Rioters in Minneapolis reportedly smashed windows and lit a dumpster on fire Thursday night near a parking garage where an officer fatally shot a suspect wanted for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon earlier. The suspect, accused in a homicide, didn’t follow commands from the U.S. Marshal Service taskforce – made up of […]

President Biden plans to host the family of George Floyd at the White House on Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of Floyd’s death. Floyd, 46, died after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes during an arrest. His May 25, 2020, murder sparked months of protests across the U.S. against […]

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer used funds from an inauguration-related nonprofit to pay for a $27,521 trip to Florida to visit her ailing father in March, her chief of staff clarified Friday. On Wednesday, the governor told reporters she had not used taxpayer funds for the trip and it was not a “gift,” but refused to […]

The number of migrants being fast-tracked for release without formal immigration court notices at the U.S.-Mexico border has reportedly increased by thousands since March to more than 15,300. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from Texas, said the surge of migrants coming to the border has raised the number of arriving people being put on […]

Chicago police Officer Eric Stillman’s actions were “consistent” with the Chicago Police Department’s use-of-force guidelines and with the law, his attorney said Friday night. Stillman is the officer who allegedly fired the shot that killed Adam Toledo, 13, during a foot pursuit late last month. Video footage of the incident was released this week. “We’re […]

A Minnesota business owner says he is willing to pay a fine or even “go to jail” over a 50-by-30-foot “Trump 2020” flag he has on his property that city officials say is violating a local ordinance. “It looks small because it’s 150 feet in the air, but it’s a pretty big flag,” Jay Johnson, […]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday told reporters President Biden’s proposed $2.3 trillion infrastructure package “is not going to get support” from Republicans and said he plans to oppose it “every step of the way.” He said as much as Republicans would like to address infrastructure, “I think the last thing the economy needs […]

A man who calls himself the “QAnon Shaman” and stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 while wearing a horned bearskin headdress, face paint and no shirt, is willing to testify in former President Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial, his lawyer said this week. Jacob Anthony Chansley later regretted being “duped” by the former president after […]

President Trump’s pardon of four Blackwater guards convicted in the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians was “disgraceful,” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., asserted Saturday. “In 2007, four Blackwater contractors opened fire in a crowded intersection in Baghdad, murdering 14 Iraqi civilians,” the progressive “Squad” member, who came to the U.S. from Somalia as a refugee when […]

A magnitude-4.5 earthquake shook Southern California shortly before midnight Friday, with aftershocks measuring 2.1 and 1.6 on the Richter scale following soon after. The U.S. Geological Survey downgraded the quake from a preliminary 4.6. The earthquake, centered just southwest of El Monte in eastern Los Angeles County, was felt as far south as San Diego, […]