Month: June 2020

The U.S. government’s top advocate before the Supreme Court, Noel Francisco, who defended President Donald Trump’s policies including the travel ban on people from mainly Muslim countries, is expected to resign, according to a person […]

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The focus of so much of the recent George Floyd protests has been on police violence against demonstrators and others, but in New York City, the union that represents NYPD detectives is turning the tables, […]

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President Donald Trump ruled out renaming U.S. military bases that are named for Confederate leaders on Wednesday even as NASCAR banned the Confederate flag from its races and Democrats sought the removal from Capitol Hill […]

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On June 4, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced that Richmond’s largest Confederate statue will be removed – one among the many statues in honor of the Confederacy that are being taken down in cities across […]

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President Donald Trump last week was on the brink of firing Defense Secretary Mark Esper over their differing views of domestic use of active-duty military, before advisers and allies on Capitol Hill talked him out […]

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Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are spiking in parts of California and the U.S. Southwest, prompting Arizona to reactivate its emergency plan for medical facilities and California to place counties where half its population lives on […]

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The district council for Washington, D.C. on Tuesday approved a raft of police reforms after days of protests against police brutality and racism in the U.S. capital and nationwide, sparked by the death of African-American […]

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