After intense backlash from local bodega workers and city tabloids, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday dropped all charges against bodega clerk Jose Alba, who was allegedly acting in self-defense when he fatally stabbed a man who was attacking him.
After a slow showing early Monday morning, an estimated 400 owner-operators managed to shut down truck traffic at all three terminals at the Port of Oakland on Monday to protest California’s controversial independent contractor law, AB5.
Gender activists within the field of archaeology are pushing for anthropologists to be prevented from identifying human remains as male or female because it is not known how ancients would have self-identified.
Police arrested Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and other lawmakers on Tuesday for blocking traffic outside the United States Supreme Court during a planned “civil disobedience” abortion protest.
Nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school, but "egregiously poor decision-making" resulted in more than an hour of chaos before the gunman who took 21 lives was finally confronted and killed, according to a damning investigative report released Sunday.
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit is demanding that the Department of Health and Human Services turn over financial and employment records regarding Christine Grady, the director of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Bioethics Center and wife of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
