Seattle police withdrew to an compound early Sunday.just hours after declaring a riot during the large protests in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, near where weeks earlier people established a “busy protest zone” that spanned several blocks. Some protesters lingered after officers entered the department’s East Precinct around 1 a.m., but …
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With an impending election and polls looking bad, Donald Trump needed a quick political boost. Taking advantage of television footage of a refugee procession outside Honduras, the president announced an imminent “invasion” of the United States by a “migrant caravan” and said he would deploy 15,000 military personnel to stop …
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The feds are going home! Protests break out in Portland when Seattle mayor admits he doesn’t know how many officers are being dispatched to his city Thousands of people joined another night of protests on the streets of Portland, hours after a US judge denied the Oregon state’s request to …
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… and welcome to another day of coverage of the US coronavirus outbreak – and, of course, its policy and everything else. The United States is now, according to Johns Hopkins University, in more than 4.1 million confirmed cases and more than 145,000 people dead. The economy is still crumbling …
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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s outrage at the verbal assault of a Republican lawmaker escalated to an extraordinary moment on the floor of the House on Thursday when she and other Democrats attacked a sexist culture of “accepting violence and violent language against women “whose supporters include Donald Trump. A day after …
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