The heads of the Judiciary, National Security and Oversight and Reform committees sent a letter Sunday to inspectors general of the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security requesting the investigation. “As we continue to support our fellow citizens protesting against systemic racism and police brutality across the country, …
Read More »‘We Need to Close’: Florida Reports More Than 10,000 Coronavirus Cases by Day Five
Florida reported 12,523 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, marking the fifth consecutive day that the hotspot state reported more than 10,000 cases, according to the state health department. The state has reported more than 11,865 coronavirus cases on average in the past seven days, up 28.85% compared to a …
Read More »Proof that Trump continues to brag about pain shouldn’t be difficult
Donald Trump wants you to know that he is a very smart man. So smart, he repeatedly insists, that he “hit” a cognitive test. There is only one thing: the test is not intended to be difficult. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), which NBC reported in 2018 is the assessment …
Read More »How John Lewis befriended a boy and changed his life forever
For that boy, Tybre Faw, the civil rights icon was not only a hero, but a personal friend. The two met in Selma, Alabama, in March 2018. We were there covering the annual civil rights pilgrimage that Lewis led when we saw Tybre standing outside a church where Lewis was …
Read More »Trump 2020: the president can get rid of his advisers, but only he is to blame
In President Donald Trump’s reelection run, which attracts enough national attention to hide the sun, they matter even less. That salesman’s talent, now a crippling weakness in 2020, makes campaign manager Brad Parscale’s firing last week a minor development. “Trump is the message, Trump is the strategist, Trump is the …
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