By Raja Razek, The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Thursday that voters in Minneapolis may decide on abolishing the police department in the upcoming municipal elections. The measure, if approved, would amend the city charter to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new
By Ariane de Vogue, On the verge of a new term in which the Supreme Court will wade back into the culture wars, Justice Clarence Thomas reflected Thursday on the role of the judiciary and warned against judges weighing in on controversial issues that
By Emma Tucker, The Justice Department announcement Tuesday that federal law enforcement officers will be banned from using neck restraints during arrests and using no-knock entries while executing warrants except in rare cases is part of an ongoing focus on police accountability at local,
By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Linh Tran, Sahar Akbarzai and Mirna Alsharif, Students in a southern Pennsylvania school district are battling the latest example of panic spreading over how history and race are taught in schools across the US. “I don’t think a moral
 By Kara Alaimo Olympic gymnasts Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman and former college champion Maggie Nichols on Wednesday offered devastating testimony, sometimes through their tears, to the Senate Judiciary Committee about how USA Gymnastics, their sport’s governing body, and the FBI,
By Jill Martin, A major sports broadcasting barrier has been broken. Lisa Byington has been hired by the defending NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks as the team’s television play-by-play announcer for games on Bally Sports Wisconsin, the Bucks announced Wednesday. The move makes
By Sara Murray, Pennsylvania Senate Republicans voted Wednesday to subpoena the Pennsylvania Department of State for millions of voters’ personal information and voting histories as they launch a review that appears designed to relitigate the 2020 presidential election. The Pennsylvania Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee
By Byron Dobson Florida A&M University moved up 13 slots â from 117 to 104 â among the nationâs top national public universities, according to U.S. News & World Reportâs âBest Colleges 2022â guidebook released Monday. The landing places FAMU as the
By Jessica Floyd, âIf we are to invest in the strength of our nation we must invest in our HBCUs,â said Vice President Harris on Friday at the Home by the Sea campus. âHBCUs are not only competing but theyâre leading,â Vice
By Manu Raju and Ted Barrett, Democratic leaders are actively discussing attaching an increase to the national debt limit onto a must-pass spending bill to keep the government open, setting up an end-of-the-month partisan standoff with Republicans on the eve of a key deadline to
