The NAACP Memphis Branch is calling for law enforcement officers and first responders who were involved in the traffic stop that led to Tyre Nichols’ death to be terminated and prosecuted. NAACP Memphis Branch President Van Turner made the comments at a Sunday afternoon press conference two days after the videotape of Nichols’ beating was … Read more
Protesters march in Memphis after video released of Tire Nichols being beaten by police Sign up to our Evening Headlines email for your daily guide to the latest news Sign up to our free US Evening Headlines email The parents of Tire Nichols – RowVaughn Wells and Rodney Wells – have accepted an invitation from … Read more
Editor’s Note: This article contains graphic videos and descriptions of violence. CNN — As protesters gathered across US cities over the weekend following the Memphis police beating that led to the death of 29-year-old Tire Nicholsofficials have said the investigation into the incident will continue amid questions about whether there could be additional charges. The … Read more
Border Patrol agents in new yorkVermont and New Hampshire apprehended more people illegally entering the US from Canada in the past three months than in the previous two years combined, authorities say. Officials in the states, which make up the federal agency’s eastern “Swanton Sector,” saw a 743% increase in apprehensions and encounters between Oct. … Read more
DANA POINT, Calif. — Driving debate at last week’s Republican National Committee meeting there was one big question: Can the official party apparatus truly be neutral in the 2024 GOP presidential primaries? For years, the RNC has been closely tied to former President Donald Trump’s political operation, but in the coming cycle, a number of … Read more
The Manchester community is reacting to a shooting that happened in front of dozens of people early Saturday morning and left a 24-year-old dead. The shooting happened 12:50 am Saturday morning on Old Granite Street. When police arrived, Timothy Pouliot had been shot multiple times after what was some sort of dispute inside The Goat … Read more
Protesters march in Memphis after video released of Tire Nichols being beaten by police Sign up to our Evening Headlines email for your daily guide to the latest news Sign up to our free US Evening Headlines email Donald Trump has described the fatal beating of Tire Nichols as “horrible” and says that it “never … Read more
The Biden administration’s proposal to add a “Middle Eastern or North African” identifier, or MENA, to official documents like the census is the latest progress in a decadeslong fight to secure representation for a historically statistically invisible community. In a Federal Register notice published Friday, the Federal Interagency Technical Working Group on Race and Ethnicity … Read more
A protester steps over discarded anti-abortion signs at the 50th March for Life, in Washington on Jan. 20, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion in June, it declared that it was sending the issue back to the “people and their elected … Read more
A community forum with law enforcement and civic leaders — held Sunday in the Uptown 23rd District following the release of video showing the beating of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police — turned tense when the mother of a teenage boy shot dead by Oklahoma City police confronted Chief Wade Gourley. “It’s … Read more