The now-former police officer who fatally shot a 20-year-old man in Minnesota on Sunday will face a second-degree manslaughter charge. Kimberly Potter was arrested at approximately 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and will be booked into the Hennepin County Jail on a 2nd-degree manslaughter charge, according to the the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). The Washington County…
Officer Who Shot Daunte Wright to Be Charged With Second-Degree Manslaughter
China Threat an ‘Unparalleled Priority’ for US Intelligence Community: Spy Chiefs
The Chinese regime is on its way to becoming a “near-peer competitor” for the United States and is the “unparalleled priority” for the country’s intelligence community, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) said on April 14. “China increasingly is a near-peer competitor, challenging the United States in multiple areas while pushing to revise global norms in ways…
City Manager Fired After Calling for Due Process for Minnesota Officer Speaks Out
The now-former city manager who was fired this week over his saying that the police officer who shot Daunte Wright deserved due process said he meant that people needed to examine the facts of the case. “What I was simply saying is that everyone is entitled to an examination of the facts before making a…
Suspect Arrested After Quebec Teacher on Picket Line Struck by Car
MONTREAL—A teacher in Sherbrooke, Que., who was picketing with her colleagues this morning was struck by a car in what police are calling a deliberate gesture. Sherbrooke police spokesman Martin Carrier says the woman was participating in a teachers strike outside her high school around 9:30 a.m. when she was struck by a driver who…
Courts Did Not Fully Hear Trump’s Election-Fraud Challenges: Sen. Rand Paul
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said former President Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud were not fully heard by various state and federal courts. He said that a number of lawsuits that were filed by Trump’s team were dismissed on standing rather than the merits of the argument. Following the Nov. 3 election, Trump’s legal team…
Heed Lessons From Alibaba Case, Chinese Regime Warns 34 Tech Giants
Thirty-four of China’s tech giants were summoned to a meeting in Beijing on April 13 with the Chinese regime’s top regulators, days after it imposed a record $2.8 billion fine on e-commence giant Alibaba. During the meeting hosted by the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, and…
US State Department’s Report on Nigerian Violence Leaves Out Jihad
Commentary Claims of a Christian genocide in Nigeria were discounted by the Department of State’s recently published 2020 Country Report which cites land disputes and farmer-herder competition—not jihadism—as the driver of mass homicides in Nigeria’s North West states. The 17,000-word report posted March 30, 2021 spares just 200 words to explain close to 1,000 brutal murders…
U.S. State Department’s Report on Nigerian Violence Leaves Out Jihad
Claims of a Christian genocide in Nigeria were discounted by the Department of State’s recently published 2020 Country Report which cites land disputes and farmer-herder competition—not jihadism—as the driver of mass homicides in Nigeria’s North West states. The 17,000-word report posted March 30, 2021 spares just 200 words to explain close to 1,000 brutal murders in…
Machines Can Be Broken but Truth Cannot Be Stopped
Dear reader, Sitting down to write these statements is rarely a happy task, because in many cases, they are written as a response to yet another attempt to silence our reporting. Earlier this week, four masked intruders used sledgehammers to attack the printing press of The Epoch Times edition in Hong Kong. While our staff…
Dollar General to Hire up to 20,000 Workers as Economy Rebounds
Dollar General Corp said on Wednesday it would recruit up to 20,000 employees this spring, the latest company to plan a hiring spree as more parts of the U.S. economy reopen and fiscal stimulus kicks in. But the number was lower than the more than 50,000 workers the company hired around the same time last…
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