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Days after being exonerated and freed from an Alabama prison, Anthony Ray Hinton recounts how he got through nearly 30 years on death row as an innocent man.
A white South Carolina police officer has been charged with murder after a video showed him shooting an apparently unarmed African-American man who was running away.
Over the past week, videos of police killings of unarmed African Americans in South Carolina and Oklahoma have led to charges against the officers who fired the fatal shots.
An explosive new report reveals that the federal government secretly tracked billions of U.S. phone calls years before the 9/11 attacks.
At least 3,700 people are confirmed dead and more than 6,500 have been injured after Saturday's devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal.
For the second time in six months, National Guard troops have been deployed in response to police brutality protests.
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In 2015, "Democracy Now!" spoke to civil rights and anti-war activist Tom Hayden, who died this week at age 76, about the protests in Baltimore and around the country over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.
Police in riot gear fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters in Baltimore who defied the curfew when it began Tuesday at 10 p.m.
Protests continue in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray as more evidence emerges that the 25-year-old died from injuries obtained inside a police transport van.
New details have emerged on how the American Psychological Association, the world's largest group of psychologists, aided government-sanctioned torture under President George W. Bush.
After advocating against nuclear weapons for decades, leading American psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton has recently focused on the global threat posed by climate change.
Officers indicted over Freddie Gray's death demand that Baltimore's top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby recuse herself from the case because of alleged conflicts of interest and "egregious" violations.
