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Bai: Democrats shouldn’t congratulate themselves on gay marriage
Baltimore police hand report on Gray death to prosecutor
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police have completed their investigation into the death of Freddie Gray and turned over their findings to prosecutors — one day earlier than the department’s self-imposed deadline, the commissioner said Thursday morning.
Bernie Sanders: Progressive social media star, pragmatic legislator
He’s the first left-leaning candidate to formally launch a challenge against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Rescuers pull survivor from rubble 5 days after Nepal quake
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Crowds cheered Thursday as a teenage boy was pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-story Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when an enormous earthquake shook Nepal.
Baltimore police give prosecutors report on Freddie Gray's death
By Scott Malone and Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Baltimore police have handed state prosecutors the findings of an internal investigation into the death of a black man who suffered spinal injuries while in custody, officials said on Thursday. The report was turned over to the state’s attorney a day earlier than expected, Police Commissioner Anthony Batts told a news conference. Prosecutors have said they would conduct their own probe
Boston bomber trial's sentencing phase stalled by juror illness
By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) – Testimony was suspended on Thursday in the sentencing phase of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial due to a juror’s illness, a federal judge said. The trial will resume on Monday once one of the 12 jurors and six alternate jurors hearing the case recovers, Judge George O’Toole told the court. Court is expected to open with prosecutors cross-examining Alexa Guevara, a 21-year-old
Sen. Bernie Sanders running for president
Promising to fight what he deems “obscene levels” of income disparity and a campaign finance system that is a “real disgrace,” independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday he will run for president as a Democrat.
Liberal Senator Sanders to challenge Clinton in 2016 race
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, launched his bid for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday in a move likely to pressure Hillary Clinton from the left and challenge her on a range of fiscal issues from income inequality to corporate governance. Sanders, a self-described socialist and one of the most outspoken liberals in Congress, faces a difficult fight against Clinton, the presumptive party frontrunner. He has
Protests against police violence spread across U.S.
Dozens are arrested in New York, while a large march ends peacefully in Baltimore.