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US Supreme Court is also to blame for Daunte Wright’s death
Apr 22, 2021 11:58Systemic racism is the fuel that drives police violence against Black people, and we must cast aside any talk of “accidents” when it comes to matters of racially motivated violence.
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The collapse of American empire
Apr 22, 2021 11:54U.S. leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another, a trajectory mirroring the sad finales of other historical imperial powers.
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Authorities did not try to use ‘red flag’ law for Indianapolis gunman
Apr 22, 2021 11:51The senior county prosecutor in Indianapolis said on Monday (19 April) that his office never sought to invoke a law that could have prevented Brandon Hole from buying two firearms before he shot and killed eight people last week at a FedEx packaging warehouse.
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As new police reform laws sweep across the U.S., some ask: Are they enough?
Apr 22, 2021 11:47In February, Illinois enacted a law that rewrote many of the state’s rules of policing, and mandated that officers wear body cameras. In March, New York City moved to make it easier for citizens to sue officers. This month, the Maryland legislature — which decades ago became the first to adopt a Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights — became the first to do away with it.
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US inflation isn’t coming – it’s already there
Apr 22, 2021 04:09Real US consumer price inflation is running at about 4% a year, well above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target and far higher than the 2.7% year-on-year increase reported for April and reflected in the yields of short-term inflation-indexed US Treasury securities. That’s due to a quirk of US inflation measurement, which includes home price inflation with a one- to two-year lag.
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We can finally breathe: Floyd supporters react to guilty verdict
Apr 22, 2021 04:01A US jury has found former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin guilty of third-degree murder in the May 2020 death of George Floyd. The verdict was read in Hennepin County court on Tuesday April 20, as Black Lives Matter activists hit the streets to protest rampant police brutality in the United States. Chauvin was found guilty of all the three criminal counts he was facing.
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Biden's drone wars
Apr 21, 2021 12:27Talk of peace in Afghanistan, Yemen, the streets of the U.S., is not coherent while waging wars with drones.
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Health advocates urge Facebook to scrap plan to build Instagram for kids 12 and under
Apr 21, 2021 12:26Facebook and Instagram have zero credibility and have proven time and time again that their priority is profiting off their manipulative and addictive tactics to keep users scrolling.
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Derek Chauvin jury begins deliberations as America braces for verdict
Apr 21, 2021 12:20The Derek Chauvin murder trial heard closing arguments on Monday (19 Apr 2021) before the jury began considering a verdict over the death of George Floyd that is anxiously awaited by millions of Americans.
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Florida governor says Biden created 'catastrophe' at US border by scrapping Trump's policies
Apr 21, 2021 04:57A Republican representative from Kansas's 1st congressional district wrote on twitter that "migrant children have been traumatized and been taken advantage of by Mexican cartels, adding, “These cartels are making hundreds of millions of dollars every day by exploiting children. Under the Biden Administration, cartels are the winners, and innocent children are the losers.”