Biden: BLM protesters would have been treated ‘very … President-elect Joe Biden tweeted Thursday that the rioters who stormed the Capitol Wednesday were treated “very differently” than Black Lives Matter protesters, who have been demonstrating widely since the May police killing of George Floyd.
‘Textbook terrorism’: DC officials, Capitol police … The mayor of Washington, D.C., is expected to address the public Thursday morning in the aftermath of violence and clashes with police after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol.
Mississippi Senate votes to approve new state flag JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Six months after Mississippi legislators retired the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, they are finishing the process of adopting a new flag with a magnolia and the phrase “In God We Trust.” Voters approved the new flag in November after a commission recommended the design. […]
Biden selects Garland for AG; denounces violence … President-elect Joe Biden has called the violent protests on the U.S. Capitol “an assault on the most sacred of American undertakings: the doing of the people’s business.”
No charges against Wisconsin officer who shot Jacob … MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin prosecutor announced Tuesday that he will not file criminal charges against a white police officer who shot a Black man in the back in Kenosha last summer, leaving him paralyzed and setting off sometimes violent protests in the city. Officer Rusten Sheskey’s shooting of Jacob Blake on Aug. 23, […]
Illinois teen pleads not guilty in Kenosha protest … MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An Illinois teenager who fatally shot two people and wounded a third amidst sometimes violent summer protests on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges including intentional homicide. Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, entered his plea in a brief hearing conducted by teleconference that came just as Kenosha […]
Senate race thrusts ‘Black America’s church’ into … ATLANTA (AP) — For decades, the red-bricked Gothic Revival church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached has been a monument to the history of Black Americans’ fight for civil rights and the legacy of an activist icon. It took a high-stakes Senate race and a Trump-era cultural debate to thrust Ebenezer Baptist […]
Delay sought in ex-officers’ trial over George Floyd’s … MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors in the case against the four Minneapolis officers charged in the death of George Floyd requested that the trial delayed by three months. The Star Tribune reports prosecutors cited the COVID-19 pandemic and the amount of time needed before enough people are vaccinated and health risks are sufficiently diminished. The trial has […]
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died … U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — known as the Notorious RBG to her many admirers — was one of the many noteworthy figures who died in 2020.
The major stories that we might forget about when … From fleeing royals to out-of-control wildfires, here’s a look at some of the major storylines that may have been the big story of the year in a less chaotic trip around the sun.
As COVID-19 ravages US, shootings, killings are also … In Detroit, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and even smaller Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Milwaukee, 2020 has been deadly not only because of the pandemic, but because gun violence is spiking.
