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Jun 09 2020
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George Floyd Will Be Laid to Rest in Hometown of Houston After Private Memorial Service
George Floyd is being laid to rest next to his mother today at Houston Memorial Gardens in Pearland, Texas.
His body arrived in Houston on Saturday at 9:40 p.m. and was taken to Fort Bend Memorial Planning Center by the Houston Police Department.
Floyd, 46, died on May 25 in Minneapolis while being held down by a white police officer. Video from a bystander taken outside a local
CBNJun 09 2020
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Biden, Democrats seek to shut down calls to defund police
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are quickly shutting down calls to defund police departments as the party grapples with how to respond to demands for reforms in the wake of George Floyd's death.
The idea is splintering black activists and some prominent progressive lawmakers from Biden and top congressional Democrats while
The HillJun 09 2020
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Democrats introduce sweeping police reform package in response to nationwide protests
Democrats unveiled Monday a sprawling package of proposals aimed at addressing calls for police reform from across the political spectrum, including mandates for anti-bias training, national use-of-force standards and changes to make it easier to sue officers for misconduct — all of which drew fire from law enforcement officials.
Tackling what activists describe as decades-old racism
Washington TimesJul 14 2020
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US carries out first federal execution in 17 years
The U.S. government carried out the first federal execution in nearly two decades on Tuesday.
Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, died by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
“I didn’t do it,” Lee said just before he was executed, according to the Associated Press. “I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I’m not a murderer. ... You’re killing an innocent man.”
Washington ExaminerApr 29 2020
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Positive Test Rates For COVID-19 Are As High As 87% At Some Michigan Prisons
Michigan’s aging prisoners serve the final years of life sentences at the state’s Lakeland Correctional Facility. Inmates have dubbed it the “gangster retirement home,” a place where many have chronic health issues and are vulnerable to COVID-19.
The coronavirus has swept through Lakeland unabated, three inmates told HuffPost. At least 13 men have died and more than 50 have been
HuffPostMay 23 2015
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E-mails show how Benghazi derailed Hillary Clinton's legacy at State
A top State Department official boasted of Hillary Clinton's "leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country's Libya policy from start to finish" a little more than a year before the attack that killed four Americans at a US compound in Benghazi.
That assessment, offered up in an email from Clinton Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan to fellow State Department aides Cheryl Mills and
VoxJun 08 2020
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Democrats’ Calls to Defund the Police Are a Losing Bet at the Polls
Democratic lawmakers, operatives, and commentators are calling for the defunding or abolition of America's police departments in the wake of officer Derek Chauvin's killing of unarmed black man George Floyd.
While the proposal is popular among the party's progressive activist wing and on Twitter, it faces a hard wall of resistance among the wider public. A recent YouGov poll showed that
Washington Free BeaconJul 13 2016
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Obama defends Black Lives Matter protests at police memorial in Dallas
President Obama defended the Black Lives Matter movement Tuesday at a memorial service for five slain Dallas police officers, saying bigotry remains a problem in police departments across the U.S.
Washington TimesJul 13 2020
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China announces sanctions against Rubio, Cruz over Uighur Muslims
China on Monday announced sanctions against a number of U.S. officials, including Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, in retaliation for legislation intended to punish senior Chinese officials over Beijing's alleged treatment of minority Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, according to multiple reports.
Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the sanctions against the U.S. officials
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