Calling out active-duty troops to quell widespread unrest over the death of George Floyd is an option congressional Democrats are warning would only make matters worse.
"He did not offer a word of balm or condolence to those who are grieving," says the bishop who oversees the church. Washington's mayor was more direct: "Shameful!"
"I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated," says Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are pushing a wide range of proposals such as banning chokeholds as a response to the protests across the country following the death of George Floyd.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the government's response to the protests around the country sparked by George Floyd's death in police custody last week.
President Trump has visited a Catholic shrine Tuesday to promote religious freedom. The D.C. Archbishop criticized this visit and another president's controversial church visit Monday.
The Republican Party has issued an ultimatum to North Carolina, demanding the state commits this week to hold the Republican National Convention in August, or it would be moved elsewhere.
NPR's Michel Martin talks with Elizabeth Goitein, who codirects the Brennan Center for Justice's Liberty & National Security Program, about the 1807 Insurrection Act and presidential emergency powers.
Foreign policy experts warn that scenes of police charging protesters and President Trump calling for military involvement may affect the U.S.'s ability to make a case for democracy globally.