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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have unveiled proposed changes to police procedures and accountability, countering Democratic policing legislation in the House. The Senate GOP's “Justice Act” is more modest than the Democrats' House version but is still the most ambitious Republican legislation on police violence and race in memory. President Donald Trump has embraced the Republican legislation, which underscores how swiftly the national conversation on race has been transformed since the death of George Floyd in police custody. The two parties' bills are on a collision course, but momentum favors passage of some version before the November elections.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new book by former national security adviser John Bolton says President Donald Trump pleaded with China’s president during a 2019 summit to help his reelection prospects by purchasing more American farm products. The Associated Press has obtained an advance copy of the book, which the White House is working furiously to block. Bolton writes that he is “hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by re-election calculations.” And he says Trump ”remained stunningly uninformed on how to run the White House, let alone the huge federal government.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The new chief of U.S.-funded international broadcasting has fired the heads of at least three outlets he oversees and replaced their boards with allies. The move is likely to raise fears that Agency for Global Media CEO Michael Pack intends to turn the Voice of America and its sister outlets into Trump administration propaganda machines. The firings came late Wednesday just hours after Pack sought to play down those concerns in an email to staff. Two congressional aides said that among those removed from their positions were the heads of Radio Free Asia, Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe and the Middle East Broadcasting Network.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Black community leaders in Tulsa said they fear a large rally by President Donald Trump in the city this weekend could spark violence. Meanwhile, the state’s governor asked Trump not to visit the site of a race massacre where up to 300 black residents were killed by white mobs in 1921. Tens of thousands of Trump supporters are expected in Tulsa Saturday for the first of a series of rallies across the country. The rally at the 19,000-seat BOK Center would overlap a two-day local celebration of Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the country.
DETROIT (AP) — A dramatic shift has taken place in the nation’s opinions on policing and race, as a new poll finds that more Americans today than five years ago believe police brutality is a very serious problem that too often goes undisciplined and unequally targets black Americans. The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that about half of American adults now say police violence against the public is a “very” or “extremely” serious problem. Only about 3 in 10 said the same in July 2015. Those who say it is not a serious problem has declined from a third in 2015 to about 2 in 10 today.
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