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The Associated Press reports that a white state trooper has been charged with murder over the fatal shooting of a 60-year-old black man during a traffic stop:
A Georgia state trooper was fired and charged with murder on Friday a week after he shot a 60-year-old man who tried to flee a rural traffic stop, authorities said.
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House speaker Nancy Pelosi has written a letter to her Democrat colleagues in which she says Congress’s ongoing inability to agree on a stimulus bill during the Covid-19 pandemic is due to “the complete disarray on the Republican side — as President Trump contradicts his own negotiators and his own positions.”
She also attacked Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s role in the stalled negotiations. “Senator McConnell’s attitude that states should go bankrupt is shared by the White House and has been a significant obstacle inside negotiations,” she wrote.
Continue reading…Warnings that changes to USPS could disenfranchise votersFrom Oakland to the White House? The rise of Kamala HarrisFlu and Covid: winter could bring ‘double-barrel’ outbreak to USSign up to our First Thing newsletter 3.27pm BSTThe Associated Press reports that a white state trooper has been charged with murder over the fatal shooting of a 60-year-old black man during a traffic stop:A Georgia state trooper was fired and charged with murder on Friday a week after he shot a 60-year-old man who tried to flee a rural traffic stop, authorities said. 3.17pm BSTHouse speaker Nancy Pelosi has written a letter to her Democrat colleagues in which she says Congress’s ongoing inability to agree on a stimulus bill during the Covid-19 pandemic is due to “the complete disarray on the Republican side — as President Trump contradicts his own negotiators and his own positions.”She also attacked Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s role in the stalled negotiations. “Senator McConnell’s attitude that states should go bankrupt is shared by the White House and has been a significant obstacle inside negotiations,” she wrote. Continue reading…