chants gave way to shrieks and shouts as a white man stepped out of a truck and pepper-sprayed one of the black demonstrators.As activists separated the two, Nila and her grandparents hurried down the block, away from the fracas.“It’s a shame,” Ken Bonvillian said, when asked how he would explain to his granddaughter what she...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTULSA — Nine-year-old Nila Faulk was leaving the Trump campaign rally with her grandparents when chants of "Black lives matter" rang out from the street where protesters were blocking traffic. The chants gave way to shrieks and shouts as a white man stepped out of a truck and pepper-sprayed one of the black demonstrators.As activists separated the two, Nila and her grandparents hurried down the block, away from the fracas.“It’s a shame,” Ken Bonvillian said, when asked how he would explain to his granddaughter what she...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareMINNEAPOLIS — Royce White strode with calm determination in a black suit and white dress shirt, his lean frame, bald head and black beard impossible to miss at 6-foot-8. The chanting group of 200 behind him quickly swelled to thousands.This isn't exactly the crowd that the former National Basketball Association first-round pick thought he would be commanding at 29 years old, what might have been the prime of his career. It also might not be where one would expect a man with crippling anxiety to be standing as the world...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareMINNEAPOLIS — Royce White strode with calm determination in a black suit and white dress shirt, his lean frame, bald head and black beard impossible to miss at 6-foot-8. The chanting group of 200 behind him quickly swelled to thousands.This isn't exactly the crowd that the former National Basketball Association first-round pick thought he would be commanding at 29 years old, what might have been the prime of his career. It also might not be where one would expect a man with crippling anxiety to be standing as the world...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Trump administration on Sunday intensified its effort to pin blame on the far-left “antifa” movement for violent demonstrations over police killings of black people, as the president vowed on Twitter to designate antifa a terrorist organization and Attorney General William P. Barr asserted that it and other groups’ activities constituted “domestic terrorism.”Trump cannot, for practical and legal reasons, formally designate antifa a terrorist organization, and neither he nor his attorney general has made public...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Trump administration on Sunday intensified its effort to pin blame on the far-left “antifa” movement for violent demonstrations over police killings of black people, as the president vowed on Twitter to designate antifa a terrorist organization and Attorney General William P. Barr asserted that it and other groups’ activities constituted “domestic terrorism.”Trump cannot, for practical and legal reasons, formally designate antifa a terrorist organization, and neither he nor his attorney general has made public...WW…

Gift SharePresident Trump, after boasting about enthusiasm and promising a full house, spoke in an arena in Tulsa on Saturday night with many seats unfilled amid the coronavirus pandemic. Most of his supporters in the 19,000-seat BOK Center were not wearing masks, hours after his campaign had announced that six members of the advance team staffing the event had tested positive for the virus.In a speech lasting nearly two hours — filled with grievances, falsehoods and misleading claims — Trump said that because more testing means higher numbers of known coronavirus cases, his direction was...…Gift SharePresident Trump, after boasting about enthusiasm and promising a full house, spoke in an arena in Tulsa on Saturday night with many seats unfilled amid the coronavirus pandemic. Most of his supporters in the 19,000-seat BOK Center were not wearing masks, hours after his campaign had announced that six members of the advance team staffing the event had tested positive for the virus.In a speech lasting nearly two hours — filled with grievances, falsehoods and misleading claims — Trump said that because more testing means higher numbers of known coronavirus cases, his direction was...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareGALLUP, N.M. — Louie Bonaguidi had been mayor of this tiny city set among high desert buttes and Native American reservations for just a matter of hours last week when the governor called.“I want to congratulate you on your election,” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham told him. “And give my condolences, because we’re locking your city down.”Bonaguidi was not disappointed to hear that state troopers would be deployed to blockade all roads into Gallup. He was relieved: This was the only way, he believed, to stop local...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareGALLUP, N.M. — Louie Bonaguidi had been mayor of this tiny city set among high desert buttes and Native American reservations for just a matter of hours last week when the governor called.“I want to congratulate you on your election,” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham told him. “And give my condolences, because we’re locking your city down.”Bonaguidi was not disappointed to hear that state troopers would be deployed to blockade all roads into Gallup. He was relieved: This was the only way, he believed, to stop local...