(Associated Press) Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City after appealing to the political center and promising to strike the right balance between fighting crime and ending racial injustice in policing.
A former police captain, Adams would be the city’s second Black...
(Headline USA) New York can try to sue gun manufacturers over harm caused by their products under legislation that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed Tuesday.
The new law comes at a time when New York City in particular is facing a rise in shootings.
Overall, violence is well short of the historic highs...
(Headline USA) The Los Angeles police officer who shared a photo of George Floyd with the words “you take my breath away” in a Valentine-like format has been cleared of wrongdoing and will not face any punishment.
The officer, who has not been named publicly, was found not guilty of...
(Headline USA) Top Biden administration officials on Tuesday hosted a brother to Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, in the highest-level such visit known since the U.S. made public intelligence findings linking the crown prince to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
It marked a surprise reversal from...
Radical leftist Squad member Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., claimed in a Fourth of July tweet that black people in the United States "still aren't free," Newsmax reported.
Freedom in America, she claimed, is for white people.
When they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom, remember this: the...
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, said on the Fourth of July that China "wants to own the world" and must be stopped, Newsmax reported.
In a Fox News interview, Marshall said that we must subject China to public shaming for its role in the origination and spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
“China...
Rep. James Clyburn, D-SC, claimed that he now supports voter ID requirements across the country, departing from his earlier and more radical opposition to such standards, Fox News reported.
The House majority whip has repeatedly opposed such measures, arguing that ID requirements and other traditional expectations are racist.
But Clyburn has...
Almost half of San Francisco’s residents said they plan to leave the city due to rising crime and a deteriorating quality of life, according to a recent poll.
The poll, commissioned by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, showed that 40% of the 500 residents they interviewed plan to leave...
(Headline USA) The drastic about-face from mainstream media in coverage of the US border crisis was immediately clear in their refusal to cover the atrocious conditions in migrant detention centers, newly reopened and overcrowded under President Joe Biden.
These cages are not only ignored with a casual disinterest, however. The...
Not one candidate who participated in Seattle's mayoral forum on Tuesday called for the city's police department to receive less funding, let alone to "defund the police."
Only last summer the Seattle City Council endorsed --- but did not ultimately adopt --- the radical proposal to cut the police department's budget by...
(Headline USA) California on Thursday scheduled a Sept. 14 recall election that could drive Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom from office, the result of a political uprising largely driven by angst over state coronavirus orders that shuttered schools and businesses and upended life for millions of Californians.
Meanwhile, conservative talk show host...
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., suggested Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., could lose her committee assignments since she accepted the appointment from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to a Democrat-controlled select committee formed to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.
Cheney, who was recently ousted from her House Republican leadership...