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PS5 deals are looking particularly strong in Amazon’s Spring Sale, but record low prices and super high value bundles coming together to put last year’s Black Friday offerings to shame. The US is enjoying a fantastic Spider-Man 2 bundle with a price cut to boot, while those across the pond can take advantage of a […]
One of the five US police officers charged in the beating death of a young African-American man in the southern city of Memphis pleaded guilty Thursday, the Justice Department announced. Bodycam footage of the January incident showed the officers, who are all Black, repeatedly kicking and punching Tyre Nichols, 29, during a traffic stop close […]
The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C., headquarters of the United States Department of Justice. Photographed by w:User:Coolcaesar on August 12, 2006 By The Vanguard Staff COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – The U.S. Dept. of Justice is interested in opening its own investigation of a traffic stop beating of a Black veteran by […]
ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press 29 mins ago FILE – The screen at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans honors Tyre Nichols before an NBA basketball game between the New Orleans Pelicans and the Washington Wizards, Jan. 28, 2023. A lawyer for one of five former Memphis officers charged in the fatal beating of Nichols […]
ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press 23 mins ago FILE – The screen at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans honors Tyre Nichols before an NBA basketball game between the New Orleans Pelicans and the Washington Wizards, Jan. 28, 2023. A lawyer for one of five former Memphis officers charged in the fatal beating of Nichols […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A lawyer for one of five former Memphis officers charged with fatally beating Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop said in court documents that investigators found a hallucinogenic drug and stolen credit cards in the Black man’s car when he was pulled over, but authorities have not confirmed the claims. A […]
Cory Doctorow, author, digital rights advocate, and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for his next book, called The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation. “The book presents an array of policy solutions aimed at dismantling the monopolistic power of Big Tech, making the internet a more […]
Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office/AP Louisiana State Police Trooper Jacob Brown is shown in a photo provided by the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office. CNN — A federal jury has acquitted Louisiana State Police Trooper Jacob Brown, who was charged with a single count of deprivation of rights under color of law, for the beating of a […]
A former suburban Detroit police officer is facing a federal civil rights charge after the officer repeatedly punched a Black man in the face and slammed his head into the ground. Matthew Rodriguez, the former Warren police officer, was charged by the U.S. attorney’s office with using excessive force against 19-year-old Jaquwan Smith. Smith was […]
The U.S. economy continued to crank out jobs in May, with nonfarm payrolls surging more than expected despite multiple headwinds, the Labor Department reported Friday. Payrolls in the public and private sector increased by 339,000 for the month, better than the 190,000 Dow Jones estimate and marking the 29th straight month of positive job growth. […]