Michael Brown's father says family still in mourning
On
the eve of the anniversary of Michael Brown being shot and killed
during a confrontation with a police officer, Brown's father said
Saturday that the family still mourns the 18-year-old's death.Read More ...
Trump, longtime campaign adviser split
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Future of pot use in the U.S. remains cloudy
Four
states and Washington D.C. have given the green light to recreational
use of marijuana. Twenty-three states allow for medicinal usage. What's
next for marijuana legalization in the U.S.? Yahoo global news anchor
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Protesters take to Ferguson streets to mark anniversary of Brown killing
The
protest in front of police headquarters took on elements of a street
carnival ahead of the first anniversary of the fatal shooting of unarmed
black teenager Michael Brown by a white officer in the city. "The whole
idea is for people to be able to vent, to express themselves," said
Ferguson police Sergeant Dominica Fuller, one of five African-Americans
on the 50-member police force. Civil rights activists, religious leaders
and others from around the United States have converged on Ferguson, a
mostly black community of about 21,000 people, to commemorate the life
and death of 18-year-old Brown, who was unarmed when he was shot in a
confrontation with a white police officer on Aug. 9, 2014.Read More ...
FBI aid sought in Texas probe of unarmed black teen shot dead by police
By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - The FBI has been asked to help investigate a white police officer's fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager suspected of driving a vehicle through the window of a car dealership in Arlington, Texas, the city's police chief said on Saturday. The shooting death early on Friday of 19-year-old college football player Christian Taylor came two days before the one-year anniversary of the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in an encounter with a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri, that ignited protests in many U.S. cities. "This instance has not occurred in isolation but rather it has occurred as our nation has been wrestling with the topics of social injustice, inequities, racism and police misconduct," Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson said at a news conference.
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About 150 homes evacuated in fast-moving Arizona wildfire: authorities
By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - A raging fire broke out on Saturday in a wildlife refuge in northwestern Arizona near the California border, forcing the evacuation of about 150 homes, fire officials said. Authorities ordered the mandatory evacuations from homes in the rural area after the wildfire sparked on Saturday afternoon grew to 2,000 acres in the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge, said Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman Dolores Garcia. The American Red Cross had set up a shelter for displaced residents.
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Pennsylvania's top prosecutor arraigned on criminal charges
NORRISTOWN,
Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's top prosecutor barely spoke at her
arraignment Saturday on charges including a felony count of perjury, but
her attorney stressed afterward that she has no plans to resign,
despite growing pressure even among her fellow Democrats.Read More ...
Trump dumped from conservative gathering over remarks about Megyn Kelly
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Biden expected to decide about race after weeklong retreat
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Vice President Joe Biden and his wife are retreating from
Washington for a week in South Carolina with little on their schedule
but a momentous decision to make: whether he should run for president.Read More ...
Trump's rivals criticize comment about female moderator
ATLANTA
(AP) — Donald Trump's bombast continued to roil the Republican
presidential race Saturday as several rivals criticized his treatment of
a Fox News debate moderator. The organizer of a conservative political
convention rescinded the businessman's prime-time speaking slot,
angering those eager to hear from the businessman.Read More ...
Trump dumped from conservative event in Atlanta over 'inappropriate' comments
By
Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate
Donald Trump was dumped from a prime speaking role to an important
gathering of conservative activists on Friday for his criticism of Fox
News anchor Megyn Kelly after a combustible debate performance. Trump
was scheduled to deliver the keynote address on Saturday night at a
conference in Atlanta organized by Red State, an influential
conservative group. Red State chief Erick Erickson said he had
disinvited Trump from the event because of what he described as
"demeaning" remarks about Kelly who was one of three moderators during
the first major Republican debate on Thursday night in Cleveland.Read More ...
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