Trevon Ellis, owner of Fade Factory, stands in front of the building where his barbershop was destroyed in Minneapolis. Sometime late Saturday, someone broke into the shop and lit the place on fire. Laylah Amatullah Barrayn for NPR hide caption toggle caption Laylah Amatullah Barrayn for NPR Trevon Ellis, owner […]
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Some members of Congress want to let tech startups access federal stimulus loans. But venture-capital-backed startups aren’t like other small businesses — they fail even in good economic times. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Like many small companies, tech startups have been laying off employees – more than 40,000 people by one […]
Protesters gathered Thursday night in downtown St. Louis outside the Police Headquarters.The protesters shut down the streets outside the police headquarters. Advertisement – story continues below This was around 6:30 PM tonight. The group is protesting George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.Via Kevin Killeen from KMOX. Protestors block traffic outside STL […]
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lashed out at President Trump on Friday as “foolish” after he deemed all churches and synagogues and places of worship as “essential.” Lightfoot says President Trump has no power to override her local lockdown on churches and businesses. Chicago police fined three churches last weekend for […]
A group of shut down protesters in Long Island blasted a local reporter and chanted “fake news is not essential” as he made his way through the crowd. Thursday’s “Re-Open NY Rally” was organized to “make noise to re-open New York.” “Decorate your car, wave your flag, don your patriotic […]
Looking back now, I was likely beginning my journey to leaving the Republican Party on September 9, 2009, when Barack Obama was addressing a Joint Session of Congress and Representative Joe Wilson, Republican of South Carolina, shouted “you lie” in the middle of the president’s address. The president looked in […]
US Army soldiers built a massive to field hospital in Seattle’s CenturyLink Field Events Center in late March to treat coronavirus patients. But the facility was never used and was taken down in April. The US Army Corps of Engineers mobilized in the U.S. in March hiring private contractors to […]