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Dallas cop-killer Micah Xavier Johnson was an ex-US Army Reservist who grew to hate white people for what he believed was their mistreatment of African-Americans historically. "Why do so many whites (not all) enjoy killi...

Mark Hughes exercised his Second Amendment right, and nearly died for it

The image of the drug lord quickly became fodder for humorous memes.

By Frederic Lemieux, George Washington University Citizens and police officers. Nick Allen, CC BY-SA The use of lethal force by police officers in Minnesota and Baton Rouge has once again sparked protests over the violen...

Typhoon Nepartak weakened to a strong tropical storm as it lashed China's eastern coast Saturday, bringing powerful winds and heavy rains

SALT LAKE CITY -- A person infected with Zika has died in Utah, and while the exact cause is unclear, authorities said Friday it marks the first death related to the virus in the continental U.S. The unidentified Salt La...

One of the cops had just gotten married. Another had a 2-year-old daughter. And a third had been working in a prison in Detroit before landing his dream job with the Dallas Police Department. The five law-enforcement off...

Carson Domey raises thousands of dollars for Boston Children's Hospital each year. He's also sort of a "honorary-lobbyist" for the hospital to promote affiliated bills. Carson Domey is 11-years-old. In June, he secured m...

The British government has rejected an online petition signed by 4.1 million people calling for a new referendum on whether to leave the European Union. Britons voted by 52 to 48 percent, or 17.4 million votes to 16.1 mi...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling on Iran to stop conducting ballistic missile launches, saying they aren't in the spirit of last summer's nuclear deal with six major powers. …

Unconscious bigotry is a tragic part of our make-up, but there is a way to expose it

As the nation debates the use of force by law enforcement amid two high profile shootings of black men, a growing number of groups are training citizens to record and monitor potential excessive force encounters by offic...

An execution scheduled for Thursday would be the sixth carried out by Georgia this year

Turkey's state-run media says the first plane in months carrying Russian tourists to Turkey has arrived in the southern beach resort of Antalya as tense relations between the two countries ease. …

A Spanish hospital says at least one man has been gored and seven other runners injured in an unusual third-day running of the bulls at Pamplona's San Fermin festival. …

U.S. government statistics show the Islamic State group's Twitter traffic plunging 45 percent in the past two years

BATON ROUGE, La. ― Police on Friday night faced off with several hundred protesters in Baton Rouge who were demanding justice for victims of police brutality, particularly Alton Sterling, who was killed here Tuesday. A...

The head of the Cleveland police union expressed concerns Friday about officer safety at the upcoming Republican National Convention in the wake of the Dallas murders - while also criticizing politicians for "fact-less r...

North Korea fired a Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile from the seas southeast of Sinpo City in the country's east, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

WASHINGTON

By Curtis Skinner SAN FRANCISCO

Indian officials say government forces have killed the top rebel commander in their part of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir