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September 21, 2017

Lawmaker condemns student video depicting police beheading

A university student's video depicting the beheading of a police officer drew a strongly worded rebuke from a Wisconsin state ...

Paul Williams, John Mellencamp, Tavis Smiley

September 21, 2017

Theatrical production to showcase last year of King's life

You think you know Martin Luther King Jr.'s story? Tavis Smiley is willing to bet you don't. To mark the 50th anniversary of ...

September 21, 2017

Report: NFL players ask league to support campaign

A group of current and former NFL players has asked Commissioner Roger Goodell for the league's support for their campaign ...

September 21, 2017

The Latest: Truck carrying aid crashes in Bangladesh; 9 dead

The Latest on hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh (all ...

September 21, 2017

Protesters march in St. Louis suburb over police shooting

Protesters took to the streets again Wednesday in the St. Louis area to demonstrate against a judge's recent acquittal of a ...

September 21, 2017

South Carolina: Call for a monument to black Civil War hero

A call to honor a black Civil War hero with a monument at the South Carolina Statehouse grounds, onetime epicenter of a ...

September 21, 2017

New St. Louis mayor navigates racial strife after acquittal

After defeating several black candidates, the new white mayor of St. Louis is carefully navigating racial strife that ...

September 20, 2017

The Latest: White man facing murder charges on suicide watch

The Latest on the arrest of a 23-year-old white man accused of killing two black men in Baton Rouge (all times local): 4:30 p

September 20, 2017

Man's path from Eagle Scout to alleged killer baffles family

An Eagle Scout at age 18, Kenneth Gleason graduated with honors from one of Baton Rouge's most elite high schools and ...

September 20, 2017

White man arrested in slayings of 2 black men in Louisiana

A 23-year-old white man was arrested Tuesday and accused of cold-bloodedly killing two black men and shooting up a black ...

September 19, 2017

The Latest: Neighbor talks about her house being shot up

The Latest on the killings of two black men in Baton Rouge (all times local): 2:45 p.m. Authorities say a white man shot up ...

September 19, 2017

Rohingya Muslims are being wiped off Myanmar's map

For generations, Rohingya Muslims have called Myanmar home. Now, in what appears to be a systematic purge, the minority ...

September 19, 2017

White man accused of killing 2 blacks had Hitler speech

A 23-year-old white man arrested Tuesday was accused of killing two black men and firing on a black family in a string of ...

September 19, 2017

Rohingya Muslims being wiped off Myanmar's map

For generations, Rohingya Muslims have called Myanmar home. Now, in what appears to be a systematic purge, the minority ...

September 19, 2017

Convicted church killer wants to fire Jewish, Indian lawyers

A white supremacist who was sentenced to death in the 2015 massacre of nine black worshippers has told a federal appeals ...

September 18, 2017

2 Baton Rouge slayings add to an already bloody year there

The deadly ambushes of a homeless man on the street and a dishwasher walking to work ramped up the anxiety in Louisiana's ...

September 18, 2017

Politics, diverse winners, new voices top key Emmy moments

It was, not surprisingly, a night for politics, with everyone from host Stephen Colbert to Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Alec ...

September 18, 2017

White House, black college heads to meet amid strained ties

President Donald Trump on Monday named a lawyer and former NFL player as executive director of the White House Initiative on ...

September 18, 2017

The Latest: Dozens arrested after St. Louis vandalism

The Latest on protests over the acquittal of a white former St. Louis police officer in the killing of a black suspect (all ...