Riots

This is an editorial from the Combat Veterans for Congress Political Action Committee that commemorates our fallen patriots on this Memorial Day. It is posted here with the permission of the author. CVFC PAC supports the election of US military combat veterans to the US Senate and House of Representatives.…

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Tammy Tam Tammy Tam is the South China Morning Post's Editor-in-Chief and is responsible for its editorial direction, strategic development and newsroom operations. She is a Board Member of the World Editors Forum, the leading network for news editors that focuses on the future of quality journalism, newsroom transformation and…

More than a quarter of Republicans believe that "true American patriots" may need to resort to violence to save the United States, new polling shows. The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) released polling data on Thursday from a survey conducted in March. The survey examined the prevalence of belief in…

100 years ago, decades of Black economic success were essentially erased after a riotous white mob attacked the prosperous Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. However, Oklahoma didn’t include this atrocity as a part of its school curriculum until the year 2002 and it wasn’t until 2019 that the state's Education…

This Memorial Day, as we remember American servicemen and women who gave their lives for their country, we should also recognize another group of patriots who also paid the ultimate price in service to the nation — our fallen astronauts. America’s astronaut corps — that elite community of brave space…

Just over one-quarter of white evangelical Christians in America buy into a key claim from the evidence-free QAnon conspiracy theory, according to a new poll. The poll, released Thursday by the Public Religion Research Institute, found that 26 percent of white evangelical Protestants agreed that there would be "a storm…

Illustration by Derek Zheng Authorities in Hong Kong this week continued to implement the national security law imposed on the city by Beijing a year ago. This is perhaps most visible in the courts, as authorities are “still working through a backlog of potential prosecutions of the more than 10,000…

AP Photo/Brynn Anderson The New England Patriots are the betting favorites to land Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones. Per PointsBet (h/t Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk), the Pats top the ledger at +150 ($100 bet to win $150). The Tennessee Titans are right behind New England at +200.…

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Friday said Senate Republicans' decision to vote against a bill creating a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riots was "unconscionable" and "the betrayal of the oath we each take." The big picture: Manchin said in a statement on Thursday that Republicans had…