Новости за 13.06.2020

The US Secret Service released a statement on Saturday revealing that they mislead Americans with a previous statement issued more than one week ago. “On June 5, the U.S. Secret Service released information stating the agency had concluded that no agency personnel used tear gas or capsicum spray during efforts to secure the area near […]

MSNBC’s Vaughn Hillyard was scolded by a protester on live TV while reporting from the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle on Saturday CHAZ is a roughly six-block area in Seattle that has been declared a police-free zone. Hillyard was wrapping an interview with protesters and was preparing to hand coverage back to anchor […]

On Saturday, the editorial board for The Columbus Dispatch published a scathing indictment of the the state’s Republican lawmakers, blasting them for a “steady stream of cluelessness” on racial sensitivity. “The latest embarrassment comes courtesy of Sen. Steve Huffman of Tipp City, who suggested, by way of asking a question, that “the colored population do […]

In the late winter of 1995, two middle-aged NASA scientists, David McKay and Everett Gibson, happened upon something peculiar in their Houston laboratory. They were using a scanning electron microscope to look at a sample of rock which allowed them to zoom in at over 100,000 times magnification. They were, in effect, flying over an […]

According to polling analyst Harry Enten, Donald Trump’s chances of being re-elected in November are growing worse every day as women increasingly say they won’t vote for him. Writing for CNN, Enten said the president is on the verge of losing the female vote by a “historic margin.” After reviewing polling over the last 70 […]

On Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s “Weekends,” former Obama administration aide Khalilah Harris speculated that President Donald Trump’s decision to move the Tulsa rally away from Juneteenth wasn’t really based on respect for the Black community, but fear of being confronted by counterprotesters — who plan to still demonstrate in Tulsa even though Trump won’t be […]

Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to the daily firehose of political pratfalls, unhinged tweet storms and other sundry embarrassments coming out of the current White House. It took […]

Former Alabama senator and Attorney General Jeff Sessions took to Twitter to attack his Democratic successor Doug Jones for voting to remove Confederate officers’ names from U.S. military bases. .@DougJones vote to remove from all military facilities and installations the names of every soldier who fought for the Confederacy betrays the character and decency of […]

Mark Twain’s instruction to curious residents of Freedom Central is, by now, familiar: “If you want to see the dregs of society, go down to the jail and watch the changing of the guard.” There is little doubt that the corrections officer who beats and torments the inmates under his supervision would use the phrase […]

According to WWL, a New Orleans police sergeant has been suspended and stripped of authority amid an investigation into a series of posts he made on social media. Sgt. Anthony Edenfield, who worked in the city’s homicide unit, allegedly posted a number of inflammatory comments. On one occasion, an account reported to be his linked […]

Critics of Donald Trump’s decision to drag graduating West Point cadets back to campus despite the continuing threat of the COVID-19 virus ramped up their criticism on Saturday afternoon following the president’s speech which was described by one commenter as a “grotesque campaign rally speech” that will likely be used in future re-election commercials. With […]

According to The Wall Street Journal, the district attorney of Harris County, Texas suspects that the police officer who arrested George Floyd on minor drug charges in 2004 may have falsified information in the case — which resulted in Floyd serving a brief sentence in a state jail. “The Harris County District Attorney, Kim Ogg, […]

On CNN Saturday, White House correspondent Jeremy Diamond laid into President Donald Trump for failing to mention racial injustice at any point in his West Point graduation speech. “What we heard him talk about was especially the history of this military academy, the history of the U.S. Army, and we heard the president really talk […]

Midway through his commencement address at West Point, Donald Trump noted that tomorrow is notable for being both the birthday of the U.S. Army and his own — and was greeted with silence by the graduating cadets. Earlier in his speech, scattered applause could be heard as the president commended some of the military school’s […]

At least half of the states that held primaries last week saw increased turnout after expanding their mail-in voting systems — despite President Donald Trump’s efforts to discourage other states from doing the same. At least four of the eight states that held primary elections last Tuesday saw higher turnout than they did in the 2016 […]

In a column for the Daily Beast, longtime political observer Michael Tomasky wrote that Donald Trump and Republicans hoping to ride their coded language and veiled racist rhetoric to victory in November are starting to realize it is no longer working on voters and they are “terrified.” With the public in an uproar over the […]

On Saturday, writing for the conservative blog Red State, Black commentator Kira Davis laid into right-wing activist Candace Owens. “I have tried to forge my own path in this business and respect the voices of other black commentators even when they diverge from my own opinions,” wrote Davis. “Sadly, I’ve not been allowed to follow […]

President Donald Trump is expected to give a commencement address to West Point grads on Saturday morning after they were summoned back after leaving the campus of COVID-19 fears. According to CNN, “President Donald Trump will address approximately 1,100 graduates who have gathered at the US Military Academy at West Point for the annual commencement […]

SEATTLE — A federal judge in Seattle has found evidence that the Seattle Police Department used excessive force and violated the free-speech rights of thousands of demonstrators, and has issued a temporary restraining order preventing officers from using pepper spray, tear gas, foam-tipped projectiles or any other force against peaceful protesters.In issuing the order, U.S. […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California judge on Friday suspended an executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom that tells counties how to conduct a vote-by-mail election this November, temporarily blocking one of the emergency measures Newsom issued because of the coronavirus outbreak.The setback to Newsom in Sutter County Superior Court may be short-lived. State lawmakers this […]

According to yet another excerpt from an upcoming book on Melania Trump’s relationship Donald Trump — including the early presidential years — the Washington Post reports that friends and aides of the president were furious that the first lady held out on joining the president at the White House with one Trump pal reportedly exclaiming, […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — On the fourth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting that killed 49 people and wounded over 50 people, U.S. Rep. Darren Soto announced legislation, along with Rep. Stephanie Murphy and Rep. Val Demings, that would establish the nightclub as a national memorial site.“I am pleased to announce that Majority Leader Steny Hoyer […]

On Saturday, the New York Post reported that Michael DeBonis, a former NYPD spokesman and detective, published an emotional condemnation of the killing of Eric Garner on Instagram. “We killed Eric Garner,” wrote DeBonis, acknowledging that, “In writing this post I’m fully aware that some of my cop friends may call me a traitor, a […]

Speaking to a large crowd of protestors on Friday, Wall Police Chief Kenneth Brown tried to win over critics of his department’s treatment of Black residents and even its own employees, who have complained of harassment and in some cases sued the department, sometimes with costly results for taxpayers.But many of the 500 or so […]

Wendy Green worries about what will happen if her son, who has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, gets stopped by police.James Patrick just doesn’t want his children to be targets.“America is speaking,” says 18-year-old Derrick Grant, looking out at a crowd that came together on a 90-degree day to make a statement.People have united across […]