Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) is comparing “pro-Palestinian” protests to the Black Lives Matter movement. They are alike in more ways than she can express, including that they are both built on myths. Bush is tying the two movements together by claiming that the antisemitic protesters harassing Jewish students on college campuses and expressing support for […]
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review an appeal by a Black Lives Matter activist, allowing the case against him to move forward in the lower courts.
A U.S. court upholds a lawsuit filed against Whole Foods by a former employee claiming she was fired for wearing a Black Lives Matter Mask.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Black Lives Matters organizer DeRay Mckesson, letting stand a lower court’s decision that some critics fear could wind up limiting the First Amendment rights of Americans to organize protests against the government and police. The upshot is that Mckesson’s case will return to a lower court for further review. There were no noted dissents but Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote separately and said that lower courts would be able to take into...
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Black Lives Matter organizer who was held liable by a lower court for a random protester’s attack on a police officer at a protest he organized. In 2016, civil rights activist Deray Mckesson was sued by an unnamed Baton Rouge police officer — "John Doe" — for injuries he sustained during a protest. Doe claimed that an unidentified third party threw a "rock-like" object during the protest and hit him, knocking his teeth out and leaving him...
Live stream of rare Mallorcan Black Vultures, with views of parent birds interacting with a newly hatched chick. On Tuesday 16 April the Mediterranean Wildlife Foundation (FVSM) connected the cameras trained on the clifftop nests in the Serra de Tramuntana to the web. The black vulture (Aegypius monachus) was close to extinction in the 1980s, […]
Democratic voters in Alaska will head to the polls Saturday to cast votes in the state's primary. Biden is the only candidate on the ballot after Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), a primary challenger who was also originally on the ballot, suspended his campaign last month. The Alaska Democratic Party decided as a result to hold
John Nichols A pair of special-election landslides proves that the party is doing something right.
South Carolina will wrap up spring practice on Saturday as it makes its way over to Williams-Brice Stadium for the Garnet & Black Spring Game.
Voter ID can and should be used to prove we live where we say we live, as that location determines our 'jurisdiction.'
Priorities are clearly skewed, and we have to get things back on track before it’s too late.
Special Report: A three-hundred-million pound landmark project for Manchester, set for a high profile launch gig. Then the test event took place The M.E.N. tells the inside story of how the countdown to 'showtime' dramatically stalled.