A woman was charged with attempted murder after the car she was driving struck two people during a demonstration for racial justice in California that clashed with a counterprotest on Saturday, the authorities said. The driver, Tatiana Turner, of Long Beach, Calif., was also charged with assault with a deadly weapon, the Orange County Sheriff’s […]
Sept 27 (Reuters) – A Kentucky legislator who was arrested during demonstrations over the Breonna Taylor case accused Louisville police of detaining her and about 20 allies on false pretenses on Sunday and called for charges to be dropped. State Representative Attica Scott, the only Black woman in the Kentucky legislature, was arrested along with […]
By Kassie Bracken and Alexandra Eaton During Georgia’s June primary, frustrated voters documented long waits at polls in social media messages like this and this. Kevin A. Cronin captured the opposite — a nearly empty polling place in Sandy Springs, an Atlanta suburb. “Oh look,” he said after he put his absentee ballot in a […]
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — A woman who authorities say drove a car into a crowd during a Southern California demonstration against police brutality, striking and injuring two people, has been arrested for investigation of attempted murder and assault. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement late Saturday that 40-year-old Tatiana Turner of […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Donald Trump demanded on Sunday (Sept 27) that his Democratic rival Joe Biden take a drug test either before or after the pair’s first debate on Tuesday, in his latest salvo against his opponent’s mental acuity. “I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to, […]
UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES (AFP) – “Our common house is in disorder,” said French President Emmanuel Macron, describing the troubled state of the United Nations General Assembly as it prepares for a second week of mostly virtual meetings and speeches starting on Tuesday (Sept 29). For the first time, the speeches of presidents and prime […]
[Race/Related is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox.] On a warm July day, Ron and Jill Carson sat in a former one-room schoolhouse in Pennington Gap, Va., that until 1965 was the only primary school in town for Black children. The first seven years of Mr. Carson’s […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – A federal judge scheduled an rare Sunday morning (Sept 27) hearing to decide whether the US can go through with its ban on the popular video-sharing app TikTok. ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, has asked the court to block the ban, set to begin on Sunday night, even as it pursues approvals from […]
LOMA, Colo. — Lauren Boebert, the feisty hard-right Republican House candidate, had just finished regaling a crowd clad in red, white and blue at a livestock sale barn here on the Western Slope with dire warnings that “our country is on the line” in the coming election and “if we lose America, we lose our […]
Amy Coney Barrett is widely expected to be announced as Donald Trump’s pick for the vacant seat on the US Supreme Court tonight. She will bring change to the court and country, no doubt. Her nomination also brings a political outcry. Assuming she is confirmed as filling the vacancy on the bench created by Ruth […]