The Seattle Police Department should “offer a sincere, public apology” for how it treated demonstrators in the city after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, according to a conclusion from a Seattle panel of officers, citizens and accountability experts. The panel completed its final review of how police responded and reacted to months of…

Tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, who helped launch Cash App and was most recently employed by the cryptocurrency startup MobileCoin, was stabbed to death April 4 on the streets of San Francisco. Lee had lived in the city for a number of years before reportedly relocating to Miami due to reported concerns he had about San Francisco’s…

Top secret Pentagon documents from the U.S. government have leaked online, exposing U.S. intelligence on the Russia-Ukraine war. Now the Justice Department is investigating. And an Uber driver convicted of murder last week could receive a pardon from the Texas governor. These stories and more highlight the daily rundown for Monday, April 10, 2023. Classified…

As the term “woke” gains increasing prevalence in the Republican political arena, a new poll suggests that Americans are divided on its true meaning. The phrase, which gained popularity during the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014, is being used by many on the right to describe the far-left. A recent USA Today poll framed…

A government-appointed reparations committee in San Francisco is recommending that each eligible Black resident be awarded a one-time payment of $5 million in an effort to correct the city’s decades of racial discrimination. Conservatives say the reparations proposal — which some say would cost $50 billion — would ruin the city’s financial picture, given San…

Few topics highlight the differences between the GOP and Democrats more than the hot-button issue of liberal “wokeism.” In fact, the two parties can barely agree on what the term even means. Being woke, a concept that gained popularity in the early days of the Black Lives Matter movement, was originally used to describe people…

The disturbing videotaped beating death of Tyre Nichols has renewed the call for police reform legislation. Five Memphis police officers, all of whom were Black, have been fired and charged with second-degree murder. Nichols’ beating has sparked new conversations about the issue of race in law enforcement. Straight Arrow News contributor Ruben Navarrette, whose father…

A recent Wall Street Journal editorial excoriated the Republican Party for its in-fighting, calling them “too dimwitted to understand the uses of power and how to wield it.” House Republicans have been feuding ever since they regained majority control in the midterm elections and some party hardliners are trying to torpedo Kevin McCarthy’s bid to…

Two reports on the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol have two very different focuses. The official Jan. 6 investigative committee compiled a report that stated the attack on the Capitol could not have happened without Donald Trump. A separate investigation from a group of five House Republicans found that intelligence failures, internal politics…

Major protests over China’s strict COVID-19 quarantine policies continue to rock the communist country. One data analyst claims the government is using bot accounts to flood Twitter with porn as a way to distract and contain the spread of information about the protests. Straight Arrow News contributor Peter Zeihan says such widespread dissent used to…