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BOSTON - Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a rule that would h...

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Monday blasted the City Council's plan to cut the police department's budget by 50% and instead proposed transferring a list of functions like the 911 call center and parking enforcement out of the agency's budget. “The community has made clear, they want us

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Monday blasted the City Council's plan to cut the police department's budget by 50% and instead proposed transferring a ...

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced plans on Monday to move certain functions away from the police department along with a proposed $76 million cut to its budget while criticizing a proposal backed by elected leaders to defund the police force by half. 

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is blasting the City Council's plan to cut the police department’s budget by 50% and instead proposed transferring a list of functions out of the police budget

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Monday blasted the City Council's plan to cut the police department's budget by 50% and instead proposed transferring a list of functions like the 911 Call Center and parking enforcement out of the agency's budget.

Defunding the police is fast becoming a wedge issue in the upcoming presidential elections. To defund the police invites us to rethink the appeal of more police accountability and the role of budgets in social change.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Monday blasted the City Council's plan to cut the police department's budget by 50% and instead proposed transferring a list of functions like the 911 call center and parking enforcement out of the agency's budget.

Officials and police reform activists in Los Angeles disagree on how to reform the L.A. Police Department.

Seattle police chief Carmen Best announced her resignation Monday after city council slashed the department's budget, to include her salary.

Juneteenth celebrates only the illusion that Black people were freed after the Civil War, plus more from the week in Opinion.

Seattle police chief Carmen Best announced her resignation Monday after city council slashed the department's budget, to include her salary.

The Seattle City Council is making good on its promise to begin dismantling the Seattle Police Department (SPD).

The Budget Protest League was a British pressure group formed in June 1909 and led by Walter Long to oppose David Lloyd George's "People's Budget" outside of Parliament.

Vic Toews seeks answers on how board can absolve 'someone who committed such horrific crimes that remain shocking to all Canadians'

THN stripped Graham James of the award we had given him in 1989.

Deserves much worse.

Theo Fleury admits he was sexually abused by junior coach (and convicted sex offender) Graham James while he was a junior player, and attributes that to driving him to alcohol and drugs during his NHL career.

He assaulted Todd Holt 400 times and Theo Fleury 150 times

A key L.A. City Council committee agreed to cut the LAPD budget by more than $133 million, slashing police overtime pay and taking the size of the force well below 10,000 officers.

Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairs Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva and Keith Ellison today released the following statement on the president’s jobs speech:

The “People’s Budget” has been approved and its chief architect couldn’t be happier.

Final conditions for the ex-junior hockey coach's bail to be set next week

Lance Bass celebrated his first wedding anniversary with a sweet wedding video.

1. Like Christmas, the Budget comes but once a year. The likelihood of receiving a gift is, however, considerably smaller.

The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday voted to slash the budget for the city's police force and reduce staffing to levels reportedly unseen since 2008.

"We applaud the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) for taking real leadership this week," stated Brian Miller, executive director of United for a Fair Economy (UFE). "The CPC's letter outlines a truly courageous budget framework that does what Congress has thus far been unwilling to do – raise taxes on the rich." "It's hard to imagine what is going through the mind of Rep.

Some shocking news was made public on Friday concerning former professional hockey player Theoren Fleury. This 41 year-old who recently called it quits after being cut from the Calgary Flames ...

Changes already popular with Americans could make us healthier, wiser, and less indebted.

Ex-Hockey coach pleads guilty to sexual assault

Money spent on the military and federal debt interest can be redirected to education and job creation. Here's how

Greg Gilhooly had it all in life - hockey talent, education, career, family - except he didn't. His life was burdened by a darkness in his soul, planted by a sexual predator when he was an impressionable youth

Former junior hockey coach and convicted sex offender Graham James has pleaded guilty to sexual assaults involving two of his former players, including NHL star Theoren Fleury.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) People’s Budget—the strongest rebuke to the Robin Hood in reverse “Ryan Budget” that was passed by the best Republican House Citizens United can buy—is receiving some well deserved national attention as the budget debate now moves to the Senate.

After heroic feats of arithmetic and a your-guess-is-as-good-as-mine interpretation of opaque rules and guidelines, millions of Americans will file their taxes by this Monday, April 15th. Then there’s the bad news.

