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South Carolina deputy’s history comes to light after shocking video goes viral

Posted: 27 Oct 2015 09:03 AM PDT

Richland County Sheriff's Deputy Ben Fields has a dubious history at the school where he slammed a female student on the ground during an arrest Monday.

Poll finds Donald Trump trailing Ben Carson for first time nationally

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Ben Carson’s record on abortion under scrutiny in Iowa

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Congress aims for fast budget, debt limit passage

Posted: 27 Oct 2015 01:51 PM PDT

A U.S. budget and debt ceiling deal headed toward quick action in Congress on Tuesday as lawmakers rushed to avert yet another fiscal standoff, which threatened to push the federal government into an unprecedented default early next month. House Speaker John Boehner told fellow Republicans he was clearing the way for a vote on Wednesday on the double-barreled measure, which would bust strict spending caps by $80 billion over the next two years in order to pump up defense and domestic programs. It also would extend the Treasury Department's borrowing authority until March 2017.

FBI opens probe of violent arrest of black South Carolina student

Posted: 27 Oct 2015 01:19 PM PDT

Federal authorities launched a civil rights investigation on Tuesday into a white deputy's arrest of a black high school student in South Carolina, after video showed him slamming the teenager to the ground and dragging her across a classroom. The actions by officer Ben Fields at Spring Valley High School in Columbia on Monday drew swift condemnation after video recordings of the incident went viral and raised fresh concerns over whether the use of police in schools can criminalize behavior once handled by educators. At a time of heightened scrutiny of use of force by police, particularly against minorities, the president of the South Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said he felt race was a factor in the arrest and called for Fields to be charged with assault.

Crime still low, says Obama, noting intense police scrutiny

Posted: 27 Oct 2015 04:16 PM PDT

President Barack Obama on Tuesday said violent crime rates in the United States remain low even as police officers come under increased scrutiny in the post-Ferguson, camera-phone era. In remarks to a global conference for law enforcement leaders in Chicago, Obama said data from across the nation "shows that we are still enjoying historically low rates" of violent crime.