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A strange scene unfolded at Cleveland’s Public Square on the afternoon of the second day of the Republican National Convention: Raised on a platform above a chaotic sea of police, journalists, and counter-protesters, a group of five Westboro Baptist Church members stood holding signs that read “Fags Doom Nations” and “Divorce Remarriage and Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Are All Sin.”
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland
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Cleveland
A military faction has attempted a coup in Turkey, the country’s prime minister said Friday night (July 15). As of this writing, there’s conflicting information as to who controls the country, but there’s one huge area of concern: the fate of millions of refugees who have poured into the country from neighboring Syria over the past five years.
Like every other terror incident, the deadly Nice truck attack has divided politicians and world leaders in their reactions. Some, like US president Barack Obama, praised French values of openness and tolerance, while others blamed them, declaring war on fundamentalism.
Following backlash to her critical comments about presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said in a statement that she regrets her words:
Micah Xavier Johnson, the man who shot and killed five Dallas police officers on July 7 during a Black Lives Matter rally, reportedly arranged the purchase of an AK-47 semiautomatic rifle on Facebook in 2014, and completed the transaction at a supermarket parking lot.
He may not have a nickname for her yet, but presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has a new enemy to contend with: Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
More than a month after he effectively lost the race for the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders has endorsed the former secretary of state for president, formally concluding a long and bruising primary season. At a joint rally in New Hampshire, Clinton and Sanders were surrounded by banners that read “Stronger Together.”
The investigation into the killing of Alton Sterling by two police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on July 5 will now entirely be out of local hands, after the local police department and the district attorney recused themselves from the case.
As thousands of people took to the streets of St. Paul, Baton Rouge, Phoenix, New York, Rochester and other cities across America this weekend, they were confronted with phalanxes of shielded, masked officers in head-to-toe military-grade riot gear. More than 300 protesters were arrested at the demonstrations, which followed two videotaped incidents of police killing black men last week.
A July 7 protest against police brutality and the killings of two black men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, turned deadly when about a dozen police officers who were working the demonstration were shot. Five of the officers were killed. Three suspects are in police custody, one is dead.
In the week following Fourth of July, America has been shaken by two killings of black men by law enforcement: Alton Sterling, who was shot while being pinned to the ground by two police officers in Baton Rouge on Tuesday, and Philando Castile, who was killed by an officer while he was reaching for his identification during a traffic stop in Minnesota on Wednesday.
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Pavel Astakhov, Russia’s children rights commissioner who successfully lobbied to ban US adoptions of Russian children in 2012, has stepped down after a petition calling for his dismissal garnered more than 150,000 signatures, Russian media confirmed Monday (July 4). The public was outraged after he visited two girls who survived a boating accident that killed 14 summer campers and asked: “So, how was the swim?”
Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and author of the famous 1955 Holocaust memoir “Night,” has died at age 87, Haaretz reports.
Megan Brennan is the head of the largest postal organization in the world. She is also the first woman to hold the position, and one of the highest paid US government officials.
Americans feeling festive about the birth of their country can celebrate by watching people inhale 69 hot dogs in 10 minutes (nearly 20,000 calories and more than 1,000 grams of fat).
While Americans may be excited to heat up their grills and enjoy the July 4th Independence Day weekend, they are less and less excited about actually being American. According to new data from Gallup, the share of US adults who say they are “extremely proud” to be American is just 52%, a record low for the 16 years Gallup has been measuring the trend.