Despite a weak economic recovery and persistent, unacceptably high unemployment, Washington is prematurely pivoting from job creation to deficit reduction. Worse yet, many of the budget proposals flooding Washington are nothing but reverse Robin Hood plans to redistribute wealth from working families to the most privileged among us.

Just doing what’s popular would make us healthier, wealthier, wiser and less indebted.

The new edition of the Congressional Progressive Caucus's "People's Budget" may be the most important ever.

[...] it preserves the rest of the Bush tax cuts — cuts that were originally sold as a way to dispose of a large budget surplus. [...] it still relies heavily on spending cuts, even as it falls short of actually balancing the budget. [...] why isn't someone offering a proposal reflecting the reality that the Bush tax cuts were a huge mistake, and suggesting that increased revenue play a major role in deficit reduction? [...] someone is — and I'll get to that in a moment. [...] though, le

Graham James pleads guilty to sexual assaults involving two of his former players, including NHL star Theoren Fleury

Last week's collapse of the Senate's "Gang of Six" debt-reduction talks, and talk of a "Gang of Five," will deepen the public's distaste for the process and substance of the budget debates in Washington. Voters across the country resent being left out of these increasingly elite deliberations.

This is the year for the People’s Budget.

Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), and Rep. Michael Honda, the CPC Budget Taskforce Chairman and principal author of the CPC 2013 Budget, today released their full alternative budget, the Budget for All. The CPC budget calls for no cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security benefits, astark contrast to the House Republican cuts-only scheme that fails to balance the budget.

Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), and Rep. Michael Honda, the CPC Budget Taskforce Chairman and principal author of the CPC 2013 Budget, today announced the CPC’s alternative budget, the Budget for All. The CPC budget calls for a no cuts policy for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits, in stark contrast to the House Republican cuts-only scheme that fails to balance our budget.

The House next week is likely to consider a number of alternate budget proposals for the 2012 fiscal year in addition to the plan that Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) unveiled Tuesday, including a House Democratic leadership proposal, a Congressional Progressive Caucus proposal and a plan put forth by the conservative Republican Study Committee.

NHL star Theoren Fleury, one of the complainants, criticizes justice system's handling of case

You’ve heard people ask, “How come they can come up with a couple trillion dollars to invade Iraq, or hundreds of billions for corporate tax cuts, but say we’re broke when we need to fix our infrastructure so pipes don’t contaminate children with lead poisoning?”

The budget proposal released on April 5 by Rep. Paul Ryan (R.-Wisc.) includes tax cuts for the wealthy, tax hikes for the middle class, drastic cuts in social spending and a radical restructuring of Medicare that would shift most of the cost of healthcare to seniors.

Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Co-Chairs Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN), and CPC First-Vice Chair Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) today released the Progressive Caucus’ budget for fiscal year 2017, called The People’s Budget: Prosperity Not Austerity; Invest in America.

Thanks to the corporate media, you probably know all about Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan.

As I mentioned in an op-ed in The Hill earlier this week, I have been working with my Congressional Progressive Caucus colleagues, economists and tax policy experts to develop a budget that eliminates the deficit (which Ryan fails to do), puts America to work building a competitive economy, invests in our schools, brings the troops home, protects social security and represents

Three female cops share their real life experience about what it's like to be a woman in law enforcement.

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday released a scathing report in response to a series of deadly police shootings that pointed to patterns of excessive force by the Albuquerque Police Department, serious constitutional violations and a lack of training and oversight of its officers.

On what is being dubbed "Brown Friday," social justice and left-wing activists -- including Occupy members -- are using the Ferguson's grand jury's |

Terminating officers before their trials is unusual, but Fort Worth Police Chief Ralph Mendoza decided to fire officers Craig Murrah and David Babb based on the merits of both cases, said police Lt. Dean Sullivan. Richard Carter and Craig Driskell, attorneys with the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas who are representing the fired officers' appeals, said the firings could have an impact on whether they get a fair trial. According to the letter filed with the Civil Service Commissi

Zev Yaroslavsky's nearly four decades in political office and five terms as a Los Angeles County supervisor are drawing to a close due to term limits.

The letter came as the city remains in negotiations with the police union over the parameters of equipping officers with body cameras -- one of the steps the city can take to return to compliance with its 2014 settlement with the federal government over police use of excessive force. A federal judge last week urged lawyers from the city, Justice Department, police union and two community-based groups to return to mediation to agree on a policy governing use of the cameras.

