A man was arrested for holding a Hong Kong independence flag during demonstrations against a new Chinese law, according to police. The National Security Law criminalizes secessionist activities in Hong Kong and gives China’s central government sweeping powers in enforcing the law, The Wall Street Journal reported. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke at a U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs ...

Forbes unpublished an article Monday in which an environmental activist apologized for scaring people about climate change. Michael Shellenberger’s article was originally published by Forbes Sunday, but was taken down one day later. Shellenberger, who is the founder and president of Environmental Progress, decried “climate alarmism” in the article, which he posted on his website after Forbes took it down. ...

A socialist member of the Seattle City Council blamed capitalism for the latest shooting in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in a series of tweets Monday. Councilmember Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative, a national political party that advocates for policies such as a $15 minimum wage. A 16-year-old died and a 14-year-old is still being treated ...

President Donald Trump will not follow restrictions put in place Wednesday that requires New Jersey’s visitors to quarantine for 14 days, according to the White House. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey joined Govs. Andrew Cuomo of New York and Ned Lamont of Connecticut Wednesday to announce that visitors must quarantine when arriving any of the three states, but ...

The U.S. Park Police clashed with rioters in Lafayette Square outside of the White House late in May, according to video footage. The U.S. Department of the Interior released the footage titled “US Park Police Assaulted During Violent Protest in Lafayette Park” on Wednesday. Protests have been occurring in the wake of the death of George Floyd, who died May ...

Virgin Galactic and NASA have announced a deal Monday marking the beginning of a program to send private citizens into space. The Space Act Agreement will enable private citizens to purchase trips to the International Space Station (ISS), the press release said. The program may also lead to private citizens conducting commercial research on the International Space Station. “This program ...

The Trump campaign rejected a claim alleging that President Donald Trump’s Saturday rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma was trolled by an army of TikTok users. Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale denied the allegation in a statement Sunday and attacked the media for pushing the story, according to Politico. “Leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, thinking they somehow impacted rally ...

An Atlanta-based company that provides mortgages nationwide fired an employee who is a relative of the police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks, Thursday night. Melissa Rolfe is the stepmother of Garrett Rolfe, the Atlanta police officer who shot Brooks in the parking lot of a Wendy’s restaurant on June 12, investigators said. The death of Brooks led to protests ...

There is a disparity between how Americans view policing and how they view policing in their own communities, a national poll found. Seventy-seven percent of respondents said they approved of how their local police did their job, according to the Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday. Debate over police reform has been heating up in the wake of the death of George ...

The New York Police Department’s anti-crime unit has been disbanded, the department announced on Monday. The citywide unit was comprised of roughly 600 plainclothes officers tasked with removing illegal guns from the streets, NBC News reported. The change represents “a seismic shift in the culture of how the NYPD polices this great city,” Commissioner Dermot Shea said at a news ...

Indian and Chinese military forces clashed Monday night on the India-China border leading to at least three deaths in the first deadly border confrontation between the two nations in four decades, according to CNN. The violent skirmish took place in the long-disputed Aksai Chin-Ladakh region on the northern tip of India where “de-escalation” was taking place, according to CNN. Three ...

The suspect in the shooting of a California sheriff’s deputy was killed by police Thursday evening capping a multi-day search for the man, according to the Paso Robles Police Department. Suspect Mason James Lira first engaged with the police Wednesday morning when he began shooting a handgun at the police station. After he fled the scene, a manhunt involving multiple ...

Protesters toppled a statue of Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, Wednesday night as part of ongoing nationwide demonstrations against racial inequality and police brutality. A crowd gathered, singing and chanting, to watch as the toppled statue was taken away by Richmond police, according to NBC12. The crowd is heard chanting “f*** that statue” as police placed the Davis statue on ...

Protesters attacked Christopher Columbus statues in Richmond, Virginia and Boston Tuesday night. The Columbus statue in Richmond’s Byrd Park was toppled, set on fire, and thrown into a nearby lake, ABC affiliate WRIC News reported. The Boston statue, located in Christopher Columbus Park, was discovered decapitated Wednesday morning, according to Boston 25 News. The Richmond statue is seen ablaze after ...

A man who allegedly broke into a MLB stadium screamed “Black Lives Matter” as he damaged the field with a tractor, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday. Keyon A. Lambert is accused of breaking into and causing $40,000 worth of damage to Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 2, according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Miller Park is home ...