A peaceful protest against police brutality and systemic racism in Belleville ended with a protester going to the hospital today. J.D. Nixon, whose group Empire 13 organized and led the protest, says that about 40 people marched through Belleville to protest the police violence that killed Tyre Nichols in Memphis and all the other Black lives lost to state-sanctioned violence.
Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01) was selected to serve on the House Judiciary Committee in the 118th Congress. The House Judiciary Committee is the second oldest standing committee in Congress; its jurisdiction includes constitutional rights and civil liberties, oversight of the…
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, while Theresa May was repeating her demands that tech companies control more speech on social media, we hosted a series of posts about content moderation surrounding an event at Santa Clara University, with essays by Eric Goldman, Mike Godwin, Kate Klonick, and more. A UK appeals court said […]
The balloon, which the Pentagon said was being used by China for surveillance, was shot down by a U.S. aircraft at around 2:05 p.m. EST, a military intelligence source told NewsNation.
On Friday I asked how often the Chinese send spy balloons our way. Today I get an answer: Administration officials said Friday there have been other similar incidents of Chinese spy balloons, with one saying it happened twice during the Trump administration but was never made public. ....Craig Singleton, a senior fellow at the Foundation ...continue reading "Three things you desperately wanted to know about the spy balloon"