Putting conditions on U.S. aid to Israel has become a controversial topic — but it was the norm in Washington just a few decades ago.

Israel

The Intercept

Rep. Betty McCollum Leads Effort to Put Conditions on U.S. Aid to Israel

Despite pledging to recuse herself from contracts involving her partner “as necessary,” the councilwoman-turned-House-candidate approved $17 million to Perk.

Shontel Brown Approved Major Contract, Then Contractor Backed Her Campaign

While much of the public’s attention has been focused on the thousands of unaccompanied minors currently in U.S. custody, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has quietly begun a policy of dropping off asylum-seekers in remote border towns along the deadliest stretches of the U.S.-Mexico divide.

US & Canada

New York, NY

New York

The Border Patrol’s Abdication in the Sonoran Desert

The families sat in folding chairs under a white canopy in a tiny park north of the central plaza. A small group of volunteers dressed head to toe in medical scrubs stood at a table nearby, gray hair protruding from behind their plastic face shields. Many of the children wore winter coats and knit caps. Their parents looked tired but present, their overstuffed backpacks resting in the grass beside them.

“It’s Consumed Our Lives”: Volunteers Step In as Border Patrol Drops Migrants Off in Tiny Arizona Towns

Encountering police during a mental-health crisis should not be 'a death sentence,' advocates say

Mental Health

Providence Journal

Time Magazine

Black and Disabled People at Risk in Police Encounters

COPA says that at the request of the Toledo family, they will not immediately release the video to the public as the family continues to grieve their loss.

Chicago, IL

Chicago

USA Today

CBS Local

NBC Chicago 

Chicago Tribune

Chicago Sun Times

COPA shows Toledo family video of Chicago police shooting 13

The Federal Bureau of Investigations headquarters is seen in Washington, D.C., on October 24, 2019.
Photo: Elise Swain/The Intercept
When I became a reporter, I was surprised to discover a trait that I had never before recognized in myself.People liked to talk to me. They liked to talk to me so much that they often revealed things they weren’t supposed to share. They did so voluntarily.

Whistleblower

The Journalist and the Whistleblower

The mayor of Minneapolis has declared a state of emergency and issued a curfew as tensions in the city rise following the death of Duante Wright on Sunday.

Black Lives Matter

Police Brutality

Politics

Videos

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis

Yahoo News

The Star Kuala Lumpur

Hindustan Times 

Minneapolis imposes curfew following police shooting

The Anti-Defamation League has called for Carlson to be fired after he brought up on air the white supremacist ‘replacement’ theory

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