The White House escalates its defense of reproductive rights in this year’s election. Harris’ trip to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area is part of a nationwide tour she began in January
‘I refuse to quit,’ Haley told a small collection of supporters gathered in South Carolina in a speech outlining her rationale for staying in. ‘On Sunday, I’ll still be running for president. I’m not going anywhere’, she said
The pigs are crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine and are spreading out of control
Biden’s focus on the state comes just five days after Dean Phillips of Minnesota announced he was running for president, becoming the party’s first elected official to challenge Biden in the 2024 primary
While Phillips is unlikely to beat President Joe Biden, a run would offer a symbolic challenge trying to project the idea that there is no reason to doubt the president’s electability
Democrats in both states won full control of their state governments last year and have already passed gun safety packages, expanded voting rights, free meals for all students, and increased protections for abortion rights and LGBTQ+ people
Former officer Tou Thao testified previously that he merely served as a ‘human traffic cone’ when holding back bystanders as former officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck as the Black man pleaded for his life in 2020
Wisconsin became the last of 20 states to drop out of the two lawsuits, which were rendered all but moot when President Joe Biden issued an executive order in 2021 that halted wall construction
The move comes after the Minnesota Supreme Court without comment denied Chauvin’s petition to hear his case, letting the former police officer’s conviction and 22-and-a-half-year sentence stand
A National Weather Service meteorologist says fires in northern Quebec and low pressure over the eastern Great Lakes are sending smoke to Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois
Irish law professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin called the American government’s use of torture against them ‘a betrayal’ of the rights of victims and survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States to justice
The sweeping two-year civil rights investigation concluded that systemic problems in the Minneapolis Police Department ‘made what happened to George Floyd possible,’ according to the DOJ
Along with a few other cities, Minneapolis has issued bans on chokeholds and neck restraints, and restrictions on no-knock warrants. But activist calls to defund the police, and to hold officers accountable have mostly failed
Video posted on social media showed the disturbance began after supporters of Minneapolis Council Member Aisha Chughtai took the stage, which caused an uproar among supporters of her challenger, Nasri Warsame
The proposals include a “red flag law” that would allow authorities to ask courts for “extreme risk protection orders” to temporarily take guns away from people deemed to be an imminent threat to others or themselves
Tou Thao, who already had been convicted in federal court of violating Floyd’s civil rights, was last of the four former officers facing judgment in state court for the brutal killing
Juul says it has now settled with 48 states and territories, providing over $1 billion to participating states to combat underage use and develop cessation programs