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More Senate Republicans have backed Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's pledge to block any nominee President Obama chooses to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.
The Department of Justice said Wednesday that it would sue the city of Ferguson, Missouri, to force the city to adopt police reforms negotiated with the federal government.
Despite a rising number of Senate Republicans saying they will block any nominee until a new president is in place 11 months from now, President Obama says he expects the Senate to do its job and confirm his nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on...
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Brazil is battling an economic recession, a massive Zika outbreak, and its worst political crisis in over two decades.
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Under California’s penal code, "felony lynching" was defined as attempting to take a person out of police custody.
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Muhammad Ali was considered by many to be the greatest boxer of all time, but he will also be remembered for his activism against racism and war.
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Sanders criticized AP and NBC News for announcing last night that Hillary Clinton had reached the number of delegates needed to capture the nomination before today's vote.
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A group of senators has unveiled a bipartisan measure to prevent people on the FBI’s terrorism watchlist from purchasing guns.
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A long-awaited British inquiry into the Iraq War blames former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for deliberately exaggerating the threat posed by Saddam Hussein in the lead-up to the Iraq War.
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Hundreds of protesters are gathered outside the Minnesota governor’s house in St. Paul, following the fatal police shooting of African American man Philando Castile during a traffic stop for a broken tail light.
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On July 4, off-duty New York police officer Wayne Isaacs shot and killed Delrawn Small, an unarmed African American man.
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President Obama will meet today in Washington, D.C., with law enforcement officials and civil rights leaders, as daily demonstrations against police brutality continue nationwide.
