Kim Potter, the police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minn., who fatally shot Daunte Wright on Sunday, has resigned from the Police Department, her union said in a statement on Tuesday. The city’s police chief, Tim Gannon, also announced that he was departing. In a letter that Ms. Potter sent to …
Read More »Opinion | What to Do About Killings by the Police
To the Editor: Re “Minnesota Police Kill Another Man as Tensions Build” (front page, April 13): President Biden is right to call for an investigation into the policing crisis. It should be done at the federal level. Whether the crisis is rooted in poor training, poor hiring practices, systemic racism …
Read More »After Backing Military Force in Past, U.S.A.I.D. Nominee Focuses on Deploying Soft Power
WASHINGTON — Near the end of the 2014 documentary “Watchers of the Sky,” which chronicles the origins of the legal definition of genocide, Samantha Power grows emotional. At the time, Ms. Power was President Barack Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, and, she said, had “great visibility into a lot …
Read More »Live Updates: Biden to Announce Full U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan by Sept. 11
Here’s what you need to know: U.S. Army troops return from a deployment to Afghanistan in December.Credit…John Moore/Getty Images President Biden has decided to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 20 years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon launched the country …
Read More »Biden Wants Leaders to Make Climate Commitments for Earth Day
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is nearing agreements with Japan, Korea and Canada to bolster carbon emission reduction targets in all four countries ahead of a closely watched summit of global leaders on Earth Day, April 22. But in the latest sign of how difficult it will be for President …
Read More »The Next Level in Office Amenities: Wild Horses
STOREY COUNTY, Nev. — You can’t ride the wild mustangs at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center in Nevada, but you’re nearly guaranteed to see bands of them loping over sagebrush in a scene that feels straight out of the 1800s. At least until the dust clears and Tesla’s 5.3-million-square-foot “Gigafactory” comes …
Read More »J&J Vaccine and Blood Clots: A Risk, if It Exists, Is Tiny
On Tuesday morning, U.S. federal health regulators recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine while they investigated six reports of blood clots in women ages 18 to 48. One has died, and a second is hospitalized in critical condition. As of Monday, 6.8 million people …
Read More »Chauvin Trial: Live Updates and Stream
Key Updates: April 13, 2021, 2:39 p.m. ET April 13, 2021, 2:39 p.m. ET In their own words, ‘Derek Chauvin was justified.’ April 13, 2021, 1:40 p.m. ET April 13, 2021, 1:40 p.m. ET The officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright just resigned, as did the chief of police. April …
Read More »Covid-19 Johnson & Johnson Vaccine: Live Updates
Here’s what you need to know: Video transcript Back transcript J&J Vaccine Pause Will Have Limited Impact, White House Says Jeffrey D. Zients, the White House Covid-19 response coordinator, said Tuesday that pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine would not impact the administration’s vaccination goals. “Let me …
Read More »Iran Vows to Increase Uranium Enrichment After Attack on Nuclear Site
Iran said Tuesday that it would begin enriching uranium to a level of 60 percent purity, three times the current level and much closer to that needed to make a bomb, though American officials doubt the country has the ability to produce a weapon in the near future. Deputy Foreign …
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