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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder called Thursday for better record-keeping on how often police officers use force and are themselves attacked, saying the current data is incomplete and inadequate. With his remarks, Holder joined police union officials, academics and others who have urged collection of more detailed statistical data on officer fatalities and […]
What tha …? is the first reaction that comes to mind upon reading the headline to this story. But the headline says it all. The Miami police department has got some explaining to do as to why they used six photos of actual human beings — who happened to be adult black men — as […]
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — The hospital treating victims of a deadly prison bus crash in West Texas said Thursday that relatives aren’t being allowed to visit the inmates because of a longstanding policy, despite demands from the inmates’ families to see them. Eight inmates and two veteran officers were killed when their bus skidded off […]
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he’s been delivering a message to potential donors and staffers urging him to jump head-first into a campaign for president: Relax. Speaking far more openly about a potential White House bid than he has publicly in the past, Christie on Thursday evening did not dispute […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Former national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told jurors Thursday she was stunned to learn that a classified mission to thwart Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions — now at the heart of a criminal leak trial — had been disclosed to a reporter. Rice testified for the prosecution in U.S. District Court at […]
Marion Barry’s son wants to follow in his footsteps – but he’s not choosing the right ways to do it. Washington D.C. police say Marion Christopher Barry, who is running for his father’s Ward 8 D.C. Council seat, is a suspect in a bank vandalism in D.C.’s Chinatown earlier this week. The Washington Post reports: […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Swiftly expanding trade ties with Cuba, the Obama administration opened the door to easier travel and a wide range of new export opportunities with the communist island starting Friday, punching the biggest hole to date in America’s half-century-old embargo. Less than a month after the Cold War foes agreed to end their […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former substitute teacher who showed a movie featuring graphic sex and violence to a high school class has been convicted of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles. Sheila Kearns showed the film, “The ABCs of Death,” during five periods of a Spanish class at East High School in Columbus in April […]
We’re not sure if this is extreme laziness or if she has the ultimate tenacity, but Hillary Marshall just accomplished the unthinkable. She finished Netflix.…
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is in the hot seat this week after ousting fire chief Kelvin Cochran for handing out copies of his Christian self-help book…
President Barack Obama’s “America’s College Promise“ plan seeks to make two years of community or technical college “as free and universal as high school.” Students would need…
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chair G. K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) issued a stern rebuke to members of the Republican Party Wednesday after a top leader said…
