Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Two bailiffs in a county courthouse in southwestern Michigan were killed following a shooting by an inmate, according to the county sheriff. Two bailiffs and the shooter are dead in Berrien County Courthouse shooting, Monday, July 11, 2016.(Photo: Michelle Crandall) Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey confirmed at a Monday press conference that two court bailiffs…
This is not a profile of Hillary Clinton. It is not a review of her career or an assessment of her campaign. You won’t find any shocking revelations on her emails, on Benghazi, on Whitewater, or even on her health care plan. This is an effort to answer a question I’ve been struggling with…
And as a consequence, they’re perpetually surprised when people, for example in the north of England, in Sunderland and Wigan — your paper’s been doing wonderful reports on this — say: “I don’t want to stand up for Stuttgart or Düsseldorf. I want to stand up for Wigan.” That’s the world they know. That’s the…
Diamond Reynolds weeps at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in front of the governor’s mansion Thursday in St. Paul, Minn., after recounting the fatal shooting of her boyfriend, Philando Castile, by a police officer. (Eric Miller/Reuters) After a Minnesota police officer fatally shot a black man on Wednesday, gun control advocates weren’t the only ones criticizing…
(Mark Mellone) New video has surfaced showing the moment an off-duty police officer shot and killed a 37-year-old man in an apparent road rage incident in Brooklyn this week. Officer Wayne Isaacs, a three-year veteran of the force, fired two shots at Delrawn Small in East New York early Monday morning. Small, who was…
Donald TrumpDonald TrumpPoll: Americans want alternative to Trump, Clinton American anger boils over Clinton fields email questions under shadow of Dallas attacks MORE is running nearly even in Hispanic support compared to Republicans’ last two presidential nominees, according to a new poll. In a two-way race against Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonPoll: Americans want alternative to…
Let me say this right off the bat: I don’t at all condone any shooting of police officers or attacking them in any way. I hope that the people responsible are caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law – which, given that the attacks appear to have been premeditated and directed at…
At least five Dallas police officers were killed and seven wounded July 7, after a peaceful protest over recent police shootings. Here’s what we know so far. (Deirdra O’Regan/The Washington Post) Following the killing of at least five police officers in Dallas overnight, a former one-term congressman from Illinois ignited a firestorm with a now-deleted…
Last month, we told you about a pair of lawsuits filed by someone named Katie Johnson, who claims that Donald Trump raped her when she was 13, at a party hosted by notorious celebrity pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The claims, as we told you at the time, are being backed by a group of men who…
Hillary Clinton speaks during a town hall meeting on Dec. 4, 2015, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. She has not held a news conference since that day. (Charlie Neibergall/AP) The presumptive Democratic nominee for president in 2016 has not held a news conference in 2016. This has become a source of consternation to the media, as expressed by Washington…