Jun 15 WATCH: California attorney general offers police reforms By Associated Press In a news conference Monday, Becerra said the changes are based on recommendations made in January 2019 to reform the Sacramento Police Department. Continue reading
Jun 15 WATCH: Minnesota governor marks 100th anniversary of Duluth lynching By Associated Press Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz marked the 100th anniversary of a painful chapter in Duluth history by visiting a memorial to three black men lynched by a white mob. Continue reading
Jun 15 Blame game breaks out over COVID-19 toll in nursing homes By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press A harrowing blame game with partisan overtones is breaking out over COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents. Older and frail, they represent a tiny slice of the population but a shockingly high proportion of pandemic deaths. Continue reading
Jun 15 WATCH: Family of Rayshard Brooks pleads for justice and change after Atlanta killing By Russ Bynum, Kate Brumback, Associated Press The family of a black man killed in a scuffle with Atlanta police outside a fast food drive-through is pleading for nonviolent protests and policy changes to end future deaths in police custody. Continue reading
Jun 15 U.S. revokes emergency use of malaria drugs to treat coronavirus By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press The Food and Drug Administration said the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are unlikely to be effective in treating the coronavirus. Continue reading
Jun 15 SCOTUS rules LGBTQ people protected from job discrimination By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The court decided by a 6-3 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as Title VII that bars job discrimination because of sex, among other reasons, encompasses bias against LGBT workers. Continue reading
Jun 15 American sentenced to 16 years in Russia on spying charges By Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press The Moscow City Court read out the conviction of Paul Whelan on charges of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum security prison. Continue reading
Jun 15 Poll: Black Americans most likely to know a COVID-19 victim By Kat Stafford, Hannah Fingerhut, Associated Press Eleven percent of African Americans say they were close with someone who has died from the coronavirus, compared with 5% of Americans overall and 4% of white Americans. Continue reading
Jun 14 Trump executive order on police reform expected to include use of force guidelines, misconduct tracker, source says By Yamiche Alcindor Amid nationwide protests, the president's executive order is expected to include the creation of national standards for police use-of-force as well as for tracking police misconduct, according to a civil rights lawyer who plans to be at the signing and… Continue reading
Jun 14 Watch 9:34 Atlanta shooting underscores need for police reforms By PBS NewsHour Residents of Atlanta, and thousands of others around the country and the world, are taking part in daily demonstrations to push for police reforms since the death of George Floyd nearly three weeks ago. But what should that mean and… Continue watching