Dallas Koreatown salon shooting was anti-Asian hate crime: indictments

A man charged in connection with a shooting in Dallas’s Koreatown earlier this year was indicted for alleged hate crimes against Asian Americans.  Dallas County Criminal District Attorney John Creuzot announced Tuesday that a Dallas County grand jury had returned seven indictments against 37-year-old Jeremy Smith for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.  Smith was arreste

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NotedDC — Democrats take less is more approach to raid

Democrats spent a second day largely staying out of the fray surrounding the FBI’s search of former President Trump’s estate in Florida.  Some strategists believe that on this issue, less is more from the White House and the Biden administration is taking heed, saying only that it didn’t know about the search ahead of time, 

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How Republicans came to distrust the FBI

Republican outrage over the FBI’s search of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home follows years of growing skepticism and distrust of the agency shaped by Trump’s own bitter attacks against probes into his 2016 campaign.  It is now culminating in a GOP, the traditional party of law and order, at times looking like it is in a political war with the FBI. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) in response to the FBI seizing Rep. Scott Perry’s (R-Pa.) cell phone on Tuesday,  

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Health Care — Biden signs bill expanding veterans' health benefits

The kids are going to be alright. A Little League batter who was hit in the head with a pitch walked to the mound 

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A climate-ish bill passed — now what?

The Inflation Reduction Act, which recently passed in the Senate, was years in the making. Not just the last two years, or since the Waxman-Markey bill failed to pass the Senate in 2009. This bill has been waiting for its day in the sun since 1965 when President Lyndon Johnson’s science advisers first

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