| Oath Keepers return to Ferguson, angering police Posted: 11 Aug 2015 12:41 PM PDT  A group of five heavily armed white men calling themselves the Oath Keepers arrived in Ferguson, Mo., late Monday night, angering police who feared their presence would only inflame tensions.
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| Donald Trump: 'I whine until I win' Posted: |
| Sen. Claire McCaskill on Ferguson, Iran, Trump Posted:  Katie Couric sits down for an interview with Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), who remains undecided about the president's Iran Deal...
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| Police release video they say shows Ferguson suspect with gun Posted: 11 Aug 2015 03:32 PM PDT  By Scott Malone FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - St. Louis County Police released a video on Tuesday that they said shows a suspect, who has been accused of firing on police, drawing a pistol from his pants during protests in strife-torn Ferguson, Missouri. Tyrone Harris, 18, was shot by police and is in critical condition. The incident occurred on Sunday in the St. Louis suburb where largely peaceful demonstrations over police shootings of unarmed black men have been punctuated by violence.
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| New Hampshire to make criminals face victims' families at sentencing Posted: 11 Aug 2015 02:33 PM PDT  New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan on Tuesday signed a law that requires convicted criminals to appear in court at sentencing when victims' families and friends are given the opportunity to express their pain. In the end, convicted murderer Seth Mazzaglia, 33, dropped the request and attended the sentencing, where family members of his victim, Elizabeth "Lizzy" Marriott, expressed profound grief and anger toward him.
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| New York probes allegations of inmates beaten after prison escape Posted: 11 Aug 2015 04:06 PM PDT  Authorities are investigating allegations that guards beat and abused dozens of inmates in an upstate New York prison after the daring escape of two convicted killers in June, state corrections officials said on Tuesday. The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said it had been investigating for several weeks the allegations of prisoner abuse at the Clinton Correctional Center, which were first reported in the New York Times on Tuesday. Prisoners left behind in the so-called honor section of the prison, reserved for inmates with good behavior including Richard Matt and David Sweat before their June 6 escape, described "being beaten while handcuffed, choked, and slammed against cell bars and walls," the Times reported.
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| John Kerry: Dollar could suffer if U.S. walks away from Iran deal Posted:  If the United States walks away from the nuclear deal struck with Iran last month in Vienna and demands that its allies comply with U.S. sanctions, the dollar may soon cease to be the world's reserve currency, the top U.S. diplomat...
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| Sanders lets civil rights activists open LA campaign event Posted: 11 Aug 2015 02:08 AM PDT  Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders vowed that he would fight harder than any other presidential candidate to end institutional racism in front of a packed Los Angeles arena, two days after ...
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| Police, protesters face off again in Ferguson Posted: 11 Aug 2015 03:48 PM PDT  Police arrested nearly two dozen people during another night of demonstrations.
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| Officials downstream from Colorado mine spill demand answers Posted: 11 Aug 2015 01:15 AM PDT  Local officials in towns downstream from where millions of gallons of mine waste spilled into a southwest Colorado river are demanding answers about possible long-term threats to the water supply. Colorado ...
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| Charges filed against Washington Post reporter who covered 2014 Ferguson protests Posted: 10 Aug 2015 07:21 PM PDT  A Washington Post reporter arrested last year while covering protests in Ferguson, Missouri, following the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager has been charged with trespassing and interfering with a police officer, the newspaper said on Monday. Wesley Lowery, 25, was arrested after police asked him and another reporter to leave a McDonald's restaurant being used as a staging area for press coverage of the demonstrations that occurred after the Aug. 9, 2014, shooting of Michael Brown. The Post said Lowery received a court summons dated on Aug. 6 ordering him to appear in St. Louis County municipal court on Aug. 24 or face the risk of arrest.
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