Young Americans fear US, foreign-inspired extremists
By MELINDA DESLATTE The threat of violence by people inspired by foreign extremists invokes fear in a majority of young Americans across racial groups. But for young people of color,…
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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…
Democrats will meet in a city of great economic inequality
By KATHY MATHESON When the Democrats come to the City of Brotherly Love to nominate Hillary Clinton for president and the talk turns to income inequality and the 1 percent,…
German train attacker vowed ‘revenge on the infidels’
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, DAVID RISING and CHRISTOPH NOELTING A 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker vowing “revenge on these infidels” went on an ax-and-knife rampage on a train in southern Germany, wounding five…
Aid group says IS shooting civilians fleeing Fallujah battle
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN The Islamic State group has been shooting at civilians as they try to flee the nearly two-week battle between Iraqi government forces and IS militants in the…
Finally allowed 2nd child, older Chinese parents turn to IVF
By LOUISE WATT China’s decision to allow all married couples to have two children is driving a surge in demand for fertility treatment among older women, putting heavy pressure on…
More than 700 feared dead in recent Mediterranean crossings
By SARAH EL DEEB Survivor accounts have pushed to more than 700 the number of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks over three days in the past week, even…
Once unthinkable in US, drug shoot-up rooms get serious look
By DAVID KLEPPER Across the United States, heroin users have died in alleys behind convenience stores, on city sidewalks and in the bathrooms of fast-food joints — because no one…