Police have arrested hundreds in protests over the acquittal of a white officer who killed an unarmed black man.

Militarization of police forces has become the latest buzz phrase for politicians, pundits, and, it seems, everybody else. By now everybody in America, |

LOS ANGELES (AP) — From a broken bone to a fatal shooting, all 800 police departments in California must begin using a new online tool launched Thursday to report and...

There are a lot of questions surrounding the death of unarmed Jamar Clark at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department last week, which have drawn over a week of protests in the city. Last night, five people were shot during a Black Lives Matter protest in response to his death. Local organizers have blamed a group of white supremacists who showed up to the rally, "as they do most nights." Police are searching for three white male suspects, they announced.

A former Oath Keepers spokesperson now says the militia group's rhetoric can create the kind of confrontations that led to the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.

New Orleans federal jury in a verdict convicted five current and former police officers on Friday of federal civil rights charges related to deadly shootings for post Hurricane Katrina.

Since a St. Louis, Missouri prosecutor and Grand Jury have determined that Police Officer Darren Wilson killing unarmed teenager Michael Brown did not merit a trial, I have been busy tweeting…

Paris (AFP) – The disproportionately high rate at which unarmed black people die at the hands of police in the United States has a corrosive impact

NEW YORK (AP) Eric Adams, the winner of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, vowed Wednesday to guide the city to a new era of safety...

Boeing's Starliner crew shakeup gets a little more clear as we learn one of the reasons why commander Chris Ferguson stepped down. The astronaut had family commitments in 2021, including his daughter's wedding.

Plus: a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air remake is reportedly in the works, Gabrielle Union will lend her voice in a Lion King spin-off and more!

Tracing the footsteps of civil rights leaders who made his journey to the White House possible, President Barack Obama will on Saturday visit Selma, Alabama to enlist a new generation in their fight.America's first black president will mark the 50th anniversary of the...

The family of a black man who died after he was repeatedly shocked with a Taser last year filed a federal lawsuit Friday against San Mateo County and five sheriff's deputies involved in the fatal arrest, which started when authorities sought to stop the man for jaywalking on a busy street in Millbrae

No additional Chicago police officers face indictment for their handling of Laquan McDonald’s fatal shooting, the Cook County special prosecutor says.

There have been times when MLS All-Star Games have held about as much intrigue as a grass-growing contest. This year's contest is not one of them, writes Jeff Carlisle.

Last Thursday, while carrying out an arrest in Brooklyn, federal immigration agents shot a tourist in the face and then barred the tourist’s mother and lawyers from talking to him while he recovered at Maimonides Hospital. They were reunited only after the consul general of his country intervened.

A Louisiana police officer shot and killed a man following a confrontation outside a Baton Rouge convenience store, authorities said.

Do it for Michael Brown and so many others. It's time to act on this moment of consensus and enact reform

When the coronavirus ravaged Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis defiantly bucked mask mandates. He later cracked down on protesters advocating racial justice, blasted President Biden on immigration, jumped into the fight over transgender athletes and signed sweeping legislation to toughen voting rules. But after a deadly building collapse, the Republican governor is largely hitting pause on the culture wars.

Investigators of a shooting by a white police officer that left a Black man, Jacob Blake Jr., paralyzed and the town of Kenosha, Wisconsin, torn by civil strife found a knife belonging to Blake at the scene of the confrontation, the state attorney general said on Wednesday.

Minnesota’s attorney general, in an exclusive interview with The Nation, says we must challenge the social order that maintains an unjust status quo.

What's happening now in Missouri isn't new, and the changing face of America is making it much more common

From pop-up food pantries to clean-up crews, Minneapolis residents unite to support each other and honour George Floyd.

Chicagos police review board says it has completed its investigation into the shooting death of 13-year-old Adam Toledo last year and delivered its report to Police Superintendent David Brown

Committee investigates police accountability in Duterte’s drug war, with a focus on the fatal shooting of teenager.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice was able to offer the lowest price because it...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) A timeline of key events that began with George Floyd's arrest on May 25, 2020, by four police officers in Minneapolis: May 25 Minneapolis police officers...