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePHILADELPHIA — The mayor imposed a curfew on Philadelphia on Wednesday and called in the National Guard following successive nights of rioting after police shot to death a Black man whose family said he was in the midst of a mental health crisis.The moves by Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) were aimed at curbing incidents of looting, fires and dozens of minor injuries to officers that officials said were caused by people taking advantage of the backlash against the shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. to commit crime. The...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePHILADELPHIA — The mayor imposed a curfew on Philadelphia on Wednesday and called in the National Guard following successive nights of rioting after police shot to death a Black man whose family said he was in the midst of a mental health crisis.The moves by Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) were aimed at curbing incidents of looting, fires and dozens of minor injuries to officers that officials said were caused by people taking advantage of the backlash against the shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. to commit crime. The...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareGREELEY, Colo. — When local health officials moved to close one of the country's biggest meatpacking plants amid a major coronavirus outbreak in April, Vice President Pence and one of the nation's leading health officials pushed to keep the plant operating, against the advice of top local and state health officials, according to records and interviews.The JBS Greeley plant, which employs more than 3,000 people, closed and reopened eight days later. Since then, three plant workers have died of covid-19, bringing the total...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareGREELEY, Colo. — When local health officials moved to close one of the country's biggest meatpacking plants amid a major coronavirus outbreak in April, Vice President Pence and one of the nation's leading health officials pushed to keep the plant operating, against the advice of top local and state health officials, according to records and interviews.The JBS Greeley plant, which employs more than 3,000 people, closed and reopened eight days later. Since then, three plant workers have died of covid-19, bringing the total...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareCollege football’s most powerful conference, the SEC, that it plans to forge ahead with a season this fall. But a day earlier, in a private meeting with conference leaders and medical advisers, several football players raised concerns about their safety, only to be told that positive cases on their teams were a “given,” according to an audio recording obtained by The Washington Post.The meeting, which took place Wednesday, included more than a dozen SEC football players, members of the conference’s medical advisory board...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareCollege football’s most powerful conference, the SEC, that it plans to forge ahead with a season this fall. But a day earlier, in a private meeting with conference leaders and medical advisers, several football players raised concerns about their safety, only to be told that positive cases on their teams were a “given,” according to an audio recording obtained by The Washington Post.The meeting, which took place Wednesday, included more than a dozen SEC football players, members of the conference’s medical advisory board...WW…

This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareHOMER GLEN, Ill. — The pads and jerseys he wore through two Stanley Cup seasons are strewn across the concrete floor in a dark basement closet. The framed newspaper stories chronicling his rise to the NHL are down in the basement, too, shrouded in bubble wrap.This stuff used to hang in the home of Daniel Carcillo’s grandfather. But he died in 2015, before Carcillo got to tell him how he had been abused in hockey, how he had been one of the abusers, how there was no way his kids would ever lace up skates. Carcillo...…This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareHOMER GLEN, Ill. — The pads and jerseys he wore through two Stanley Cup seasons are strewn across the concrete floor in a dark basement closet. The framed newspaper stories chronicling his rise to the NHL are down in the basement, too, shrouded in bubble wrap.This stuff used to hang in the home of Daniel Carcillo’s grandfather. But he died in 2015, before Carcillo got to tell him how he had been abused in hockey, how he had been one of the abusers, how there was no way his kids would ever lace up skates. Carcillo...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareHOWELL, Mich. — It's a Monday morning, and the Sunrise Family Diner is full. Retirees in jeans and plaid sit by the window, chatting over coffee and the local newspaper. A sign posted at the entrance urges customers to wear masks, but some don't. They get seated anyway, within arm's length of strangers in other booths.Michigan is under shutdown, but inside Sunrise Family Diner, you might assume there is no pandemic.This is the other rebellion. While armed extremists gathered outside the statehouse in Lansing a week after a mob...…This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareHOWELL, Mich. — It's a Monday morning, and the Sunrise Family Diner is full. Retirees in jeans and plaid sit by the window, chatting over coffee and the local newspaper. A sign posted at the entrance urges customers to wear masks, but some don't. They get seated anyway, within arm's length of strangers in other booths.Michigan is under shutdown, but inside Sunrise Family Diner, you might assume there is no pandemic.This is the other rebellion. While armed extremists gathered outside the statehouse in Lansing a week after a mob...WW…