By GENE JOHNSON SEATTLE (AP) — Felix Vargas read the Justice Department’s report on Ferguson, Missouri, and thought some of it sounded awfully familiar: a mostly white police department overseeing…
By KIM CHANDLER and PHILLIP LUCAS SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of people crowded an Alabama bridge on Sunday to commemorate a bloody confrontation 50 years ago between police and…
By JAY REEVES and DARLENE SUPERVILLE SELMA, Ala. (AP) —Tens of thousands of people joined to commemorate the “Bloody Sunday” march of 1965 and take stock of the struggle for equality. Under…
By RYAN LUCAS on Sunday who were among the more than 220 people the militants took captive in northeastern Syria last week, activists and a local leader said. The news…
By DAVID A. LIEB Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich, who had recently launched a Republican campaign for governor, fatally shot himself in what police described as an apparent suicide, minutes after…
By SCOTT BAUER Two busloads of police officers are on hand at the Wisconsin state Capitol in advance of a rally and public hearing on a right-to-work bill. Republicans have…
By KEN THOMAS Democrats are struggling to answer a simple question — “What’s a Democrat?” — and must do a better job of explaining their core values to voters, according…
By SADIE GURMAN A judge has ordered the man accused of setting off a small explosion last month near a Colorado NAACP office held without bond pending a hearing next…
