NEW: 24 dead in Colombia as protests continue. A teen shot after kicking a police officer. A young man bleeding out as protesters shout for help. Police firing on unarmed demonstrators. Helicopters swarming overhead, tanks rolling through neighborhoods.
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“The sixth-grade boy took the loaded handgun from a drawer in his father's bedroom and brought it to school ... The father said he had seen nothing in the boy's behavior to indicate such an incident was possible.”
It’s called “curiosity”... #mnleg https://t.co/74KMer9wj1
UPDATE: According to Hazel Bryant, who said the 15-year-old was her niece, the teen called the police because someone in her house was abusing her. Bryant went on to say police shot her four times https://t.co/7IinLjDzBZ
From WH pool: the President & VP watched the verdict w/ staff in the Private Dining Room.
Following the announcement of the verdict, the President spoke with Governor Tim Walz. The President, the Vice President, & the First Lady spoke with Philonise Floyd from the Oval Office.
The new Quinnipiac Poll shows something that’s popped up in other surveys: Biden’s infrastructure plan becomes MORE popular after voters are told it’s paid for with corporate tax hikes.
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—We spend $107,575,000,000 more on police than on public housing.
—15 states spend $27,000 more per person in prison than they do per student.
How about instead of pouring more funds into our brutal systems of policing and mass incarceration, we invest in communities?
Young people: New variant of COVID threatens you. P1, which has wrecked Brazil & BC , has highest impact on young people (predictable given impact of poor mitigation efforts on replication)They are filling ICUs, NOT elderly. Now spreading in USA. This isnt COVID of last year.
I sued the Daily Mail for their publication of my nonconsensual nude images. Today, we lost in court because a judge - not a jury - thinks revenge porn is free speech. This fight has massive implications for any woman who ever wants to run for office, so quitting isn’t an option.
If you can't find workers because they'd making more on unemployment than at your company, the problem isn't unemployment.
The problem is your poverty wages.
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