Baltimore officer acquitted on all counts in Freddie Gray case
BALTIMORE — A judge found police officer Edward M. Nero not guilty of all criminal charges in the case of Freddie Gray, whose death last year in police custody sparked riots and widespread anger in the city. The acquittal by Judge Barry G. Williams, announced Monday in a packed courtroom, is the first verdict reached in the Gray case. Nero is the second officer to face trial on charges related to Gray’s arrest and death. The first officer’s trial ended in a hung jury. Nero, 30, hugged his lawy..>> view originalSanders wins greater say in Democratic platform; names pro ...
Sen. Bernie Sanders was given unprecedented say over the Democratic Party platform Monday in a move party leaders hope will soothe a bitter split with backers of the longshot challenger to Hillary Clinton — and Sanders immediately used his new power to name a well-known advocate for Palestinian rights to help draft Democratic policy. The senator from Vermont was allowed to choose nearly as many members of the Democratic Party platform-writing body as Clinton, who is expected to clinch the nomin..>> view originalThe Fix's first 2016 electoral college ratings are here!
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will be their respective party's presidential nominees this fall. This is a fact. So, it seems about time for The Fix to release our first cut at what the 2016 electoral map looks like in a Clinton-Trump race. Our ratings are the result of an analysis of historical data, demographic trends, polling and the two candidates in question. The ratings are, of course, subject to change. If and when we make a ratings change between now and November 8, we will write a pos..>> view originalRight-wing candidate edged out in Austrian presidential vote
BERLIN — Elder statesman Alexander Van der Bellen beat back the far-right insurgent candidate in Austria’s high-stakes presidential race, claiming a wafer-thin victory in the final count Monday after a campaign that exposed the rise of populism in the West. Van der Bellen, 72, had fallen behind in the election-day vote Sunday but edged out Norbert Hofer, a 45-year-old aeronautical engineer from the far-right Freedom Party, after winning a majority of the hundreds of thousands of absentee ballo..>> view originalThe Latest: UN says 50000 civilians in Fallujah at risk
DAMASCUS, Syria — The Latest on a violent day in the Middle East, with deadly bombings in Syria and Yemen and the start of an Iraqi government offensive to retake the city of Fallujah from the Islamic State group (all times local): 10:00 p.m. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says there is “a great risk” to about 50,000 civilians the U.N. estimates are still in Fallujah, especially for those trying to flee the Iraqi government offensive to retake the city from the Islamic State extremist group..>> view originalNeeding to raise ten of millions, Washington National Cathedral ...
The Rev. Randy Hollerith, who leads St. James’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, poses for a portrait inside the church on Friday afternoon. Hollerith has been named dean at the National Cathedral in Washington. (Timothy C. Wright for the Washington Post) One of Randy Hollerith’s earliest memories is of watching stonemasons at work at the Washington National Cathedral when his great-aunts took him there as a child. Now, as the nationally prominent institution’s next dean, Hollerith will be resp..>> view originalThe big advantage superstar cities have over everyone else
Mario Queiroz, Google vice president of product management, shows off a Google Home virtual assistant device at the Internet firm's annual developers conference in Mountain View, Calif., on May 18. (Glenn Chapman/AFP/Getty Images) There are two big explanations for why rural counties, small towns and even medium-sized cities have fallen behind America's largest, most innovative metro areas when it comes to job growth and new business formation. One is primarily about those "left-behind" are..>> view originalSupreme Court finds bias in jury that sent black Georgia man to ...
- On Monday, May 23, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a black Georgia death row inmate, Timothy Tyrone Foster, because prosecutors kept African Americans off the jury that convicted him of killing an elderly white woman. ()>> view originalThe future of journalism is saying 'yes.' A lot.
Dean Baquet, the editor of the New York Times, is out with a memo detailing his vision for the news organization amid a digital revolution that has disquieted and unsettled virtually every person in the business of journalism. The whole memo is worth a read but one paragraph — and, actually two sentences in that paragraph — stood out to me. Here it is (bolding is mine): Fewer stories will be done just “for the record.” In fact, fewer traditional news stories will be done overall. Stories will r..>> view originalVirginia GOP file lawsuit to block felons from voting
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Republicans asked state’s highest court Monday to block more than 200,000 felons from voting in November, arguing that Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe abused his power by restoring the voting rights of thousands of convicts who’ve completed their sentences.In a lawsuit GOP leaders filed in the Virginia Supreme Court, they say McAuliffe violated the separation of powers by effectively suspending the state’s ban on voting by felons. They say McAuliffe is ignoring deca..>> view original
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
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