RCMP ribbon skirts ‘disheartening’, ‘insulting’: Indigenous activists
Ribbon skirts are now being allowed as part of RCMP uniforms, but many Indigenous people are saying Mounties shouldn’t get to wear the sacred symbol.
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Today in Politics: PM Modi in Bihar, Priyanka-Dimple Yadav roadshow in Varanasi
And now all that is left is the final lap. With 58 seats in eight states and Union Territories, including Delhi, going to polls on Saturday, the action shifts to the final stretch of his long-drawn parliamentary election. Among the states where polling is being held at a single go on June 1 are Himachal Pradesh, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a rally on Friday, and Punjab with its 13 seats.
Ex-Boston police officer who assaulted a Capitol Police officer with a chair on Jan. 6 is sentenced
WASHINGTON — A former Boston police K-9 officer who helped in the response to the Boston Marathon bombing was sentenced Friday to 20 months in prison for attacking a Capitol Police officer with a chair during the Jan. 6 riot.
Biden Marks 4th Anniversary Of George Floyd’s Murder, Urges Action On Police Reform Bill
President Joe Biden reflected on moments he shared with George Floyd’s family and called for Congress to advance police reform legislation as he marked the fourth anniversary of the day police murdered the Black man on a Minneapolis street.
Clarence Thomas takes aim at 'judicial power' in landmark Brown v Board of Education decision
Justice Clarence Thomas, in the court's latest decision upholding a GOP-drawn redistricting map in South Carolina, took aim at a key, decades-old civil rights decision, calling it an "extravagant [use] of judicial power."
Republican AGs ask Supreme Court to block climate change lawsuits brought by several states
Republican attorneys general in 19 states have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block several Democratic-led states from pursuing climate change lawsuits against the oil and gas industry in their own state courts.
Blinken will head to eastern Europe as concerns mount about Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to eastern Europe next week as concerns mount about Russia’s advances in Ukraine, potential Russian interference in neighboring Moldova and pro-Moscow legislation being promoted in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, the State Department said Friday.
Florida is using a fraud-hunting tool used by the right to look for voters to remove from the rolls
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida wants local elections officials to use data collected by far-right activists, some of whom falsely believe the 2020 election was stolen, to potentially remove people from the state’s voter rolls, according to emails obtained by NBC News.