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Baltimore police officers responding to the sound of gunshots near an apartment b... Baltimore police officers responding to the sound of gunshots near an apartment building fatally shot a man who fired at them with an "AR-15-style" gun, authorities said early Friday. Baltimore police officers responding to the sound of gunshots near an apartment building fatally shot a man who fired at them with an "AR-15-style" gun, authorities said early Friday.
Sen. Tim Scott and Rep. Jim Clyburn will co-host a panel discussion on racial reconciliation at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday evening, joining survivors and family members of victims of the Charleston shooting a year ago. Scott, South Carolina's junior Republican Senator and Clyburn, the third-ranking House Democrat, will speak about the bipartisan civil rights pilgrimage they led to South Carolina in March with the Washington-based nonprofit Faith and Politics Institute.
Here's Grace, a sweetly smiling little girl in a wheelchair. Now here's her mother, Lauren Glaros: "When I saw Donald Trump mock a disabled person, I was just shocked," she says.
Long regarded as having one of the shrewdest political minds among recent presidents, Bill Clinton has at times angered and alienated Democrats and Republicans alike while campaigning for his wife, Hillary Clinton. His apparently spur-of-the moment decision to chat this week with Attorney General Loretta Lynch even as her agency is overseeing a sensitive investigation of his wife's use of a private email server as secretary of state was only the latest in a series of loose-cannon episodes.
Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee are divided over whether to directly blame then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the events that killed four Americans in Libya in 2012. One committee member, Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas, calls Clinton's actions ``morally reprehensible'' and says ``you have every right to be disgusted'' by the response from her and others.
Bernard Lafayette was all smiles as he watched his civil rights comrade John Lewis commandeer the floor of the U.S. House for an old-fashioned, marathon sit-in over gun legislation. Mike Simpson cried as his wife was sentenced to life in prison for killing their children in their South Carolina home.
Authorities were seeking a pickup truck due to reports that it was driving erratically minutes before it struck a group of bicyclists on a street in western Michigan, killing five, a local prosecutor said. Police fielded complaints that a pickup truck was being driven erratically just minutes before the vehicle slammed into a group of bicyclists in western Michigan, killing five, authorities said.
The first evidence that something was amiss in the American electorate came last February 20, when Donald Trump won the South Carolina primary. You don't need to be steeped in the minutiae of United States politics to work out why that happened - all you have to do is clear out all Trump's talk about walls and borders and focus on the US' intervention in Iraq.