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SEATTLE, WA – The man who turned himself in to University of Washington police after allegedly shooting a protester at a demonstration outside a recent Milo Yiannopoulos event on campus is a student, according to a new report. The alleged shooter is 29-year-old senior at the University of Washington, and police have reportedly notified the…
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (Image: AP) Today, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit accusing Charter’s subsidiary, Spectrum, of lying to customers about the internet speeds it advertised and the reliability of its network. Charter’s subsidiary, Spectrum, was previously known as Time Warner Cable until last year, when the name changed…
Sarmad Assali’s relatives, who are all Orthodox Christians, had visas and proof of green cards, the family said By David Chang, Alicia Victoria Lozano and Gabe Gutierrez endclickprintinclude loadInlineNwsModule | $loadInlineNwsModule nwsLetterEmbedded | $nwsLetterEmbedded nwsModuleAttached | false NEWSLETTERS Receive the latest local updates in your inbox startclickprintincludeProtests against President Donald Trump’s immigration ban continued…
60-year-old Jiansheng Chen was shot and killed by neighborhood security guard while sitting in his minivan. You’ve got to be kidding me. Last week in southeast Virginia, a 60-year-old grandfather was apparently playing Pokemon Go when he was shot and killed during a fatal altercation with a neighborhood security guard. Chesapeake man shot, killed by…
White supremacists and other domestic extremists maintain an active presence in U.S. police departments and other law enforcement agencies. A striking reference to that conclusion, notable for its confidence and the policy prescriptions that accompany it, appears in a classified FBI Counterterrorism Policy Guide from April 2015, obtained by The Intercept. The guide, which details the process by which the FBI enters individuals on…
After acting attorney general Sally Yates issued a memo on Jan. 30, for Justice Department lawyers not to defend President Trump’s immigration order, he “relieved Ms. Yates of her duties,” according to a White House statement. Dana Boente, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Va., was sworn in to replace her. (Jenny Starrs/The…
Immigrant rights groups scored a series of early court victories against President Donald Trump’s terrorism-focused executive order limiting travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, but legal experts and administration officials said the impact of those initial legal victories could prove fleeting. There is little doubt the orders — issued by federal judges in New York, Boston,…
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday closed the nation’s borders to refugees from around the world, ordering that families fleeing the slaughter in Syria be indefinitely blocked from entering the United States, and temporarily suspending immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries. In an executive order that he said was part of an extreme vetting plan…
Image: AP Remember how Donald Trump hammered on Hillary Clinton for using a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State? During the election, Trump went as far as wanting to put “Crooked Hillary” behind bars, because having staffers use emails not monitored by the government could be a bad thing. But according…
A Manhattan judge on Wednesday declined to delay criminal trials for two defendants given summonses last year for low-level offenses who are challenging the appointment of New York City Police Department legal staffers to prosecute their cases. Trials for Arminta Jeffryes, 23, and Cristina Winsor, 39, who were given summonses last year while they were…