GOP councilman on calls to remove NYC mayor as violent crime spikes

Rep. Lee Zeldin calls for New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio to be removed from office as the state experiences a spike in shootings; reaction and analysis from New York City council member Joe Borelli.

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COVID-19 Cuts a Lethal Path Through San Quentin’s Death Row

By Dan Morain, KHNThe old men live in cramped spaces and breathe the same ventilated air. Many are frail, laboring with heart disease, liver and prostate cancer, tuberculosis, dementia. And now, with the coronavirus advancing through their ranks, they are falling one after the next.This is not a nursing home, not in any traditional sense. It is California’s...

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Elon Musk already reconsidering his endorsement of Kanye West for president

What goes up must come down. And like his SpaceX rockets, Elon Musk's support of Kanye West for president appears to have fallen back to Earth.Musk's new-found scepticism came after West's first interview as a presidential candidate in Forbes revealed plans to run the White House like Wakanda, which would assume the fictional home of Black Panther was...

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U.S. forecaster says La Niña expected to develop in fall 2020

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Supreme Court deals Trump a defeat, upholding demand for his tax returns

President Trump claimed he had immunity from subpoenas that required his accountants to turn over his financial records to Congress and a grand jury.

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Gen. Milley addresses Department of Defense's role in civilian law enforcement

Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley delivers opening statement to the House Armed Services Committee.

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Medical experts: Floyd's speech didn't mean he could breathe

As George Floyd repeatedly pleaded “I can’t breathe” to police officers holding him down on a Minneapolis street corner, some of the officers responded by pointing out he was able to speak. One told Floyd it takes “a lot of oxygen” to talk, while another told angry bystanders that Floyd was “talking, so he can breathe.” “The ability to speak does...

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Germany seizes server hosting pilfered US police files

At the behest of the U.S. government, German authorities have seized a computer server that hosted a huge cache of files from scores of U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies obtained in a Houston data breach last month. The server was being used by a WikiLeaks-like data transparency collective called Distributed Denial of Secrets to...

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On the Next Stimulus, Democrats Have to Stand Up and Stop Trump’s Fleecing of America

On Monday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin finally bowed to growing national outrage around the White House’s sketchy accounting for emergency COVID-19 relief funds connected to Donald Trump’s controversial $660 billion Paycheck Protection Program. Trump and company hailed the move as another sign of the administration’s transparency, but close readers...

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Pharmacy executives tied to deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak lose appeals

A federal appeals court on Thursday cleared the way for prosecutors to seek longer prison sentences for a founder and supervisory pharmacist of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose tainted drugs sparked a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston upheld the racketeering and fraud convictions of...

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