DOJ Probe must begin with Rahm Emanuel and City Hall. From Ronald Johnson to Laquan McDonald, to the fact that Mayor Rahm Emanuel and State Attorney Anita Alvarez concealed the video of both shootings for more than a year to Chica...
Marina Koren of The Atlantic is reporting three suicide bombings at a market on an island of Lake Chad on Saturday have killed and injured dozens of people. The exact number of victims is unclear. The Associated Press reports 27 p...
BBC News is reporting Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of murder after a South African appeals court overturned an earlier manslaughter verdict. The author writes: “Pistorious killed his girlfriend Reeva...
Travis Gettys of Rawstory.com is reporting a group of suspected white supremacists fired into a crowd of Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists protesting the Minneapolis police killing of Jamar Clark. At least five people were wound...
Caribbean News Now is reporting that new details have emerged in the drug trafficking case involving relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. The latest details in the case indicate that the Vene...
BBC Africa is reporting Malian special forces have entered the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali’s capital, where suspected Islamists are holding dozens of guests and staff hostage. Apparently three people were killed durin...
The BBC is reporting that a unified African army that can quickly respond to crises impacting the continent is coming to fruition. The BBC writes: “From January 2016, the African Standby Force (ASF) will be able to intervene...
Craig Melvin and Erik Ortiz of NBC News are reporting that Deputy Ben Fields has been fired after video of him assaulting a high school student went viral. The reporters write: “The school resource officer who was caught on ...
BBC News is reporting South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, 28, has been released from prison nearly one year after he was jailed for killing his girlfriend. He is expected to spend the remainder of a five-...
Writing for The Nation, Dave Zirin examines the seven things that we learned from Thabo Sefolosha, the Atlanta Hawks guard whose leg was broken by NYPD, who then charged him with a slew of misdemeanors to add insult to his injury....
