Americans fear their country is spiraling out of control following an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, with worries growing that the Nov. 5 election could spark more political violence, a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Tuesday found.
Four in five Americans fear country is sliding into chaos, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Eric Garner’s ‘I can’t breathe’ continues to echo across NYC and the world 10 years after his death
![Eric Garner ten years later](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1024x576+0+0/resize/900/quality/85/format/webp/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F62%2Fff%2F178c016046b19492d81cbc13b6cf%2Fap24033760331939.jpg)
Eric Garner’s dying declaration, “I can’t breathe,” was repeated 11 times on a Staten Island sidewalk. His utterances were muffled by an NYPD officer’s chokehold around his neck.
But the words, immortalized in an onlooker’s cell phone video, continue to echo across New York City and the globe as the 10-year anniversary of his killing approaches.
Chants of “I can’t breathe” still sound in protests against police violence and racial injustice around the world – just as they did that summer a decade ago. The words have graced presidents’ lips, the backs of athletes’ jerseys, and even show up on stage. A Lincoln Center event Friday remembering Garner features a 75-person choir, in a “project that gathers us together as co-conspirators – to breathe and keep breathing any way we can.”
Despite those continuing reverberations, some Black scholars, police reformers and civil rights activists are disappointed there hasn’t been more progress. They count Garner’s death — among a string of police killings of unarmed Black men that came in quick succession – as a catalyst for the reform movement that gave rise to Black Lives Matter, a cause they see as stalled.
Out-of-state officers fatally shot a man blocks from RNC, angering Milwaukee residents
![Police kill man near RNC](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/824a671/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2483+0+350/resize/1760x1084!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F59%2Ff9%2F591b10f14fa2b909999251ca2123%2Fpxl-20240717-001758692-mp.jpg)
Five Ohio police officers in Wisconsin for the Republican National Convention shot at a man who was wielding two knives near the convention, killing him, said Milwaukee's police chief.
Milwaukee Chief Jeffrey Norman said Tuesday at a news conference that the man who police shot had a knife in each hand and refused police commands.
Thousands of officers from multiple jurisdictions are in Milwaukee providing additional security for the convention.
The shooting fueled anger from residents who questioned why out-of-state officers were in their neighborhood located about a mile from the convention site.
A vigil is being held for the man tonight in Milwaukee.
Neo-Nazi leader charged over alleged plot to poison New York Jewish children
Michail Chkhikvishvili, a 21-year-old man from the Republic of Georgia, was indicted on four charges including soliciting hate crimes and acts of mass violence, according to a statement from the US justice department. It was not known if he has an attorney.
Chkhikvishvili, who has various nicknames including Commander Butcher, allegedly leads the Maniacs Murder Cult, which prosecutors said is an international extremist group that adheres to a “neo-Nazi accelerationist ideology and promotes violence and violent acts against racial minorities, the Jewish community and other groups it deems ‘undesirables’”.
Residents of Illinois town evacuate as officials warn of ‘imminent’ dam failure
![Illinois town evacuated](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5e85c3b17541c2d653d49277597b118bca142139/0_119_1770_1180/master/1770.jpg?width=1140&dpr=2&s=none)
Residents in Nashville, Illinois, are evacuating their homes after emergency management officials warned the failure of the city’s dam was “imminent”.
Nashville, a small city in Illinois with a population of nearly 3,000 people, and surrounding areas have been hit with severe storms which have caused flooding, overwhelming the city’s infrastructure. More than 5in of rain fell in the region within six hours on Tuesday.
“Attention The Failure of the Nashville dam is imminent. Please evacuate your home at this time. If you are in the grey box, you need evacuate now!” the Washington county emergency management agency wrote on Tuesday on Facebook.
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez convicted on all counts at corruption trial, cementing political downfall
The jury deliberated for more than 12 hours over three days before reaching a verdict in a trial that had taken nine weeks. Menendez, 70, had pleaded not guilty to the charges, which included bribery, acting as a foreign agent and obstructing justice.
The trial centered on what federal prosecutors called several overlapping bribery schemes in which the senator and his wife Nadine Menendez accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars and car and mortgage payments from three businessmen who wanted his help.
Europe reacts to J.D. Vance as Trump's VP pick: ‘This is a disaster for Ukraine’
“This is a disaster for Ukraine.” Those are the words of one senior EU official today as Europe reacted to Donald Trump’s choice of Ohio senator J.D. Vance as his running mate.
While Europe was already panicked about a second Trump presidency and its implications for U.S. foreign policy, the addition of Vance to the GOP ticket has raised further questions about a potential new administration’s commitment to Ukraine and the transatlantic alliance.
Vance has made his views on Ukraine clear. In 2022, he told Steve Bannon in an interview “I got to be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.” In February 2024, when Vance made his first appearance at the Munich Security Conference, he told POLITICO that the U.S. needed to reassess its support for Ukraine and skipped a meeting with the Ukraine delegation and other senators.
U.N. peacekeepers take cover as Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israel trade attacks
![Volatile fighting between Hezbollah and Israel](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/8192x5464+0+0/resize/1800/quality/85/format/webp/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fd7%2F96%2F5858280a485cb38061e31a7462c6%2Flbn-npr-patrol-southernlebanon-diegoibarrasanchez002.jpg)
For most of the past nine months since the war in Gaza began, Israel and Lebanon confined the border attacks mostly to military targets within a zone a few miles from either side of a historic cease-fire line. But recently, escalated attacks by both sides, which have reached farther into both Lebanon and Israel, have raised concerns about intensified fighting.
Literally in the middle of this confrontation is the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, created in 1978 after Israel invaded the neighboring country. Despite the name’s indication that it would be temporary, UNIFIL has become one the longest-serving peacekeeping missions in the world.
Food aid is piling up inside Gaza. Here's why it's not reaching those in need
![Food not reaching Gazans](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5075x3383+0+0/resize/1800/quality/85/format/webp/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fec%2F4b%2Fbd0d0e4e437b837605da6f2289e8%2Fkerem-shalom-edit-16.jpg)
This scene plays out multiple times daily at Kerem Shalom, now the main artery supplying Gaza with food and medicine. All this activity raises hope that needed aid will reach the more than 2 million Palestinians trapped inside Gaza.
But here's the catch: Much of this humanitarian aid is piling up on the Gaza side of the border instead of traveling the last few miles to those suffering in the 10th month of the war between Israel and Hamas.
Israel blames the United Nations agencies responsible for collecting this aid and distributing it inside Gaza, saying they need to urgently step up aid deliveries.
More Articles...
Page 34 of 1142