Former top cop: America is 'sitting on a powder keg'
VIDEO The former top cop in Washington and Philadelphia said Sunday that the country is “sitting on a powder keg” amid outcry over a number of fatal police shootings, including two last week that prompted nationwide protests. And he fears that “some incident” will take place at the national political conventions later this month. Charles Ramsey, the former D.C. police chief and one-time Philadelphia police commissioner, said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that this is a “volatile time” for the ..>> view originalTheresa May poised to become British prime minister after lone rival ...
LONDON — Theresa May moved Monday onto an unchallenged path to become Britain’s next prime minister after her lone rival pulled out of the race, setting in motion a likely swift move into Downing Street as the country plots its exit from the European Union. Andrea Leadsom, the country’s energy minister, abandoned her campaign just days after she was voted by Conservative lawmakers to be one of two contenders to campaign for the nation's top job. The contest was expected to last through the su..>> view originalAren't more white people than black people killed by police? Yes ...
Members of Black Lives Matter participate in the annual Martin Luther King Holiday Peace Walk and Parade in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Dylan Noble died on the last Saturday of June. Police in Fresno, Calif., received a report of a man walking a downtown street with a rifle, but when they arrived, they instead found Noble speeding by in his pickup truck. When they tried to pull him over, the 19-year-old led police to a nearby gas station and then exited his car. “The driver t..>> view originalPentagon will send hundreds more troops to Iraq following seizure ...
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- Influential Dallas Pastor, T.D. Jakes, talks about the pain of the black community in the wake of fatal police shootings. () T.D. Jakes: We have not seen the weeping of black women like this since the days of Emmett Till (3:34)>> view originalAs arrests mount in Baton Rouge, protesters question police tactics
BATON ROUGE — On the first two nights after Alton Sterling was pinned to the ground and fatally shot by police, people gathered peacefully and purposefully around the Triple S convenience store, where Sterling had been selling CDs when a call came in to 911 that a man in a red shirt had threatened someone with a gun. Young people sat on cars with music streaming out open windows, waved some placards and generally commiserated, while sipping beer. The police were nowhere in sight. They seemed ..>> view originalPoll: Most disapprove of FBI decision to exonerate Clinton
FBI Director James Comey said on July 5 that Hillary Clinton should not be charged for her use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state. Here's what he said, in three minutes. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) A majority of Americans reject the FBI's recommendation against charging Hillary Clinton with a crime for her State Department e-mail practices and say the issue raises concerns about how she might perform her presidential duties, according to a new Washin..>> view originalSharp emotions, further protests deepen nation's divide over race ...
The growing national divisions over law enforcement and race hardened further on Sunday as police and political leaders condemned the recent killings of five officers in Dallas. One chief referred to Black Lives Matter protesters as “criminals,” while a former D.C. law enforcement leader said the United States is “sitting on a powder keg.’’ Even as people streamed into churches in Dallas and other cities and Americans tried to make sense of the past week of violence, demonstrations again were t..>> view originalChina intensifies opposition ahead of South China Sea ruling
BEIJING — China has intensified the drumbeat of its opposition to an international tribunal’s ruling expected Tuesday that could threaten its expansive claims in the South China Sea. How Beijing responds to the ruling in the case filed by U.S. ally the Philippines could chart the course of global power relations in an increasingly dangerous hotspot. It comes as the U.S. has ramped up its military presence in the region and could seek to marshal world opinion to pressure Beijing into complying w..>> view originalObama plans major nuclear policy changes in his final months
President Obama descends from Air Force One as he arrives at the Naval Station Rota in Spain on July 10. (Jorge Guerrero/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) The Obama administration is determined to use its final six months in office to take a series of executive actions to advance the nuclear agenda the president has advocated since his college days. It’s part of Obama’s late push to polish a foreign policy legacy that is plagued by challenges on several other fronts. President Obama a..>> view original
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