This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareAs protesters demanding an end to police brutality and systemic racism , the president took to Twitter to ask why he didn’t see a different kind of demonstration instead.Above a retweeted video of a black man repeatedly punching a white department store employee, : “Looks what’s going on here. Where are the protesters?”He also retweeted another account that asked “Where are the protests for this?” with a clip of a black man pushing a white woman into the side of a subway car.“So terrible!” Trump . that individual crimes...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareAs protesters demanding an end to police brutality and systemic racism , the president took to Twitter to ask why he didn’t see a different kind of demonstration instead.Above a retweeted video of a black man repeatedly punching a white department store employee, : “Looks what’s going on here. Where are the protesters?”He also retweeted another account that asked “Where are the protests for this?” with a clip of a black man pushing a white woman into the side of a subway car.“So terrible!” Trump . that individual crimes...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareFederal authorities identified a self-described “anti-feminist” lawyer found dead Monday as the “primary subject” in a shooting at a federal judge’s New Jersey home that killed the jurist’s son and left her husband badly injured.U.S. District Judge Esther Salas was not harmed in the Sunday shooting, which , the U.S. Marshals Service and local authorities continue to investigate. The FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey identified the dead suspect as Roy Den Hollander. Speaking on the condition of anonymity to...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareFederal authorities identified a self-described “anti-feminist” lawyer found dead Monday as the “primary subject” in a shooting at a federal judge’s New Jersey home that killed the jurist’s son and left her husband badly injured.U.S. District Judge Esther Salas was not harmed in the Sunday shooting, which , the U.S. Marshals Service and local authorities continue to investigate. The FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey identified the dead suspect as Roy Den Hollander. Speaking on the condition of anonymity to...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareOn Friday, the Anderson County Review, a rural Kansas newspaper, posted a cartoon to Facebook in response to from Gov. Laura Kelly (D). The in a face covering emblazoned with the Star of David over a photo of Jews in Nazi Germany, with the caption: “Lockdown Laura says: Put on your mask … and step onto the cattle car.” After a weekend , the paper’s owner and publisher, who is also a GOP county chairman, pulled the cartoon and apologized on Sunday.“After some heartfelt and educational conversations with Jewish leaders in...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareOn Friday, the Anderson County Review, a rural Kansas newspaper, posted a cartoon to Facebook in response to from Gov. Laura Kelly (D). The in a face covering emblazoned with the Star of David over a photo of Jews in Nazi Germany, with the caption: “Lockdown Laura says: Put on your mask … and step onto the cattle car.” After a weekend , the paper’s owner and publisher, who is also a GOP county chairman, pulled the cartoon and apologized on Sunday.“After some heartfelt and educational conversations with Jewish leaders in...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareBefore launching a broadside against Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Fox News host Tucker Carlson acknowledged that it’s not easy to go after a Purple Heart recipient who lost both her legs while serving her country in Iraq.“You’re not supposed to criticize Tammy Duckworth in any way because she once served in the military,” Carlson said Monday night.That didn’t stop him from calling Duckworth, a , “a deeply silly and unimpressive person” and suggesting that she and other Democratic leaders “actually hate...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareBefore launching a broadside against Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Fox News host Tucker Carlson acknowledged that it’s not easy to go after a Purple Heart recipient who lost both her legs while serving her country in Iraq.“You’re not supposed to criticize Tammy Duckworth in any way because she once served in the military,” Carlson said Monday night.That didn’t stop him from calling Duckworth, a , “a deeply silly and unimpressive person” and suggesting that she and other Democratic leaders “actually hate...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareBy the time President Trump finished speaking to thousands of supporters at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield on Tuesday night and jetted away on Air Force One, the temperature had plunged to nearly freezing.But as long lines of MAGA-clad attendees queued up for buses to take them to distant parking lots, it quickly became clear something was wrong.The buses, the huge crowd soon learned, couldn’t navigate the jammed airport roads. For hours, attendees — including many elderly Trump supporters — stood in the cold as police scrambled...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareBy the time President Trump finished speaking to thousands of supporters at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield on Tuesday night and jetted away on Air Force One, the temperature had plunged to nearly freezing.But as long lines of MAGA-clad attendees queued up for buses to take them to distant parking lots, it quickly became clear something was wrong.The buses, the huge crowd soon learned, couldn’t navigate the jammed airport roads. For hours, attendees — including many elderly Trump supporters — stood in the cold as police scrambled...