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DETROIT (AP) — Protests by University of Missouri black students that forced the school’s administration to address racism and other problems mirror efforts decades ago that led many majority white schools to create African-American studies and other programs. But those programs and some ethnic studies departments across the country are struggling with funding, low-staffing and […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California police officer was shot to death in his own car as he was getting off work in what investigators said Thursday was a botched robbery attempt by two young men and a teenager who were arrested within hours. Downey police Officer Ricardo “Ricky” Galvez, 29, was in plainclothes in […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago said Thursday it will comply with a judge’s order and soon release a video of a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times — images that some worry could lead to unrest similar to protests that other cities have seen after police-involved deaths. The announcement from […]
Haben Girma is our new hero. The 27-year-old lawyer is the first deaf-blind alumna of Harvard Law School.
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director James Comey said Thursday there is no credible threat to the United States following the Paris terror attacks, and that investigators have found no links between the attackers and the U.S. Appearing before reporters alongside Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Comey said he was aware that the Islamic State group and […]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The latest on the sentencing of former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle for sex crimes (all times local): 1 p.m. A judge has sentenced former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle to 15 years and eight months in prison for trading in child pornography and having sex with underage prostitutes. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton […]
PARIS (AP) — The latest on the deadly attacks in Paris. (All times local): 4:30 p.m. France’s interior minister says officials were told on Monday — three days after the deadly attacks that killed 129 people — that Belgian jihadi Abdelhamid Abaaoud had been spotted in Greece. Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Thursday the tip […]
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate was executed Wednesday for setting a fire that killed his 18-month-old daughter and her two young half-sisters at an East Texas home 15 years ago. Raphael Holiday, 36, became the 13th convicted killer put to death this year in Texas, which carries out capital punishment more than any […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The video is graphic, according to some who have seen it: A black teenager wielding a small knife is walking away from Chicago police officers when an officer opens fire, shooting the teen 16 times. Police have refused to release footage of the October 2014 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, but […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Bill de Blasio said New York City will not be intimidated by a newly released Islamic State group video showing images of Times Square, and that residents should continue to go to work and live their lives. The video was released Wednesday, just a week before the city goes into […]
NEW YORK (AP) — “Between the World and Me,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’ brief, unflinching meditation on race and police violence, won the National Book Award for nonfiction on Wednesday night. The fiction prize was given to Adam Johnson’s “Fortune Smiles,” an eclectic and edgy story collection set everywhere from the former East Germany to a Louisiana […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a Minneapolis police officer has pushed racial tensions in the city’s small but concentrated minority community to the fore, with a police precinct besieged by a makeshift encampment and hundreds of protesters in recent days. Police have tried to improve race relations in […]
