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After months of speculation, Vice President Joe Biden announced he will not run for president. Biden announced the news from the White House Rose Garden. He said on Wednesday that, as he had said before, that he knew the grieving process over the death of his son might continue past the point that he could…
A federal appeals court has upheld the “core provisions” of New York’s SAFE Act and a Connecticut gun control law, both passed following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut and challenged in court by gun-rights activists on constitutional grounds. A three-judge panel from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on…
In February, the Guardian reported stories about the Holman Square, the Chicago Police Department’s off-the-books black-site, where (mostly black and brown) suspects are denied counsel while being brutalized into forced confessions. Now, Spencer Ackerman is back with news of the Guardian’s spectacular lawsuit against the Chicago PD, in which they are seeking transparency about Holman…
During the summer of 2014, as the Black Lives Matter movement flared amid a spate of questionable police killings, the little known hashtag #every28hours began appearing with increasing frequency on social media. The hashtag is shorthand for the statistic, drawn from a 2013 report by the black activist group Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, that an…
This week a 2-year-old in South Carolina found a gun in the back seat of the car he was riding in and accidentally shot his grandmother, who was sitting in the passenger seat. This type of thing happens from time to time: A little kid finds a gun, fires it, and hurts or kills himself…
The Democratic Party is in much greater peril than its leaders or supporters recognize, and it has no plan to save itself. Yes, Barack Obama is taking a victory lap in his seventh year in office. Yes, Republicans can’t find a credible candidate to so much as run for speaker of the House. Yes, the…
Clinton stands at 45% in the race for the Democratic nomination, with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders behind her at 29%. Vice President Joe Biden, who is considering a run for presidency and did not participate in last week’s debate, follows at 18%. Behind the top three, former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb had 1% support, while…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The private email server running in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s home basement when she was secretary of state was connected to the Internet in ways that made it more vulnerable to hackers while using software that could have been exploited, according to data and documents reviewed by The Associated Press. Clinton’s server, which…
Photo Donald J. Trump at the No Labels Problem Solver Convention in Manchester, N.H., on Monday.Credit Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times Conservatives have criticized Donald J. Trump for expressing liberal views on health care, abortion and taxing the rich. On Friday, Mr. Trump, who is leading most Republican presidential polls, offered his…
Stephen Colbert thinks Tuesday night’s Democratic debate was different. There were no personal attacks, no salty language — except, from the back wall, which for some reason kept repeating ‘f CNN’” (the debate was cosponsored by Facebook and displayed its logo before CNN’s). Colbert played a video splicing all of times Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders…