Conservatives are telling Black Americans not to believe Democrats promising them reparations, but that they are being manipulated in a "cynical bait and switch" for votes. "I would tell every Black American who believes that the Democrats will come up with a policy that will solve all their problems, and that money will solve all of their problems, to dig into the history," former Princeton professor, Dr. Carol Swain, told Fox News Digital. "Look at the people who are making those promises. Have they come through in the past? Why do you believe them now?"
An airline passenger was arrested for carrying a self-defense weapon known as a vampire straw through security at Boston's Logan International Airport, authorities said Tuesday. Arman Achuthan Nair was detained Sunday evening and charged with carrying a dangerous weapon, Massachusetts State Police said in a statement. A trooper was alerted after the 10-inch-long (25-centimeter-long) titanium straw with a beveled end was found in Nair's backpack. The Transportation Security Administration doesn't allow vampire straws to be carried onto a flight. The company that makes the straw bills it as a self-defense weapon since it can be used like a dagger. It also can be used as a straw to slurp down smoothies and other drinks.
New York City's storefront businesses, already weathering inflation and an uneven recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, are also contending with what the police say is a dramatic increase in shoplifting. But statistics also reveal a startling reality: A relative handful of shoplifters are responsible for an outsize percentage of retail crime. Nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in New York City last year involved just 327 people, the police said. Collectively, they were arrested and rearrested more than 6,000 times, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. Some engage in shoplifting as a trade, while others are driven by addiction or mental illness; the police did not identify the 327 people in the analysis.
A Kansas bill that would bar transgender people from using public bathrooms or changing their name or gender on their driver's license cleared the GOP-controlled legislature on Tuesday by margins suggesting backers could override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's expected veto. The state Senate voted 28-12, with one vote more than a two-thirds majority that would be needed to overturn any veto, giving final passage to an earlier House-passed version of the legislation and sending it to the governor.
Ecuador has authorized the carrying and use of guns by civilians, President Guillermo Lasso said in a broadcast tweet, citing rising crime and insecurity. The Ecuadorian President hopes that allowing citizens to be armed for self-defense will provide some relief as crime has become difficult to control. "We have a common enemy: petty crime, drug trafficking, and organized crime," Lasso said late on Saturday in a message posted on Twitter. To fight rising insecurity, the government will allow civilians to carry and use guns, he added.
#13,
What was CHAZ then?