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House Democrats approved a far-reaching police overhaul Thursday.

MEMPHIS — Two weeks to the day after the senseless killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Tigers basketball coach Penny Hardaway speaking out, joining a long list of athletes and coaches demanding change. “Along with millions of Americans, I too am outraged and filled with a range of emotions,” Hardaway said in a statement. “Determined […]

A Senate investigation of the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has uncovered broad government, military and law enforcement missteps before the attack, including a breakdown within multiple intelligence agencies and a lack of training and preparation for Capitol Police officers who were quickly overwhelmed by the rioters.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel advanced a decades-long effort to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves by approving legislation Wednesday that would create a commission to study the issue. It’s the first time the House Judiciary Committee has acted on the legislation. Still, prospects for final passage remain poor in such a closely […]

For the first time since the death of George Floyd, the Senate held a hearing Tuesday to address policing reforms.

Beginning with George Floyd’s death in police custody, lawmakers across the country and in Tennessee have struggled for answers as protests large and small demand answers.

Former President Barack Obama on Friday responded to the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, saying black Americans nationwide are feeling “anguish” that he said is “shared by me and millions of others.” “This shouldn’t be ‘normal’ in 2020 America. It can’t be ‘normal,’” Obama said in a statement released on Twitter. “If we want […]

The first night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention was unlike any other — fully virtual, yet packed with headliners.

Houston officials are expecting thousands of mourners during Monday’s visitation for George Floyd, whose death in Minneapolis police custody has sparked protests around the United States and across the world.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As the U.S. faces a reckoning over its history of racism, some Native American tribal nations that once owned slaves also are grappling with their own mistreatment of Black people. When Native American tribes were forced from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to what is now Oklahoma in the 1800s — known […]

MINNEAPOLIS – The former police officer who knelt on George Floyd was arrested Friday. State prosecutors charged Derek Chauvin with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for the death of George Floyd, a black man who was handcuffed and pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. Minnesota’s sentencing guidelines recommend 12 1/2 years for a conviction on the […]