Poll: Police harassment familiar to young blacks, Hispanics
By COREY WILLIAMS and EMILY SWANSON Crystal Webb cringes whenever a patrol car appears in her rearview mirror. She also never wants to see the inside of a police station…
Government and politics
America seen from abroad: arrogant, nice, tech-savvy, free
By VIJAY JOSHI The rest of the world may think Americans eat a lot of burgers, have huge shopping malls and are ruled by an arrogant government. And yet the…
Battle for Aleppo a pivotal moment for besieged residents
By SARAH EL DEEB The 28-year-old Syrian attorney turned down a scholarship to study economics in Germany in order to remain in his native Aleppo after rebels took it over…
GOP frustrations with Trump mount as allies weigh options
By JULIE PACE and STEVE PEOPLES Their party in crisis, Republicans’ frustration with Donald Trump reached new heights on Wednesday as GOP leaders inside and outside the presidential nominee’s campaign…
FBI: 1st US law enforcement officer charged in terror sting
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Prosecutors brought the first-ever federal terrorism charges against a law enforcement officer in the U.S., alleging Wednesday that a patrol officer with the D.C. region’s Metro Transit…
Snapping up cheap spy tools, nation’s ‘monitoring everyone’
By FRANK BAJAK and JACK GILLUM It was a national scandal. Peru’s then-vice president accused two domestic intelligence agents of staking her out. Then, a top congressman blamed the spy…
Obama says Trump ‘unfit, challenges GOP to drop support
By JULIE PACE In a searing denouncement, President Barack Obama slammed Donald Trump as “unfit” and “woefully unprepared” to serve in the White House on Tuesday. He challenged Republican lawmakers…
Syrian civilians begin leaving rebel-held parts of Aleppo
By BASSEM MROUE Dozens of families and some opposition fighters started leaving besieged rebel-held neighborhoods in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday after the government opened safe corridors…