The mother of an unarmed black teenager shot dead by a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri, walked with hundreds of protesters on Saturday in the St. Louis suburb, part of a weekend of protests against police violence.
Seven New Jersey high school students have been charged following a string of sexual assaults in a hazing controversy that prompted officials to cancel the remainder of the school's football season, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday that he was hesitant to bail out American International Group (AIG.N) in 2008, but he was primarily concerned that the insurer "was on the brink of default" and not about punishing AIG.