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Dallas police officer mistakes neighbor's apartment for her own, kills man inside
Authorities are seeking a manslaughter warrant for a Dallas police officer who shot and killed a neighbor after she said she mistook his apartment for her own, police said Friday. It was not clear what the officer may have said to 26-year-old Botham Jean after ...
Portugal anti-terror cops collar 20 from Dallas-based skinhead group for hate crimes
Police from Portugal's National Anti-Terrorism Unit arrested 20 ultra-nationalists on Tuesday in an operation that involved searches across the country as part of an investigation into attempted murder and other hate crimes. The Lisbon District Prosecutor's office said in a statement those detained were part ...
Dallas hospital performs four uterus transplants from live donors; three fail
Texas doctors have done the first womb transplants using live donors in the United States. Four women who had been born without a uterus received one in operations last month at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. Three of the wombs have had to be ...
A record-tying earthquake in the edge of Oklahoma's key energy-producing areas rattled the Midwest from Illinois to the southwest part of Texas on Saturday, bringing fresh attention to the practice of disposing oil and gas field wastewater deep underground. The United States Geological Survey said ...
Terror, terror on the wall, who's the biggest of all?
The word "terrorist" can and should be applied to a wider range of killers.
When Philando Castile saw the flashing lights in his rearview mirror the night he got shot, it wasn't unusual. He had been pulled over at least 52 times in recent years in and around the Twin Cities and given citations for minor offenses including ...
Black boys, men ponder avoiding becoming the next one killed
AP Javon Grant has come up with a plan for what to do should he cross paths with a police officer: get as far away as possible. "People are getting shot every day," says Javon, 14. "I'll walk on the other side of the street. I ...
As people protest police violence against African-Americans, 'Black Lives Matter' becomes mantra
"Black Lives Matter" has become a mantra for people protesting police violence against African-Americans. It's a hash tag, a popular T-shirt slogan and a movement that is loosely organized — by design. Black Lives Matter was founded by three women who popularized the slogan during protests ...
Violence again convulses 2016 election campaign, testing Trump, Clinton
In the hours after a gunman shot 12 police officers in Dallas, killing five, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton abruptly canceled campaign events. Their Twitter accounts largely went quiet. The shootings marked yet another convulsive event in the 2016 ...
Black Lives Matter condemns Dallas shootings, plans protests
Leaders and supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement sought a delicate balance Friday by both condemning the slaying of five Dallas police officers and promising more demonstrations against deadly shootings by law enforcement. In Philadelphia, a group planned a "Weekend of Rage" to draw ...
The man who killed five Dallas police officers and wounded seven others was described as a loner, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan and a follower of black militant groups on social media. Among the Facebook "likes" of 25-year-old Micah Johnson were the African ...
Dallas was in shock and beset by uncertainty early Friday after gunmen shot and killed five police officers and wounded seven during a peaceful protest over fatal police shootings of black men in other states, police said, in bloodshed evoking the trauma of the ...
