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Hillary Clinton on Monday called for an end to the "madness" after the death of three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, condemning a series of recent shootings involving police and vowing to hold those who kill police officers legally accountable. "They represent the rule of law itself.
Howard Wilkinson, right, takes a picture of a bobblehead for sale of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Sunday in Cleveland. The Republican National Convention starts Monday, in Cleveland.
In the wake of a series of black men's shooting deaths during encounters with police and the killing of five police officers in Dallas by a sniper targeting white law enforcement officers, several of the nation's leading news organizations - The Washington Post and ABC News, the New York Times and CBS News - decided to include questions about race relations in their political polls. Among the questions: How would you describe the state of race relations? Are they getting better or worse? And should the next president focus on racial issues? Here's the takeaway.
Officers Montrell Jackson, Matthew Gerald and Brad Garafola were killed Sunday after being ambushed and shot by a lone gunman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Their deaths have kept the spotlight on a region where the July 5 shooting death of Alton Sterling at the hands of police began what has been two weeks of national turmoil.
Donald Trump said in a Monday morning interview that he felt there is "something going on" with President Barack Obama's response to the recent spate of attacks on law enforcement. "I watched the president, and sometimes the words are OK, but you just look at the body language - there's something going on.
The Republican National Convention is set to kick off as the nation reels from another deadly shooting and dissident delegates stage a longshot, last-gasp effort to deny Donald Trump the GOP nomination for president. Amid the tumult, it was undeniably Trump's moment - a week at the pinnacle of American politics that few could have imagined when the New York billionaire entered the race a year ago.
Baton Rouge police officers run from the emergency room ramp as a man is taken into custody after a gun was found in his vehicle near the entrance of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center on Sunday in Baton Rouge, where wounded officers were taken. BATON ROUGE -- Three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers investigating a report of a man with a rifle were killed Sunday, less than two weeks after a black man was fatally shot by Baton Rouge police in a confrontation that sparked national protests.
Confronting another killing of police officers, President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Americans to tamp down inflammatory words and actions as a violent summer collides with the nation's heated presidential campaign. Obama said the motive behind Sunday's killing of three officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was still unknown.
The Republican National Convention will open Monday under the pall of antipolice violence, a development likely to bring a new emphasis to presumptive nominee Donald Trump's repeated pledges to make law and order a theme of both his nominating convention and the looming fall campaign against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Baton Rouge police officer Randy Bonaventure takes a bouquet of flowers at the Our Lady of the Lake Hospital where the police officers were brought today. Photo / AP The deadly shootings of police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, today, coming after the coup attempt and subsequent roundup of plotters in Turkey over the weekend, which followed a devastating attack in the French city of Nice, all have combined to redraw the backdrop for the Republican National Convention, which opens in Cleveland tomorrow.
President Barack Obama said Sunday authorities had yet to determine the motive of the man who fatally shot three police officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge, La., and he urged Americans to "temper" their words.
Dozens of people have gathered in New Jersey to mark the second anniversary of the death of Eric Garner, whose chokehold death became a rallying cry for protests over police killings of black men. A 59-year-old man who authorities say drove a rented car from Arizona to a rural Nevada town and detonated two bombs at the house of former co-workers shot himself dead before the blasts erupted, according to autopsy... Several officers have been shot in Baton Rouge Sunday morning while on duty less than a mile from police headquarters, police said.
Republican Donald Trump is blaming a "lack of leadership" for Sunday's shooting of police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Trump says in a statement posted on his Twitter and Facebook pages that "We grieve for the officers killed in Baton Rouge today."
Police-community relations in Baton Rouge have been tense since the killing earlier this month of 37-year-old black man Alton Sterling. Baton Rouge police shooting: What we know Police-community relations in Baton Rouge have been tense since the killing earlier this month of 37-year-old black man Alton Sterling.
Sterling was shot July 5 outsi... . Family attorney Justin Bamberg, left, comforts Na'Quincy, 10, son of Alton Sterling, at the conclusion Alton's burial, at the Mount Pilgrim Benevolent Society Cemetery in Baton Rouge, La., Friday, July 15, 2016.
These fractured thoughts were all I could muster upon waking Friday to news of the ambush on Dallas police. They were still fresh in my mind from the night before when I'd turned in early, exhausted by the images of 32-year-old Philando Castile dying in Minnesota after a police officer shot him.
Black Lives Matter protests have erupted across the country in the wake of multiple police killings of black people recorded on video in rapid succession. Riot police recently pushed a protest back onto the property of one of the members.
DeRay Mckesson: Criticism of Black Lives Matter dishonest Activist says critics like Rudy Giuliani want to deflect attention from police brutality. Check out this story on sctimes.com: http://usat.ly/29InND6 Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson walks out of the Baton Rouge jail in Baton Rouge, La.
Protest were planned all over Baton Rouge by groups demanding justice for Alton Sterling, a black man killed by whit... . Jay Morrison gives a speech in front of the Triple S convenience store in Baton Rouge, Saturday, July 9, 2016.
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