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Month: April 2021

Clyburn says ‘we’ve got to have police officers’ after Tlaib calls for ‘no more policing’

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn on Tuesday stressed that the US has “got to have police officers” after Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a fellow Democrat, called for “no more policing, incarceration, and militarization” in the wake of Daunte Wright’s fatal encounter with police in Minnesota. “This is not about policing. This is not about training.

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Primera condena por la muerte de Javier Ordóñez en Colombia: 20 años de prisión a patrullero de la Policía Nacional

(CNN Español) –– El patrullero de la Policía Nacional de Colombia Juan Camilo Lloreda Cubillos fue sentenciado a 20 años de prisión y una multa equivalente a 1.500 salarios mínimos mensuales (unos US$ 370.500) por la muerte de Javier Ordóñez, estudiante de derecho, el 9 de septiembre en el contexto de un operativo policial en

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Two suspects arrested in the disappearance of Kristin Smart, San Luis Obispo County sheriff says

Two men were arrested Tuesday morning in connection with the disappearance of Kristin Smart, the California college student who vanished in 1996, San Luis Obispo (SLO) County Sheriff Ian Parkinson said at a news conference. Authorities have not found Smart’s body, Parkinson said, but they have come across forensic physical evidence that they “believe it

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New York Times: Matt Gaetz associate has been cooperating with Justice Department since last year

Joel Greenberg, a central figure in the ongoing investigation into Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, has been providing information to investigators since last year about Gaetz’s activities, among other topics, two people briefed on the matter told The New York Times. Greenberg started speaking with investigators when he realized it was his only path to

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What’s happening in Myanmar and what the Biden administration is trying to do about it

The US policy on the Myanmar military’s crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators has been bipartisan — but that hasn’t helped stop the conflict in the Southeast Asian nation. At a time of rare bipartisan action, the Biden administration’s position on Myanmar’s violence won praise from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. “Their instincts are good,” the

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