Iraqi army and Kurdish forces closed in on Islamic State fighters on Saturday in a push to break the Sunni militants’ siege of the Shi’ite town of Amerli, army sources said. Two offi... Continue reading
As the story of Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson’s shooting of Michael Brown begins to look less clear-cut than we were led to believe by Brown’s friend, Dorian Johns... Continue reading
The international spotlight has recently been shining on Ferguson, Mo., after an 18-year-old black man was fatally shot by a white police officer. There was massive national and international me... Continue reading
The police chief of a small Texas town was killed Saturday while attempting to arrest a man on a warrant, authorities said. Bexar County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau told The Associated Press that El... Continue reading
U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered a review of the distribution of military hardware to state and local police out of concern at how such equipment has been used during racial unrest in Fer... Continue reading
American police kill 500 or more Americans every year There are reports that American police kill 500 or more Americans every year. Few of these murdered Americans posed a threat to police. ...; Continue reading
The moment Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson shot an unarmed teenager, a 25-year-old Supreme Court case became the prism through which his actions will be legally judged. To most ... Continue reading
Educators encouraged to “change the subject” if Ferguson comes up Despite the plethora of lessons to be gleaned from the events in Ferguson, Mo., teachers at schools close to the action ar... Continue reading
DHS has issued a bulletin drawing attention to the hactivist group Anonymous’ plans for nationwide protests. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued a bulletin drawing attentio... Continue reading
Victor Davis Hanson Violence following the recent fatal shooting of an unarmed robbery suspect in Ferguson, Missouri, has tragically followed a predictable script. On average, more than 6,000 Af... Continue reading
John Hawkins If you say that we should have an “honest” discussion about what’s going on in Ferguson, it makes people think that hard truths are going to be spoken and we’... Continue reading
In the eight days since 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by a police officer, all St. Louis County Police have said about the shots that killed him is that there were “more than a few.... Continue reading
Protesters who have for days lined a busy suburban St. Louis street not far from the place where a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager have walked from nearby apartments,... Continue reading
Doug Giles Things are getting dicey out there in the United States of Acrimony, eh? People are pissed. They’re sick of the government … sick of control … sick of the inequities and... Continue reading
One person was shot and critically wounded and seven arrested early on Sunday as police in Ferguson, Missouri, clashed with protesters when a curfew was imposed following days of unrest over a b... Continue reading
Minutes before a police officer shot him dead, Michael Brown had become a suspect in the theft of cigars from a store, according to police reports released on Friday after days of protests in a ... Continue reading