(Associated Press) Minneapolis police will no longer stop motorists for minor traffic violations arguing they have racist outcomes, according to a new policy change.
Police Chief Medaria Arrandondo, in an internal memo Thursday, said the move comes after examining how officers can better use time and resources.
"MPD will no longer...
(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) The slogan above the Washington Post’s banner captures the Left’s view of the allegedly authoritarian Donald J. Trump’s presidency: “Democracy dies in darkness.”
It’s now time for a new credo, given the recent actions of President Joe Biden and his party: “Democracy dies in broad daylight.”
Democrats'...
(Jon Styf, The Center Square) Former football players becoming politicians isn’t new.
Plenty of ex-football players have been elected to Congress or state legislatures, and former NFL running back Herschel Walker is working on a U.S. Senate run in Georgia.
But having a retired NFL player run for a local school board,...
(Headline USA) The fight over mask and vaccine mandates moved to the center of California’s looming recall election Friday, with candidate Larry Elder promising to swiftly roll back sweeping government orders.
Elder, in his first press conference since announcing his candidacy July 12, told reporters that if he replaces Democratic...
Snopes Media Group apologized Friday after discovering, upon internal review, that CEO and co-founder David Mikkelson had committed extensive plagiarism, especially from 2014 to 2016.
"Let us be clear: Plagiarism undermines our mission and values, full stop," said the statement. "It has no place in any context within this organization."
The...
(Headline USA) Democrats filed a lawsuit Friday asking a federal court to throw out Wisconsin’s current congressional and legislative district boundaries, arguing the 10-year-old maps are unconstitutional and shouldn’t be used as the starting point for new districts set to be drawn in the coming months.
The lawsuit came less...
Minority activists are accusing left-wing environmental group the Sunrise Movement of racism and tokenization, claiming the organization’s leaders discriminated against black and Latino members regularly.
More than 100 activists signed a letter, obtained by Buzzfeed News, that accuses the Sunrise Movement of financial mismanagement and racial discrimination.
“Staff and movement leaders...
A New Jersey inmate who was freed early because of the coronavirus pandemic was charged with murdering a teenager just two days after he was released.
Jerry Crawford, 25, was in prison for burglary when he was let out on “public health emergency credits” for parole supervision on Nov. 4,...
Minneapolis has transferred about $700,000 from the police department's budget to "credible-messenger programs," in which former gangsters, convicts and anti-violence activists try to bring violent disputes to peaceful conclusions, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Minneapolis pays Agape---a so-called credible-messenger organization with about 30 members---to purchase and distribute food to the...
A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction on behalf of religious health care providers who feared the Biden administration would interpret the Affordable Care Act as requiring them to perform abortions or gender-transition treatment against their conscience.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had argued that it...
A federal judge on Friday declined landlords' request to put the Biden administration’s new eviction moratorium on hold, though she ruled that the freeze is illegal.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich said her “hands are tied” by an appellate decision from the last time courts considered the evictions moratorium in...
The Congressional Black Caucus protests that election integrity laws --- which have passed some Republican-controlled state legislatures --- discriminate against blacks, yet three of its most influential members called for similar reforms while working on the Democrat-only Congressional Task Force on Election Security.
Three black Democrats—Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, Cedric Richmond...