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A man showed up at a hospital in Washington state this week and fatally shot himself -- after firing numerous shots at the boyfriend of his estranged wife, killing him, authorities said.The gunman, the woman and the boyfriend each went outside to talk after the gunman showed up around 7:45 a.m. Tuesday at St. Clare…

ATLANTA (AP) — Jon Ossoff, a young Georgia media executive known for breaking fundraising records during a 2017 special election loss for a U.S. House seat, beat back a field of Democratic primary opponents to win a spot taking on Republican Sen. David Perdue in November. Ossoff received about 50.7% of the votes, according to…

After days of clashes with protesters outside the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct, authorities backed down on Monday, removing barricades and boarding up the building. Since then, protesters have moved in, proclaiming the area the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” where the police are forbidden, food is free and documentaries are screened at night.To some protesters,…

June 10, 2020 | 11:01pm Protesters in Virginia beheaded four Confederate statues and pulled down another with a tow rope on Wednesday night. Photos and videos posted on Twitter showed a demonstrator taking a sledgehammer to the head of one of the statues on the Portsmouth Confederate monument, which was built in the late 1800s…

A pair of institutions traditionally associated with white conservative men arrived at two very different conclusions Wednesday about symbols of America's racist past.