Destinee Adams

1 week ago | wunc.org | A Martínez |Destinee Adams |Steve Inskeep

Questions loom about how to keep publicly elected officials safe after authorities in Minnesota say that Vance Boelter, the man arrested and charged with murdering one state lawmaker and wounding another, possessed a "hit list" with the names of dozens of other elected officials. Officials say Boelter, 57, shot and killed Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman, and her husband, Mark, in their Brooklyn Park, Minn., home while impersonating a police officer.

3 weeks ago | wusf.org | Steve Inskeep |Destinee Adams

Updated June 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM EDTTop congressional Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., says President Trump's request that Congress claw back billions of dollars already set aside for foreign aid and public broadcasting is "bad on all accounts.""The funding that this rescissions package is cutting is critical to the health and safety of people around the world," Jayapal told Morning Edition.

1 month ago | opb.org | Michel Martin |Destinee Adams

A woman looks at a mural on the wall of Cup Foods during a vigil for George Floyd on May 25, 2022 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Stephen Maturen/Getty ImagesThe death of George Floyd lit a fire in the U.S. in the summer of 2020 — and the years that followed. Floyd died after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for more than 9 minutes. Images caught on cellphone video circulated around the world — moving millions to protest, demonstrate and march in the months following Floyd’s death.

1 month ago | nhpr.org | Michel Martin |Destinee Adams

Updated May 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM EDTThe death of George Floyd lit a fire in the U.S. in the summer of 2020 — and the years that followed. Floyd died after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for more than 9 minutes. Images caught on cellphone video circulated around the world — moving millions to protest, demonstrate and march in the months following Floyd's death. Congressional and state lawmakers pushed for legislative change in the criminal justice system.

1 month ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Michel Martin |Destinee Adams

Updated May 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM MDTIn some ways, George Floyd's story was an Everyman's story. He grew up poor, he struggled in school and eventually fell into substance abuse. Most of the people he crossed paths with remember him as friendly to all, a man of faith who enjoyed a practical joke. But like many other Black men, Floyd found himself interacting with the criminal justice system, and as a large man — well over 6 feet tall — he saw himself as a target .