

Until the law enforcement establishment conducts an honest reckoning with its dark history, encomiums to police heroism will continue to alienate wide swaths of American society. thenation.com/article/societ…
Elizabeth Robeson
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Columbia U trained historian. Specialist in South Carolina vigilante & state-sponsored terrorism.


Until the law enforcement establishment conducts an honest reckoning with its dark history, encomiums to police heroism will continue to alienate wide swaths of American society. thenation.com/article/societ…

TRUMP: We have a ballroom that's under budget. It's going up right here. I've doubled the size of it because we obviously need that. REPORTER: The price doubled TRUMP: I doubled the size of it, you dumb person. You are not a smart person.

Breaking News: The Justice Department is said to be considering settling a lawsuit President Trump filed against the IRS over the release of his tax returns. nyti.ms/4wl9069

US President Donald Trump lands in Beijing, and with him he brings the following CEOs to request "deals" with Chinese President Xi Jinping: – Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO – Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO – Tim Cook, Apple CEO – Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO – Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone CEO – Kelly Ortberg, Boeing CEO – Brian Sikes, Cargill CEO – Jane Fraser, Citigroup CEO – Larry Culp, General Electric CEO – David Solomon, Goldman Sachs CEO – Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron CEO – Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm CEO



Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, says that next year it will stop servicing homes in the area, and instead direct that electricity to the growing demand from Nevada data centers. Northern Nevada is one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the country. fortune.com/2026/05/12/lak…


(Reuters) - Chicago Board of Trade wheat and K.C. wheat futures climbed by their daily trading limits on Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture projected the nation's harvest will drop to the lowest level since 1972.