US Treasury accuses two UAE based firms of providing material support to Iran’s Mahan Air.

Chicago's Civilian Office of Police Accountability released videos and documents related to the death of Irene Chavez, a woman who died while in police custody.

African-American aldermen on Wednesday called for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to remove clauses in the city's police contract that they contend foster racist misconduct in the Chicago Police Department, an assertion the police union swiftly rejected.

EGYPT'S BEST-KNOWN Islamic cleric, Sheikh Mohamed Mutwali Sharawi, got his chance of stardom at the age of 59, in the last year of President Nasser's rule, when he took part in the country's first ever Islamic television religious discussion programme. Nour ala Nour ("Light upon Light") was presented by Ahmad Farrag, a handsome but failed cinema actor who had gone on to make a career in religious programmes. Within a few years Sharawi had upstaged Farrag and become the B

(Phys.org)—The large amount of waste heat produced by power plants and automobile engines can be converted into electricity due to the thermoelectric effect, a physics effect that converts temperature differences into electrical energy. Now in a new study, researchers have confirmed theoretical predictions that two-dimensional (2D) materials—those that are as thin as a single nanometer—exhibit a significantly higher thermoelectric effect than three-dimensional (3D) materials, which are typ

Chicago's interim police superintendent on Wednesday stripped two officers of their police powers pending the outcome of the investigation into their roles in the non-fatal shooting of an unarmed suspect inside of a downtown train station last week. Superintendent Charlie Beck made the decision

A 27-year-old man was fatally wounded Friday afternoon, and eight other people were shot, including a person who was injured in a police- involved shooting on the Near West Side, Chicago police said. No police officers were injured in the shooting that happened shortly after 1 a.m. Christmas morning in the University Village/Little Italy neighborhood in the 1300 block of West Hastings Avenue. ...

Chicago aldermen are content to let Mayor Rahm Emanuel do the heavy lifting on police reforms. That's a cop-out.

The bill proposes to send police officers who are found to have shot an unarmed person to a mandatory 15-year prison sentence.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors suspended a policy allowing police to deploylethal, remote-controlled robotsin emergency situations.

While PC gaming has spearheaded the way in terms of pushing new tech developments in 3D gaming, 3D console gaming is sure to come of age in 2011, as more of us invest in new 3D TVs to play the latest PS3 and Xbox 360 games on.

If ratified, the contract would provide a major boost to Mayor Jenny Durkan and newly confirmed Police Chief Carmen Best as they seek to steer the Police Department through what they hope will be the final stage of federally mandated reforms to address excessive use of force and biased policing.

Local leaders say the past six weeks have shown that as much as many residents legitimately fear and distrust the police, the solution must be better policing, not less.

Two dimensional (2D) materials consist of one to a few atomic layers, where the intra-layer atoms are chemically bonded and the atomic layers are weakly bonded. The high bonding anisotropicity in 2D materials make their growth on a substrate substantially different from the conventional thin film growth. Here, we proposed a general theoretical framework for the epitaxial growth of a 2D material on an arbitrary substrate. Our extensive density functional theory (DFT) calculations show that the pr

It is the first fatal officer-involved shooting by the Boise Police Department this year.

In a first for France, six non-governmental organisations launched a class-action lawsuit on Wednesday to press the French government into tacklingsystemic discrimination by police officers carrying

Officers fired at the woman after she threw an object police say was a gun. The woman is at Harborview Medical Center.

Why Chicago's Police Force Is A Godawful Train Wreck, Part 192: A Staggering Lack of Accountability.

With Tyre Nichols' parents in attendance, Biden urged Congress to 'do something' about police violence. Experts say he shows compassion but not urgency on the issue.

Mayor Wheeler’s funding proposal is part of the broader strategy of the Biden administration and Democratic Party to increase funding to police departments in the name of racial justice, reform and public safety.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Moments after former officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder in George Floyd's death, copies of the original Minneapolis police statement began recirculating on social media. It...

The horrific images of Alton Sterling being shot and killed in Baton Rouge, La., didn’t come from a police body-worn camera.

Vote to still to come on whether to repeal Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights.

The liberal Texas city is in the midst of a policing crisis with over 300 vacancies and cops quitting because they feel disrespected, multiple sources tell The Post.