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…
President Trump is turning increasingly to executive action to push through his election-year agenda, buoyed by a Supreme Court ruling that the White House believes has expanded the president’s power of the pen. The president, who promised an “exciting” few weeks of such action leading up to his formal renomination as the Republican Party candidate,…
(CNN)Seattle police declared a riot on Saturday night and arrested at least 45 people in demonstrations against police violence and the presence of federal law enforcement in cities like Portland, Or…
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…