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More NBA stars join protest over police violence, hundreds march in California

More NBA players joined ongoing nationwide protests against police violence on Tuesday night, as doz...

Dec 10, 2014 06:57 AM EST

New York prosecutor seeks to probe police killings of unarmed civilians

New York State's top prosecutor on Monday sought the power to probe all police killings of unarmed c...

Dec 08, 2014 09:01 PM EST

Uber cab driver in India arrested after suspected rape

Indian police on Sunday arrested an Uber cab driver suspected of raping a female passenger and said ...

Dec 07, 2014 06:41 PM EST

Clashes erupt in Athens after protest to mark 2008 police killing

Rampaging protesters threw petrol bombs at police and set bank ATMs, cars and shops on fire in centr...

Dec 07, 2014 03:39 AM EST

Protesters block NY streets after officer cleared in chokehold death

Thousands of demonstrators disrupted New York City traffic into early Thursday after a grand jury de...

Dec 04, 2014 03:37 AM EST

U.S. justice system makes it difficult to indict a cop

A grand jury decision not to indict a New York policeman over a fatal chokehold underscores how diff...

Dec 04, 2014 03:19 AM EST

Ferguson police officer who killed black teen resigns from force

The white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in a St. Louis suburb has resign...

Nov 29, 2014 10:11 PM EST

St. Louis-area mall closes on Black Friday as Ferguson protests spread

Demonstrators shut down a shopping mall near Ferguson, Missouri, at the start of the holiday shoppin...

Nov 29, 2014 08:45 AM EST

Man dies after shooting at Mexican consulate, other sites in Texas capital

A man apparently upset about U.S. immigration policy was fatally shot on Friday after firing more th...

Nov 29, 2014 05:51 AM EST

Hong Kong protesters clash with police after new clampdown

Thousands of pro-democracy activists clashed with police in running scuffles in Hong Kong's gritty M...

Nov 29, 2014 03:15 AM EST

More troops deployed in Ferguson to guard against fresh riots

Missouri's governor ordered hundreds more National Guard troops on Tuesday to the St. Louis suburb r...

Nov 25, 2014 11:21 PM EST

U.S. justices to consider police conduct in arrest of disabled woman

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether police officers were required under fed...

Nov 25, 2014 11:12 PM EST

Two jailed in Puerto Rico over killing of military family

Two men were jailed in Puerto Rico on Wednesday on charges of killing a retired U.S. Army sergeant a...

Nov 20, 2014 02:12 AM EST

Washington, D.C., approves landmark civil asset forfeiture law

District of Columbia lawmakers approved legislation on Tuesday that makes it harder for police to se...

Nov 19, 2014 01:14 AM EST

Gang member confessions point to massacre of missing Mexico students

Mexico's government said on Friday evidence suggests that 43 missing trainee teachers were murdered ...

Nov 07, 2014 09:00 PM EST

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