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CLEVELAND (AP) — The fatal shooting of three police officers in Louisiana added new concerns Sunday about security at the Republican National Convention as huge crowds were expected to protest and the city police chief prepared officers to deal with the open carrying of weapons as allowed by state law. Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich […]
UPDATE: Baton Rouge shooter ID’ed as Gavin Long. The man who killed two police officers and a sheriff’s deputy in Baton Rouge Sunday was a former Marine sergeant who served in Iraq and had no known ties to any extremist groups. Long himself confirmed that in a YouTube video he released under and alias before […]
Nineteen-year-old Fred Barley is homeless, but understands the importance of higher education.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is preparing to release a once-classified chapter of a congressional report about the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that questions whether Saudi nationals who helped the hijackers with things like finding apartments and opening bank accounts knew what they were planning. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday that the […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A steady stream of mourners filed past the casket of Alton Sterling, the 37-year-old black man who was shot to death by police as he was pinned to the pavement outside a convenience store. The grieving paused Friday in front of Sterling’s open casket, which was adorned with music notes […]
NICE, France (AP) — The Latest on attack that killed 84 people in Nice (all times local): 5:15 p.m. The Paris prosecutor says 202 people were wounded in the Nice truck attack, with 25 of them on life support amid the 52 in critical condition overall. Prosecutor Francois Molins says Friday that the death toll […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has offered Mike Pence the vice presidential spot on his Republican ticket, and Trump aides have told the Indiana governor the formal announcement event could be made on Saturday. That’s according to a Republican with direct knowledge of the process, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police officers responding to the sound of gunshots near an apartment building fatally shot a man who fired at them with an “AR-15-style” rifle, authorities said early Friday. No officers were wounded nor anyone else in the shooting Thursday night in a neighborhood on the city’s west side, police spokesman T.J. […]
As we reported earlier, Wendy Williams got her a@# handed to her by social media and Roland Martin in particular after she made her ill-advised comments denouncing HBCUs and the NAACP last week on her show. However, today, they were together on Wendy’s purple couch where he dropped even more knowledge and enlightened her on […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Faith leaders and musicians delivered messages of hope Thursday at a funeral for a black Minnesota man who was fatally shot by a suburban St. Paul police officer. Mourners filled the 3,000-seat Cathedral of St. Paul to pay their respects to 32-year-old Philando Castile, whose white casket arrived and left […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of the Louisiana man shot dead by police wants President Barack Obama to help end world racism. The mother of a policeman pleads for ways to keep her son safe. A single mom who has sent her son away from a rough Baltimore neighborhood worries over how to keep him […]
