McCarthy said he wanted the new panel to look beyond the violent uprising by supporters loyal to Donald Trump House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday that he won’t support a proposal to form an independent, bipartisan commission to study the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, almost certainly eroding GOP support ahead…
District Attorney Andrew Womble said Andrew Brown Jr.‘s actions caused deputies to believe it was necessary to use deadly force North Carolina sheriff’s deputies were justified in their fatal shooting of a Black man in April, a district attorney said Tuesday. District Attorney Andrew Womble said Andrew Brown Jr.‘s actions caused deputies to believe it…
When it comes to who may inherit Ellen DeGeneres’s talk show crown, Gayle King is giving a thumbs-up for Tiffany Haddish. “I think that could be fun. That would be great fun,” King told “Entertainment Tonight.” “They know she can do the job. Kelly Clarkson is doing great. So they’ve got some options, but there…
Blinken also defended the U.S. decision to block what would have been an unanimous U.N. Security Council statement on the fighting Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his envoy reached out to Palestinian and regional Arab leaders on Tuesday as attacks between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers raged on, maintaining what the Biden administration is…
The network is also reviving “The Wonder Years,” this time with a Black cast that will feature Don Cheadle as the adult narrator ABC will air a short-run series “Women of the Movement” next season about Mamie Till-Mobley, whose son Emmett Till became a symbol of the civil rights movement after he was lynched in…
“Giuliani vs. Cuomo. Holy smokes. It’s Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier,” Andrew Giuliani said in an interview with the New York Post Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, announced Tuesday he is seeking the Republican nomination for governor of New York, potentially setting up a battle with third-term incumbent…
Louisiana civil rights activists want a state probation officer fired after video surfaced that allegedly shows him planting drugs on a Black man. McKinley Bates III was charged with several drug and weapons felonies and faced 10 years in prison. He spent three months behind bars awaiting trial. But after officials from the Concordia Parish…
Contrary to the education commissioner’s claims, school officials told the local press Amy Donofrio is still an active employee. A Florida teacher who was suspended after refusing to remove a Black Lives Matter flag from outside her classroom at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville said she learned she had been fired from a…
Halle Berry and her musician-boyfriend Van Hunt are still going strong. On a May 15 Instagram photo, Berry planted a big kiss on Hunt while wearing nothing but floral swimsuit bottoms and a white T-shirt. Hunt, who seemed to feel differently about the weather that day, wore a grey long-sleeved hoodie and neon green bottoms….
According to a Politico report, Demings had considered a run for governor of Florida but decided to pursue the Senate seat. Florida Congresswoman Val Demings is planning to run next year for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Marco Rubio. According to a Politico report, Demings had considered a run for governor of Florida but decided…
