Month: December 2019

Last year, President Trump vowed he’d never sign another sweeping spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. Spoiler alert: Suddenly those spending bills don’t seem like such a bad idea. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know

After more than five months of protests over construction of a giant telescope on land some native Hawaiians consider sacred, Hawaii Gov. David Ige said Thursday that state law enforcement will be removed from the site after he was informed that the project “would not be proceeding with construction at this time.” Ige said that

Protesters in India have vowed more civil action against a new citizenship law, even as the Indian government extends sweeping controls on protests and imposes internet shutdowns following deadly country-wide demonstrations. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in at least 15 cities across the country, including New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Kolkata

Hong Kong police say they have frozen about $9 million in funds raised by anti-government protesters, and arrested four members of a prominent fundraising group on allegations of money laundering. Chan Wai-kei, the acting superintendent of the Hong Kong Police Narcotics Bureau’s financial investigation division, said Thursday that police also seized about $16,700 in cash,

A Jersey City school board meeting at which the board’s president intended to seek the resignation of a member who called Jewish people “brutes” in a social media post has been canceled for security reasons, school officials said. Gov. Phil Murphy accused Board of Education member Joan Terrell-Paige of anti-Semitism following her now-deleted Facebook comments

When a Chicago police officer lifted him into the air and slammed him into a cement curb on Thanksgiving, Bernard Kersh told CNN affiliate WBBM that he “could have been killed.” “I would have rather been tased than be slammed like that,” Kersh said. “Like I could feel my heartbeat in my brain.” Kersh told

A mural supporting black trans women near the University of Virginia was crossed out by a pro-gun message twice in two days, the university said. The mural appeared on the Beta Bridge, which runs through the campus. UVA students frequently post art, write protests and express free speech on the bridge. It’s a tradition of