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Rise of the Female Superhero
Rise of the Female Superhero
After 2 nights of tension, a peaceful protest in Ferguson
Police outnumbered protesters along West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson on Tuesday night.
U.S. military helicopter crashes off Japan's Okinawa, seven hurt
All 17 people on the UH-60 Black Hawk have been rescued, including seven who were injured.
Officer fired for 'troubling' decisions in shooting of Texas teen
A white officer who fatally shot a black Texas teenager last week at a Dallas-area car dealership has been fired after making a series of troubling decisions, Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson said on Tuesday. Christian Taylor, a 19-year-old college football player at Angelo State University, became the latest unarmed black man to die at the hands of a white police officer after officials said he was seen on security
No arrests in Ferguson protests for first time in five days: police
Protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over last year’s police killing of an unarmed black teenager ended peacefully on Wednesday morning, law enforcement officials said, after shots had been fired and shop windows smashed earlier in the week. It was the first night since Friday to end without arrests, said St. Louis County police spokesman Shawn McGuire. The mainly black St. Louis suburb of 21,000 people has had months of largely peaceful
Judge briefed on Brady's 'Deflategate' suspension settlement talks
The National Football League and the players union met with a federal judge on Wednesday to provide closed-door updates on the status of settlement talks in their dispute over New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s “Deflategate” suspension. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan met first with the NFL, then began meeting with the NFL Players Association. Berman had ordered the briefings ahead of a previously scheduled hearing in litigation
Texas to execute man convicted of killing veteran police officer
Texas plans on Wednesday to execute Daniel Lopez, 27, who was convicted of killing a veteran police officer in 2009 and has waived his rights to appeal his death sentence. If the execution goes ahead, it would be the 528th in Texas, the most of any state since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Lopez was convicted of striking Corpus Christi Police Lieutenant Stuart Alexander at
Clinton relents, gives up possession of private email server
The former secretary of state directs her team to give the device to the Justice Department.