On Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, Taiwan began its own military drills in response to China’s ongoing drills. President Joe Biden will sign the CHIPS Act in the Rose Garden, and four states — Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont and Connecticut — will hold primary elections. Taiwan to begin military drills – After days of Chinese military drills…

J. Alexander Kueng and Tao Thao, the last two former Minneapolis police officers convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights, were sentenced Wednesday in federal court. Keung was sentenced to three years in prison. Thao was sentenced to three and a half years. The two men were convicted after their trial in February. The jury found…

The Census Bureau announced Thursday that 14 states had population miscounts as part of its 2020 survey of the United States’ population. The discrepancy is big enough for the agency to label it “statistically significant.”  The bureau’s “Post-Enumeration Survey” is conducted to gauge the accuracy of the latest census data. The PES found significant undercounts…

In what some saw as a surprise, former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter received a sentence of just two years in prison in the deadly shooting of Daunte Wright. Potter was convicted of first and second degree homicide back in December. The charges came after Potter said she accidentally shot Wright with a handgun when…

Update (Feb. 7, 2022): In the wake of last week’s police shooting at a Minneapolis apartment, a caravan of vehicles drove through the city Sunday to demand justice for Amir Locke. This includes calling for the resignation of the city’s interim Police Chief Amelia Huffman. Some of the roughly 50 vehicles who participated in the caravan…

Update (Dec. 30, 2021): In a television interview released Wednesday, a member of the jury who found former police officer Kim Potter guilty in the slaying of Daunte Wright gave an inside look on the deliberations. The juror spoke on the condition of anonymity due to what the television station described as the “public animosity” surrounding…

The defense team for former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter rested their case Friday, just after Potter took the stand at her own trial to deliver emotional testimony.  The video above shows clips from her testimony. The manslaughter trial surrounds the death of Daunte Wright back in April. Potter said Wright was trying to leave…

Looking to avoid what happened last winter, President Joe Biden announced his administration’s strategy to address COVID-19 this winter. According to the New York Times, the United States’ 7-day average for new cases peaked at over 250,000 this past January. Weekly applications for unemployment benefits also peaked at around this time at over 900,000. “Just…

A video posted by the Twitter account “PatriotTakes” Thursday is escalating the feud between Representatives Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) just days before Congress is set to return to Washington from its Thanksgiving break. In the video, which PatriotTakes says is from a campaign event, Rep. Boebert told a story about getting into…

On the same day a Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an unarmed woman was sentenced to nearly five years in prison, a 25-year-old man was charged in last week’s murder of a British lawmaker. The video above shows clips from sentencing, as well as the announcement of the charges. Officer Mohamed Noor was…