A police officer who shot and killed a naked, unarmed man earlier this year won’t face criminal charges, prosecutors in Virginia announced. Officer Michael Nyantakyi shot and killed 24-year-old high school biology teacher Marcus-David Peters on the shoulder of Interstate 95/64 in Richmond on May 14. Peters was naked and acted erratically and, at times, threateningly, according […]
It was a moving tribute to a beloved lawmaker. Or perhaps it was a ruthless takedown of an autocratic president. Actually, the service in Washington on Saturday honoring the life of late Sen. John McCain was, perhaps, equal parts of each. President Donald Trump was not invited to speak at McCain’s funeral service. Instead, Trump, dressed […]
Laura Ingraham — the Fox News host and fringe radio personality whom no one should take seriously on the topic of what’s racist because she herself is demonstrably racist — decided Ron DeSantis should receive an apology. He’s earned that apology, Ingraham believes, because he got in trouble for using racist terms to talk about […]
President Donald Trump threatened to cut Canada out of the trade deal his government has been negotiating with Mexico — one day after admitting in an off-the-record interview that he was just stringing Ottawa along. “There is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal,” Trump tweeted Saturday morning, in reference to the […]
In a presidential proclamation released Friday, the White House falsely claimed that the Trump administration “has taken historic action to advance prosperity for the American worker.” While many of the administration’s actions are historic — the tax cut benefiting corporations and rich people are on track to balloon the deficit to record-setting levels — they […]
California lawmakers passed a bill late Friday that will make it easier for electric companies to recover wildfire costs from their customers, even if a utility’s equipment is found to have caused the fire. The approved bill, S.B. 901, allows state utility regulators to decide whether a utility acted reasonably when its infrastructure causes a wildfire, […]
A senior army official who posted anti-Muslim comments on Facebook has been taken out of contention for a top job at a US immigration agency. Guy Sands-Pingot was set to take over in mid-September at deputy director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services. The agency scuttled those plans after a BuzzFeed News report late Friday […]
The Village Voice announced Friday it would stop publishing after 63 years. A year ago it stopped publishing in print, despite promises from the company’s new owner, Peter D. Barbey, to invest in and revitalize the famed publication. Forbes recently estimated that Barbey was worth about $6 billion, but he cited “business realities” in his statement to […]
In overwhelming fashion, teachers in Los Angeles voted to authorize a strike over pay, class size, and the city’s push toward charter schools, the union announced late Friday. Ninety-eight percent of the union, the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), voted to approve a strike authorization, and 81 percent of the members cast ballots in the […]
In overwhelming fashion, teachers in Los Angeles voted to authorize a strike over pay, class size, and the city’s push toward charter schools, the union announced late Friday. Ninety-eight percent of the union, the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), voted to approve a strike authorization, and 81 percent of the members cast ballots in the […]
Next Sunday, Swedes will vote in their country’s general election, with polls indicating that it will become the next European state to embrace a worrying, far-right political shift on the continent. According to current polling, the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) are poised to gain around 20 percent of all votes, making them the country’s second or third […]