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An Army second lieutenant was driving his brand new car with his dog in the back seat when the night took a violent turn. Moments later, the Black and Latino driver would be pepper-sprayed, threatened and thrown to the ground in a caught-on-video traffic stop that has sparked outrage across the coun...

April 09, 2021 Conservative economist Michael R. Strain, director of economic policy for the American Enterprise Institute, has been critical of President Joe Bidens expanded child tax credit — which he believes "has the potential to" negatively "change the relationship between the citizen and the state." And other conservative economists share Strains viewpoint. But liberal journalist Jonathan Chait, in an article published by New York Magazine on April 9, lays out some reasons wh...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Following a yearslong push, New York is limiting the use of solitary confinement in state and local correctional facilities and banning the practice altogether for some inmates. The Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act, known as HALT, prevents inmates from being h...

PHILADELPHIA — The family of Walter Wallace Jr., the West Philadelphia man whose fatal shooting by Philadelphia police in October set off days of protests and unrest in the city, filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against the two officers who killed him. The suit, filed in Common Pleas Court, a...

NEW YORK — Families of 9/11 victims will once again read their names out loud to commemorate this year’s 20th anniversary of the World Trade Center attack, a year after the COVID-19 pandemic divided people over how to remember the fallen, organizers said. With coronavirus restrictions easing and mor...

April 09, 2021 Embattled Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was harshly ridiculed on Thursday after allegedly using his public Vemno account to send money to an alleged sex trafficker who then passed on the exact same amount to three young women. "In two late-night Venmo transactions in May 2018, Rep. Matt Gaetz sent his friend, the accused sex trafficker Joel Greenberg, $900. The next morning, over the course of eight minutes, Greenberg used the same app to send three young women varying sums of m...

Paul Fehribach, owner of Big Jones in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood, has wanted to eliminate tipping at his restaurant for years. He didn’t like having the whims of customers determine how much his waitstaff got paid. Even when tips were generous, it felt wrong that the kitchen staff earned m...

Haunted by the two deadly crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets and his agency’s role in approving the plane, veteran Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety engineer Joe Jacobsen is stepping forward publicly to give the victims’ families “a firsthand account of what the truth is.” In a detailed lette...

ALBANY, N.Y. — A former aide accusing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of harassment and asking her questions about her sex life is revealing more details about her encounter — and says she has spoken to other women who endured similar treatment from the governor. Charlotte Bennett sat down for her first ...

Republicans are determined to blame Black Lives Matter and antifa for the Capitol Hill riot. But after Tuesday’s Senate hearing on the insurrection, there’s no doubt that white supremacy was the real culprit. FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed what many of us already knew — that white supremacy...