Valerie Richardson

Minneapolis City Council members who voted to gut police get taxpayer-funded private security

Three members of the Minneapolis city council are being protected by taxpayer-funded private security even as they support a proposal to abolish the police department.

June 28, 2020

George Kirby? Floyd Taylor? Democrat leaders Pelosi, Schumer botch George Floyd’s name

Democratic House and Senate leaders want to honor the memory of George Floyd with sweeping criminal-justice legislation, even if they can't always remember his name.

June 27, 2020

Portland anti-cop protesters blasted by Black leaders: ‘Get your knee off our neck’

Black community leaders decried Friday the protesters who wreaked havoc on a predominantly minority Portland neighborhood in an attempt to set up a Seattle-style autonomous zone, telling the rioters to "get your knee off our neck."

June 26, 2020

Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter co-founder, featured in GOP ad: ‘We are trained Marxists’

A 2015 video in which Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors describes herself and co-founder Alicia Garza as "trained Marxists" is making an appearance in a GOP campaign ad.

June 25, 2020

Senior citizens post biggest U.S. population gains in last decade, Census Bureau reports

The young are becoming less numerous and less White. For the first time, non-Whites and Hispanics made up a majority of the under-16 population in 2019, fueled by falling White fertility rates and the rapid growth in the Asian and Hispanic communities.

June 25, 2020

Keith Ellison, Minnesota AG, sues ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, API for ‘climate deception’

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing ExxonMobil and other oil-and-gas entities of deceiving consumers about climate change, six months after New York suffered a major defeat with its climate-fraud litigation.

June 24, 2020

Congressman calls for Wisconsin Gov. Evers to resign after mob allegedly beats up legislator

After a mob descended Tuesday on the Wisconsin State Capitol, breaking windows, pulling down two historic statues, and allegedly beating up a state legislator, Rep. Tom Tiffany declared he's had enough, calling on the state's Democratic governor to resign due to his failure to curb the violence.

June 24, 2020

Project Veritas Facebook sting: Moderators brag about deleting pro-Trump posts

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long insisted that the company is politically neutral, but the same apparently can't be said for all of its content moderators.

June 23, 2020

Black Lives Matter leverages George Floyd death in cultural purge

For its most radical devotees, Black Lives Matter is a revolution, and no revolution would be complete without a cultural purge.

June 17, 2020

Dylan Shakespeare Robinson charged with arson in Minneapolis Third Precinct razing

A Minnesota man was charged Tuesday with setting fire to the Minneapolis Third Police Precinct, which was overrun and razed by vandals last month at the height of the rioting during the George Floyd protests.

June 16, 2020

James Edward Marshall charged in Danny Pruitt shooting at Black Lives Matter rally

A Colorado protester was charged Monday with attempted murder for allegedly shooting a disabled veteran in the head during a Black Lives Matter demonstration spurred by the death of George Floyd.

June 15, 2020

Seattle ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ draws Donald Trump crackdown threat

President Trump says his administration is ready to crack down on leftists who have barricaded a six-block section of Seattle's Capitol Hill, warning that radicals will be encouraged to spread their lawless tactics to other U.S. cities if Democratic leaders don't stand up to them.

June 15, 2020

Kate Brown, Oregon gov., freezes reopening over surge in coronavirus cases

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has slammed the brakes on the state's reopening plans after an uptick in novel coronavirus cases, delaying business restarts even as protesters continue to gather by the thousands for Black Lives Matter marches and rallies in Portland.

June 12, 2020

Green River Drift cattle drive threatened by grizzly bear lawsuit

The growing grizzly population represents only one of the challenges on the annual 58-mile trek, which begins Saturday and runs from the high-desert mesas to the Bridger-Teton National Forest, but this year the ranchers face a fresh threat: efforts by environmentalists to prevent the removal or killing of grizzlies that prey on cattle.

June 11, 2020

Twelve statues, memorials vandalized during National Mall rioting: National Park Service

The graffiti on the Lincoln Memorial and World War II Memorial has received the most attention, but a total of 12 statues and memorials were defaced by vandals during recent rioting that spread to the National Mall, according to the National Park Service.

June 11, 2020

Billie Jean King, Megan Rapinoe call for NCAA to pull games out of Idaho over transgender law

Billie Jean King and Megan Rapinoe want the NCAA to give Idaho the North Carolina treatment.

June 10, 2020

Ted Cruz: Uber Eats’ no-fee policy for black-owned restaurants violates civil rights laws

Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, predicted Wednesday that Uber Eats will soon find itself in legal trouble over its decision to drop delivery fees on orders from black-owned restaurants, arguing that the policy violates federal civil rights statutes.

June 10, 2020

Pennsylvania legislature sets up showdown with Gov. Tom Wolf with vote to end pandemic shutdown

Pennsylvania legislators approved late Tuesday a resolution to scrap the governor's pandemic shutdown order, setting up a showdown between the Republican-controlled legislature and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf.

June 10, 2020

George Floyd laid to rest after emotionally charged ‘homecoming celebration’

George Perry Floyd Jr. was laid to rest Tuesday next to his mother in Houston, capping two weeks of social upheaval with an emotionally charged funeral service that was equal parts gospel revival, civil rights summit and Democratic political rally.

June 9, 2020

Tim Walz, Minnesota governor, orders residents to observe moment of silence for George Floyd

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ordered residents Tuesday to observe eight minutes and 46 seconds of silence in honor of the late George Floyd, a reference to the length of time that an officer pressed a knee into the back of the dying man's neck.

June 9, 2020