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Baltimore violence evokes 1968 riots after MLK assassination
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Thousands of police descend on Baltimore to enforce curfew after riots
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Baltimore violence evokes 1968 riots after MLK assassination

Posted: 28 Apr 2015 12:12 PM PDT

National Guard troops have been dispatched to quell the violence in the streets of Baltimore for the first time since the 1968 riots after the death of Martin Luther King Jr.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to announce 2016 presidential run

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Supreme Court hears historic gay marriage arguments

Posted: 28 Apr 2015 08:17 AM PDT

The debate over gay marriage in America is underway in the Supreme Court, and the cases could make same-sex marriage the law of the land.

Thousands of police descend on Baltimore to enforce curfew after riots

Posted: 28 Apr 2015 04:34 PM PDT

By Ian Simpson and Warren Strobel BALTIMORE (Reuters) - As night falls on Baltimore on Tuesday, thousands of police and National Guard troops fanned out to enforce a new curfew and prevent further violence as the mayor fended off criticism that she responded sluggishly to a night of rioting, looting and fires. More than 3,000 police from Maryland, New Jersey and the District of Columbia, and National Guard members in helmets, took up posts in front of businesses and hospitals in Baltimore a day after the worst rioting in the United States in years. Shops were looted, buildings burned to the ground, 20 officers injured and police arrested more than 250 people in the violence that erupted following Monday's funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died in a hospital on April 19 a week after sustaining injuries in police custody. For nearly a week after Gray died from a spinal injury, protests in Baltimore had been peaceful and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she acted cautiously on Monday because she wanted to avoid a heavy-handed response that would incite more violence.

Commission approves policy for Los Angeles police body cameras

Posted: 28 Apr 2015 03:13 PM PDT

By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Police Commission approved a policy on Tuesday clearing the way for the widespread use of body cameras by patrol officers in the second-largest U.S. city, as tensions rise in the United States over police use-of-force incidents. Mayor Eric Garcetti said in December the city would equip 7,000 Los Angeles Police Department officers with the devices over the next two years to capture their day-to-day interactions with civilians. The commission's 3-1 vote on rules governing the use of the devices brings Los Angeles closer to becoming the largest U.S. city to put body cameras into widespread use. Officials are also testing the use of body cameras by officers in Baltimore, which on Monday saw riots following several days of protests over the death of a black man who suffered a fatal spine injury while in police custody.

Court dismisses appeal in $1 billion divorce of oil executive Hamm

Posted: 28 Apr 2015 01:18 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Sue Ann Arnall, the ex-wife of Oklahoma oil executive Harold Hamm, lost an appeal of the couple's divorce case because she had accepted an award of nearly $1 billion, the state Supreme Court said on Tuesday. In a 7-2 decision, the court ruled in favor of a motion filed in January by Hamm, chief executive officer of oil company Continental Resources Inc, to dismiss Arnall's appeal. In its ruling, the Oklahoma Supreme Court allowed his appeal to proceed despite dismissing Arnall's. Craig Box, a lawyer for Hamm, said he had not read the opinion yet. Last November, an Oklahoma district court ordered Hamm to pay his ex-wife about $1 billion in cash and assets when the couple divorced after a 26-year marriage.

Iran diverts Marshall Islands cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz

Posted: 28 Apr 2015 10:03 AM PDT

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps ships intercepted a Marshall Islands-flagged commercial cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, forcing it "further into Iranian waters," the Pentagon said. Multiple U.S. government sources said there were no Americans aboard the Maersk Tigris.

Baltimore riot shows 'crisis' in community policing: Obama

Posted: 28 Apr 2015 10:09 AM PDT

President Obama condemned rioting in Baltimore, saying there was "no excuse" for the violence, but acknowledged a "slow-rolling crisis" in community policing, especially in treatment of African Americans. "We have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals -- primarily African American, often poor -- in ways that raise troubling questions," Obama told reporters at the White House. "I think there are police departments that have to do some soul-searching. Obama was reacting to the violence that erupted in Baltimore after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American man who died after suffering a spine injury while in police custody.