Riots

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…

The Senate failed to reach the 60 votes necessary to advance a bill creating a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, voting 54-35 as Republicans invoked the first legislative filibuster of the Biden presidency. Why it matters: Democrats argue the commission is urgently needed to investigate one…

Politics Fifteen percent of Americans believe that “patriots may have to resort to violence” to restore the country’s rightful order, the poll indicated. Broken glass on the doors to the entrance of the Capitol Rotunda in January. Erin Schaff/The New York Times By Giovanni Russonello, New York Times Service May…

Two people were arrested and seven police were injured following rioting, allegedly involving Moroccan migrants, in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta during a visit by populist VOX party leader Santiago Abascal. Violence broke out in the city, which is located on the North African coast and borders Morocco,…