The Latest: 2 bystanders hurt in Greek clashes with police ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Latest on riots in Greece (all times local): 9:25 p.m. Youths have clashed with police in Greece’s two largest cities, injuring two bystanders. Police say a woman was hospitalized with burns in Athens after being hit in the thigh with … Continue reading
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Investigators are looking into whether gunman Stephen Paddock scoped out bigger music festivals in Las Vegas and Chicago — and perhaps Boston’s Fenway Park — before setting up his perch in a casino hotel and raining deadly fire on country music fans. Paddock booked rooms overlooking the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago … Continue reading
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A white nationalist rally that turned violent has forced Charlottesville residents to confront the ugly realities of racism, bigotry and inequality lurking beneath the charming veneer of their progressive college town. In the weeks since the rally, where a woman protesting was hit by a car and killed, anger has erupted … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — It was the most searing racial clash in a generation in the nation’s biggest city, spiraling out of the deaths of a black child and a Jewish doctoral student. Yet the 25th anniversary of the Crown Heights riot is being marked with games, rides and “fun for all ages.” It’s meant … Continue reading
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — In one of the presidential campaign year’s more grisly spectacles, protesters in New Mexico opposing Donald Trump’s candidacy threw burning T-shirts, plastic bottles and other items at police officers, injuring several, and toppled trash cans and barricades. Police responded by firing pepper spray and smoke grenades into the crowd outside the … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Urging Americans to “do some soul-searching,” President Barack Obama expressed deep frustration Tuesday April 28, 2014 over recurring black deaths at the hands of police, rioters responding with senseless violence and a society that will only “feign concern” without addressing the root causes. “This is not new. It’s been going on … Continue reading
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