The officers voted to leave the unit, known as the Rapid Response Team, hours after one of its members was charged with assaulting a woman at an Oregon protest in August. Police officers in Portland, Ore., during a protest in August. Credit…David Ryder for The New York Times A group of about 50 police officers…
Dr. Anthony Fauci has come under fire since the release of his emails from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo by Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images Dr. Anthony Fauci lashed out Wednesday at critics who have called for his firing — saying the salvos launched at him are “attacks on science.” “It’s very dangerous,” Fauci told MSNBC. “A…
U.S. consumer prices increased in May at the fastest annual rate in nearly 13 years as the economic comeback from COVID-19 lockdowns continues to build momentum. The Labor Department said Thursday that the consumer price index in May rose 5% year over year, hotter than the 4.7% increase that was anticipated. The reading was above last month’s 4.2%…
Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz (r) welcoming Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (c) at a ceremony in Tel Aviv, April 11, 2021. (Flash90/Avshalom Sassoni) Gantz is expected to request a $1 billion budget for replenishing the Iron Dome following Operation Guardian of the Walls. Defense Minister Benny Gantz was slated Wednesday to travel to the United…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Wearing masks and gloves as a precaution against coronavirus is ineffective, unnecessary for the vast majority of people, and may even spread infections faster, experts said Tuesday. While near-total lockdowns have been imposed in Italy, Spain and now France, the World Health Organization’s advice has remained unchanged since the start of…
Americans are at a critical point of choosing between communism and the freedoms of a representative federal democracy that has made us the most prosperous, generous, strongest, freest, and, yes, fairest nation on Earth. For years, we’ve been on a slow steady path toward the same communist society as China, Russia, North Korea, Cuba, and…
(Image credit: Getty Images) The latest research suggests that the news can shape us in surprising ways – from our perception of risk to the content of our dreams to our chances of having a heart attack. Alison Holman was working on a fairly ordinary study of mental health across the United States. Then tragedy…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider gutting the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, taking up Mississippi’s bid to revive a Republican-backed state law that bans the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy. By hearing the case in their next term, which starts in October and ends in June…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear oral argument in Caniglia v. Strom, a case that could have sweeping consequences for policing, due process, and mental health, with the Biden Administration and attorneys general from nine states urging the High Court to uphold warrantless gun confiscation. But what would ultimately become a major Fourth Amendment case began with an…