Ahmaud Arbery’s Family Worries About Impartiality of Jurors in Murder Trial
We travel to Brunswick, Georgia for an update on the jury selection process in the trial against three white men who shot Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old, while he was going for a run last year. Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael claim they were attempting a “citizen’s arrest” of Arbery last February when they […]
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Democrats Have “Gotten Very Comfortable Doing Nothing”
The reporter visited Buffalo, New York, in July. Summer festivals were underway, pandemic restrictions had eased and India Walton had just defeated Byron Brown, the incumbent four-term Mayor, in a Democratic primary bid a few months earlier. It wasn’t just the multiplying yard signs bearing the name of a nurse and community organizer that suggested […]
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Biden Says He’s Open to Reforming Filibuster to Win Voting Rights
Rights advocates are applauding President Joe Biden’s “long overdue”Remarks at a Thursday CNN He indicated that he would support significant reforms of the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation. The president told Anderson Cooper he’d be open to returning to the talking filibuster, which requires senators to speak on the floor of the […]
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How Prosecutors Use Conspiracy and Questionable Testimony in “Gang” Cases
On average, two people are wrongfully sentenced every day in the United States. The Innocence Project was established in 2014. estimatedAround 120,000 people were wrongfully convicted while in state prisons. One in five wrongful convictions is a result of being wrongfully convicted. study found, were the result of official misconduct by police officers, prosecutors — […]
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The Oath Keepers Militia Movement Has Taken Root in the Republican Mainstream
North Carolina state representative Mike Clampitt took an oath in 2016 to uphold the Constitution and again in 2020. But there’s another pledge that Clampitt said he’s upholding: to the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militant organization. Dozens of OathKeepers were arrested in connection with Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. Some of them resembled […]
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Rikers Island and the Shapeshifting Monster of Reform
Former prisoners of Rikers Island, members of the family of prisoners who’ve died on the jail and advocates for closing Rikers Island protest the deaths of 12 prisoners in 2021 on October 1, 2021, exterior of Metropolis Corridor in downtown Manhattan, New York. Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis by way of Getty Photos “This disaster embodies […]
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Manchin’s Compromise Voting Rights Bill Gets Zero Support From GOP Senators
Senate Republicans filibustered a voting rights invoice that was meant to be a compromised model of earlier voting rights laws proposed by Democrats — and which Sen. Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia, has stated would get at the least some GOP help. All 50 Republicans in the Senate voted to filibuster the […]
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Africa Will Lose All Three of Its Icebergs to Climate Change
The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro are nothing wanting iconic. Pictures of the dormant volcano in Tanzania usually spotlight the white streaks on the aspect, which develop thicker as they rise towards the highest. Whenever you arrive on the cap of the volcano, it turns into nothing however white, like a dollop of cream pressed flat […]
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What’s “in the Damn Bill” for Families? Bernie Sanders Wants You to Know.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) desires you to know “what’s within the rattling invoice.” The chairman of the Senate Funds Committee is in fact speaking concerning the finances reconciliation package deal that Democrats are at the moment haggling over in Congress, a debate that Sanders and different progressives say the media has framed across the authentic […]
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The Biden Administration Is Building Back to the Brink of a New Cold War
Earlier than it’s too late, we have to ask ourselves a vital query: Do we actually — I imply really — desire a new Chilly Battle with China? As a result of that’s simply the place the Biden administration is clearly taking us. In the event you want proof, try final month’s announcement of an […]
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