Nearly 4 in 10 local election officials experienced threats, harassment or abuse while on the job, according to a new poll. In the survey, published Wednesday by the Brennan Center for Justice, 38 percent of local election workers reported "threats, harassment or abuse," while 54 percent said they are concerned about the safety of their...
Many of these programs have the full support of police, who are relieved to not have to act as social workers or counselors, which they aren’t trained to be.
NEW YORK — In 2011, Stormy Daniels’s manager phoned a lawyer to complain that “some jerk” had called her up threatening to sue over a blog post claiming the porn actress slept with Donald Trump. “I hate to ask it this way,” Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, said Tuesday while...
Violence erupted between police and student protesters Tuesday night and Wednesday morning at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with hundreds arrested in New York. The New York City Police Department went through a second-story window at a Columbia building that had been seized by demonstrators and cleared out the protesters,...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said late Tuesday that "the time is now" for a cease-fire agreement in the Gaza war, and that it is up to Hamas to agree to Israel's proposal and "compromise." Blinken's remarks came during a press conference after he met with Israeli leaders earlier in the day. Asked by a...
A recent lull in attempts to illegally cross the U.S. southern border could have more to do with beefed up enforcement efforts by Mexico in recent months.
The U.N. has consistently urged restraint in dealing with the situation in the Gaza Strip, but critics have blasted officials for not condemning Hamas.