The police in Austin, Texas, have not identified the motorist who fatally shot a protester after driving his car in the direction of marchers.Videotranscripttranscript1 Killed in Shooting at Protest in AustinOne person was killed in a shooting at a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin, Texas, after a car drove into the crowd.“Every night!” [chanting]…
Police have clashed with protesters in Seattle, Oakland and Richmond amid a wave of public anger over President Donald Trump's planned "surge" of federal agents into major cities. Police in Seattle used flashbang grenades and pepper spray against protesters who set fire to construction trailers outside a youth jail The sounds of repeated small detonations rang…
The body of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who died at the age of 80 on July 17 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., for the final time Sunday.Sunday found him crossing alone — instead of arm-in-arm with civil rights and political leaders — after his…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…