Category Archives: america

He didn’t trust police but sought their help anyway. Two days later, he was dead

Jameek Lowery

Jameek Lowery entered the dimly lit lobby of the city’s police headquarters in a panic. He was having a mental breakdown — and needed help. Barefoot and wearing only pajama pants and a sweatshirt in the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 5, 2019, Lowery pulled out his cellphone and began a social media broadcast of an anti-police rant.

Nikki Haley says she’s suspending her presidential campaign. What does that mean?

Nikki Haley

When Nikki Haley said she would withdraw from the 2024 presidential race following her underwhelming showing on Super Tuesday, she did so using a phrase that would seem at odds with the finality of her announcement.

Five takeaways from the US Super Tuesday primary races

US Super Tuesday primary races

It was the small races that signalled trouble in the United States’ Super Tuesday elections. As expected, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and Democratic incumbent Joe Biden both cruised to easy victories in the vast majority of the night’s primaries — the contests that ultimately decide who receives major party nominations.

Super Tuesday’s dominance highlights how presidential selection process can exclude many US voters

presidential selection process

As an independent, Christian Miller can’t vote in Pennsylvania’s closed presidential primary in April. He said it wouldn’t matter even if he could. “You’re not really voting for anything,” said Miller, who left the Democratic Party in 2022. “Every election I’ve ever seen, the candidates have been decided by the time they get to Pennsylvania.”

Off to Michigan, Haley is staying in the race despite Trump’s easy primary win in South Carolina

Republican presidential candidate

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says it’s not “the end of our story” despite Donald Trump’s easy primary victory in South Carolina, her home state where the onetime governor had long suggested her competitiveness with the former president would show.

US and EU pile new sanctions on Russia for the Ukraine war’s 2nd anniversary and Navalny’s death

new sanctions on Russia

The United States and the European Union are piling new sanctions on Russia on the eve of the second anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine and in retaliation for the death of noted Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last week in an Arctic penal colony.

Nikki Haley’s Defiant Stand: A Lonely Fight Against Trump’s Juggerna

Nikki Haley

In the face of daunting odds and a looming defeat in her home state of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, the former United Nations ambassador, remains defiant in her quest to challenge Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination. With her campaign bracing for a potential blowout loss on Saturday, Haley’s refusal to quit the race has drawn a mix of admiration and skepticism from within her party.

2 adults are charged with murder in the deadly shooting at Kansas City’s Super Bowl celebration

Kansas City’s Super Bowl celebration

Two men have been charged with murder in last week’s shooting that killed one person and injured 22 others after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade, Missouri prosecutors said Tuesday.

2 officers, 1 first responder shot and killed at the scene of a domestic call in Minnesota

domestic abuse call

Two police officers and one first responder were shot and killed early Sunday while responding to a domestic abuse call in a Minneapolis suburb, according to a law enforcement association.

Donald Trump ordered to pay The New York Times and its reporters nearly $400,000 in legal fees

legal fees

Former President Donald Trump was ordered Friday to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees to The New York Times and three investigative reporters after he sued them unsuccessfully over a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 story about his family’s wealth and tax practices.