Valerie Richardson

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

Lisa Bender, Minneapolis Council president, seeks ‘police-free future’

The president of the Minneapolis City Council doesn't merely want to disband the current department -- she wants a "police-free future."

June 8, 2020

George Floyd rioting take heavy toll on black lives, communities

The rioting on the heels of Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody has come at a high price for the black community.

June 8, 2020

New York Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones rips journalism’s ‘even-handedness, both-sidesism’

New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones says that journalists today have a problem with telling both sides of the story -- not that they don't do it enough, but that they do it too much.

June 8, 2020

Mara Liasson, journalists compares Antifa to D-Day troops

The 76th anniversary of D-Day prompted journalists and others to compare the Allied soldiers who stormed the Normandy beaches to defeat Nazi Germany to the black-masked anti-cop anarchists accused of wreaking havoc on U.S. cities.

June 8, 2020

George Floyd, Black Lives Matter martyr, struggled with drugs, crime

In death, George Perry Floyd Jr. has become a civil-rights martyr and a catalyst for social justice. In life, he was a mass of contradictions.

June 7, 2020

Hickenlooper violated ethics law by accepting free flights, dinners

The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission ruled Friday that former Gov. John Hickenlooper violated the state's gift ban by accepting free private flights and dinners, a day after he was held in contempt for defying a subpoena to testify.

June 5, 2020

Andy Ngo sues Rose City Antifa for $900,000 for ‘campaign of terror’

Journalist Andy Ngo filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Rose City Antifa, seeking $900,000 in damages for waging a "campaign of terror and harassment" against him, including a series of physical attacks.

June 4, 2020

George Floyd memorial service draws politicians, celebrities

Politicians and celebrities who never met George Floyd -- and family members who knew him best -- gathered Thursday at a memorial service in Minneapolis that was less about his life than his death, which was retold as a parable for the history of black Americans.

June 4, 2020

Eye-gouging and PowerPoint: Project Veritas infiltrates Antifa in undercover video

Oregon's notoriously secretive Rose City Antifa meets regularly "like a business" to train in weapons and tactics, including eye-gouging, as well as how to engage in violence without getting caught, according to a video released Thursday by Project Veritas.

June 4, 2020

Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign spokesman Brian Fallon: ‘Defund the police’

Brian Fallon, the national press secretary for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, joined Thursday the rising calls on the left to slash law enforcement budgets.

June 4, 2020

Julio Torres, Pennsylvania protester with coronavirus, accused of attacking cops

Lancaster County President Judge David Ashworth said that Julio V. Torres, 22, who was arrested during a Monday night protest, took no precautions to avoid spreading the virus despite being instructed previously to self-quarantine.

June 3, 2020

J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, Tou Thao charged in George Floyd death

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison upgraded Wednesday the murder the charge against one former Minneapolis officer and issued arrest warrants for three others in the death of George Floyd, a case that has ignited mass racial-justice protests and violent rioting nationwide.

June 3, 2020

Klobuchar: Three officers to be charged in Floyd’s death, murder charge will be upped

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Democrat, said Wednesday that former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin will be charged with second-degree murder, and that the three other officers at the scene of George Floyd's death will also be charged.

June 3, 2020