Trump Supporters Disrupt Early Voting in Virginia
A group of Trump supporters waving campaign flags disrupted the second day of early voting in Fairfax, Va., on Saturday, chanting “four more years” as...
Tag : Demonstrations, Protests and Riots
Top Justice Dept. Official Embraces Use of Sedition Charges for Protest Violence
WASHINGTON — A top Justice Department official on Thursday supported a suggestion by Attorney General William P. Barr to consider bringing sedition charges for violent...
Why French Politicians Can’t Stop Talking About Crime
PARIS — In the Babel Tower of French politics, everyone agrees at least on this: Crime is out of control. The leader of the far...
Military Police Considered Using Heat Ray on D.C. Protesters, Whistle-Blower Says
Hours before law enforcement officers violently cleared protesters from a square outside the White House in June, a top military police officer sought out weaponry...
Miami Herald Editor Apologizes for ‘Racist and Anti-Semitic’ Insert
The Miami Herald, one of the country’s largest newspapers, apologized on Monday for a column it called “incredibly offensive” that appeared last week in Libre,...
Barr Told Prosecutors to Consider Sedition Charges for Protest Violence
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr told federal prosecutors in a call last week that they should consider charging rioters and others who committed...
Whose America Is It?
2020 has become the year of the hair-trigger election. The conservative Federalist website put its point of view in vivid terms on Sept. 11: “The...
Breonna Taylor’s Family Receives $12 Million Settlement From Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After months of protests that turned Breonna Taylor’s name into a national slogan against police violence, city officials have agreed to pay...
A Civil War Political Movement Reawakens — Complete With Capes
In January, the artist Hank Willis Thomas began enigmatically summoning designers, musicians and activists he knew to his studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He...
Trump’s Perverse Campaign Strategy
On Sunday, Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, warned of left-wing insurrectionists and “sedition” within...