April 26, 2021

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2020/07/04: A participant holding an End Qualified Immunity sign at the protest. Thousands of New Yorkers joined the Coalition to Honor Black and Indigenous Activists at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, for a massive protest march called Confronting July 4th: A March to Honor Black and Indigenous Activists, demanding as well justice for all victims of police brutality, making a loud call to defund the NYPD and invest in communities. The march ended in a rally and celebration at Prospect Park. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Politics

States tackling ‘qualified immunity’ for police as Congress squabbles over the issue

Published on April 26, 2021

By Emma Tucker The fight in Congress to reform how the nation’s police officers go about their jobs has reinvigorated a discussion over so-called “qualified immunity,” a controversial federal doctrine that protects officers accused of violating the Constitution while on duty. While abolishing the more than 50-year-old doctrine remains one of the main sticking points

Dr. Melisha Cumberland is given the the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine twenty-one days after receiving the first shot from RN Valerie Massaro of Hartford HealthCare, at the Hartford Convention Center in Hartford, Connecticut on January 4, 2021. - The vaccine is being given to First Responders currently and front line workers at the Hartford Convention Center, where a vaccine distribution clinic has been set up. Hartford Health Care is currently running ten vaccinations centers with an eleventh planning to open next week and a total capacity to vaccinate 2000 people a day. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

National News

US Covid-19 vaccination efforts may start to slow now, official says. Here’s why

Published on April 26, 2021

By Christina Maxouris Covid-19 vaccination efforts may begin to slow down as more Americans get vaccinated, one US official told CNN on Sunday. More than 42% of the United States population has received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Roughly 28.5% of the