Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has ordered the National Guard and other federal troops to leave her city – setting up an unexpected clash over the rarely-invoked Third Amendment barring the quartering of troops. After declaring an end to the District of Columbia’s state of emergency, Bowser posted a letter […]
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US 20:50 GMT 01.06.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107945/73/1079457317_0:0:3071:1727_1200x675_80_0_0_b9efaee03aaeb586d3bf9101ff5c60ca.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006011079491256-you-have-to-dominate-trump-blasts-weak-state-governors-urges-take-back-your-streets/ After a week of increasing resistance to US police and National Guard units by anti-racist protesters, US President Donald Trump raged at state governors on Monday, calling them “weak” and urging them to “dominate” their cities and […]
Audio clips are being posted from President Trump’s conference call with governors that took place Monday morning. The media said Trump was “unhinged.” Listen and decide. Advertisement – story continues below Listen for yourself: Unhinged- the audio where Trump lashes out at governors and says they need to crack down […]
Devastating floods in Michigan have forced thousands to evacuate after the failure of two dams – one of them a known safety risk – raising questions about decaying infrastructure the president and governor have both vowed to fix. With the 2014 Flint water crisis still in recent memory, Gretchen Whitmer […]
If health and safety fears weren’t enough to trouble local officials during the coronavirus pandemic, some Republican leaders are making it clear to nervous locals that their health restrictions could lead to a legal fight. GOP state leaders in Texas and South Dakota have sent clear warnings in the last […]
Tony Evers The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday tossed out Democrat Governor Tony Evers’s authoritarian Coronavirus lockdown order in a 4-3 decision, ruling it “unlawful” and “unenforceable.” The high court ruled Evers’s administration overstepped its authority when it extended the Coronavirus shutdown for another month without discussing it with the […]
US 19:24 GMT 11.05.2020Get short URL An expert argues that a rush for US states to reopen their economies amid the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic will more than likely backfire if there is a significant uptick, or “second wave,” of infections. Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, issued an […]
According to NewsOne, Calvin James Munerlyn, a 43-year-old married father of nine, was working at a Family Dollar in Flint, Michigan, on Friday. During his shift, he asked a female customer to cover her face with a mask while inside the store. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Executive Order says that “everyone must […]