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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A judge ordered five Seattle news outlets to comply with a subpoena and to release unreleased videos and photos of a May 30 racial justice protest to the Seattle police department. King County Superior Court Judge Nelson Lee sided with the city police department and ruled that his subpoena was …
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Protester Sam Grocott says he was hit by a silver BMW during a protest march that stopped traffic on Highway 101 in San Luis Obispo on Tuesday. “I feel like he assaulted me with his car, so I want what can be done about it to be done,” Grocott said. …
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The chairs of eight parliamentary foreign affairs committees across Europe have written to the Chinese government in opposition to Hong Kong’s new security law, saying it violates “basic human rights” in their countries. The joint statement by the committee chairs, from countries like Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Latvia, Norway …
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Valerie Yurk from The Guardian reports: Forty states lack mandates to fully protect citizens from electricity, gas and water disconnections as leniency measures to pay bills expire, making Americans affected by the economic downturn vulnerable to one of the hottest summers on record and the continued spread of the coronavirus, …
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