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday removed language from its website that said the novel coronavirus spreads via airborne transmission, the latest example of the agency backtracking from its own guidance.The agency said the guidance, which went up on Friday and largely went without notice until late Sunday, should not have been posted because it was an early draft.“Unfortunately an early draft of a revision went up without any technical review,” said Jay Butler, the CDC’s deputy director for...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday removed language from its website that said the novel coronavirus spreads via airborne transmission, the latest example of the agency backtracking from its own guidance.The agency said the guidance, which went up on Friday and largely went without notice until late Sunday, should not have been posted because it was an early draft.“Unfortunately an early draft of a revision went up without any technical review,” said Jay Butler, the CDC’s deputy director for...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareLast week, Alabama state Rep. Will Dismukes (R-Prattville) after he spoke at a celebration honoring the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard during the same weekend that longtime congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis was in Selma.On Thursday, Dismukes was arrested on a felony charge of first-degree property theft. Prosecutors between 2016 and 2018 from a flooring company where he worked before his election to the Alabama House of Representatives.“The warrant is signed for an amount exceeding $2,500. I will tell you...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareLast week, Alabama state Rep. Will Dismukes (R-Prattville) after he spoke at a celebration honoring the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard during the same weekend that longtime congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis was in Selma.On Thursday, Dismukes was arrested on a felony charge of first-degree property theft. Prosecutors between 2016 and 2018 from a flooring company where he worked before his election to the Alabama House of Representatives.“The warrant is signed for an amount exceeding $2,500. I will tell you...WW…

This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareBefore President Trump made his way onto the stage at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Thursday, thousands of supporters in Make America Great Again gear bobbed along to the familiar guitar licks of hometown star Prince’s “Purple Rain.”The singer’s estate, though, was less thrilled to hear the track.In fact, in a tweet shortly after the event, the president’s attorneys had promised to stop playing his music at any Trump events — and attached a letter as proof.“President Trump played Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ tonight at a...…This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareBefore President Trump made his way onto the stage at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Thursday, thousands of supporters in Make America Great Again gear bobbed along to the familiar guitar licks of hometown star Prince’s “Purple Rain.”The singer’s estate, though, was less thrilled to hear the track.In fact, in a tweet shortly after the event, the president’s attorneys had promised to stop playing his music at any Trump events — and attached a letter as proof.“President Trump played Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ tonight at a...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareWhen Golda Barton dialed 911 on Friday, she hoped emergency responders could help hospitalize her 13-year-old son, who has Asperger syndrome and was having a mental crisis.Instead, a Salt Lake City police officer repeatedly shot Linden Cameron after he ran away, leaving the boy in serious condition with injuries to his intestines, bladder, shoulder and ankles. Barton says he was unarmed, and police said they didn’t find a weapon at the scene.“He’s a small child. Why didn’t you just tackle him?” Barton said in a tearful...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareWhen Golda Barton dialed 911 on Friday, she hoped emergency responders could help hospitalize her 13-year-old son, who has Asperger syndrome and was having a mental crisis.Instead, a Salt Lake City police officer repeatedly shot Linden Cameron after he ran away, leaving the boy in serious condition with injuries to his intestines, bladder, shoulder and ankles. Barton says he was unarmed, and police said they didn’t find a weapon at the scene.“He’s a small child. Why didn’t you just tackle him?” Barton said in a tearful...WW…

An Asian American woman was walking through the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan on Monday morning when a stranger approached.The 65-year-old woman stopped abruptly outside a luxury condo tower, surveillance video shows. Suddenly, the man kicked her in the stomach, knocking her to the sidewalk, and then brutally stomped on her head again and again. All the while, police said, he spewed slurs at her.As the woman was viciously attacked, video appears to show at least three people in the condo's lobby passively watching the violence. When the attacker walks away, leaving the injured...…An Asian American woman was walking through the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan on Monday morning when a stranger approached.The 65-year-old woman stopped abruptly outside a luxury condo tower, surveillance video shows. Suddenly, the man kicked her in the stomach, knocking her to the sidewalk, and then brutally stomped on her head again and again. All the while, police said, he spewed slurs at her.As the woman was viciously attacked, video appears to show at least three people in the condo's lobby passively watching the violence. When the attacker walks away, leaving the injured...WW…