“No one is above the law,” the New York Democrat asserted. “For two decades, Justice Thomas failed to report millions in gifts.” A day after several House Democrats urged U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign following fresh reporting on undisclosed luxury vacations he accepted from wealthy Republican donors, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday led a letter calling on the Department of Justice to […]
“Anyone surprised by this, at this point, can only be a willful denier of what Black people have said—and continue to say—about the broken culture of policing in America.” Six former Mississippi sheriff’s deputies from a self-described “Goon Squad” pleaded guilty Thursday to subjecting two Black men to racialized torture and shooting one of the […]
“Today is another day of Michigan values holding strong against lies about our elections,” said one campaigner. Government ethics advocates on Tuesday welcomed the indictment of former Michigan attorney general candidate Matt DePerno and ex-state Rep. Daire Rendon, Republicans who prosecutors say illegally tampered with voting equipment as part of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn […]
The former Russian president and current deputy Security Council chair warned of “global nuclear fire” should Ukraine take back regions illegally annexed by Moscow. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the current deputy chair of the nation’s Security Council, threatened to wage nuclear war if Ukraine’s counteroffensive to repel Russian invaders and reclaim territories they occupy […]