• More than 800 missing in Maui wildfires as officials continue search

    More than 800 missing in Maui wildfires as officials continue search

    Aug 22, 2023 02:17 PM EST

    ... reaching out by email and social media. “We were able to identify them through basically good old fashioned detective work,” Honea said. Scuba instructor Tim Ferguson, whose home north of Lahaina was spared, was elated to hear about a friend who managed to flee the flames with their family, including ...

  • Tyre Nichols' death renews push for police reforms

    Tyre Nichols' death renews push for police reforms

    Jan 29, 2023 05:47 PM EST

    ... repeated in a ceaseless rhythm ever since, punctuated by the deaths of Amadou Diallo in New York, Oscar Grant in Oakland, California, Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and so many others. George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis in 2020 was so agonizing to watch, it summoned a national reckoning that ...

  • Who are the Oath Keepers, and why are members on trial?

    Who are the Oath Keepers, and why are members on trial?

    Oct 03, 2022 05:00 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A trial starting this week in Washington, D.C., is the biggest test yet in the Justice Department's efforts to hold accountable those responsible for the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a violent assault that challenged the foundations of American democracy. On trial is ...

  • New Maryland congressional redistricting map approved by governor

    New Maryland congressional redistricting map approved by governor

    Apr 04, 2022 06:53 PM EST

    ... the legislature said voters, candidates, and election officials need to have certainty about the congressional district boundaries. House Speaker Adrienne Jones and Senate President Bill Ferguson, who are both Democrats, said the judge's ruling contained new legal standards. They said continued delays, and a lack of clear direction in ...

  • A Dutch chocolate company’s fight to end illegal child labor

    A Dutch chocolate company’s fight to end illegal child labor

    Jul 11, 2021 09:05 PM EST

    ... s is now paying about 68 percent more than the minimum price set by the government. That contributes to making the chocolate more expensive.  Henk Jan Beltman: Well, in the U.S., this bar is a little under $5 and this bar would have cost it, let's say, $3 ...

  • Police officers' posts to private Facebook group show hostility and hate

    Police officers' posts to private Facebook group show hostility and hate

    Mar 22, 2021 01:41 PM EST

    ... is running for a vacant magisterial district judge post, was listed as one of the Facebook group’s four administrators. McQuillan posted an article in June 2017 about a civil settlement being reached in the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, remarking on how the amount of ...

  • Denver investigation faults overall police treatment of Elijah McClain

    Denver investigation faults overall police treatment of Elijah McClain

    Feb 22, 2021 08:08 PM EST

    ... rights investigation since 2019. Aurora initially hired a former police officer to lead its investigation before city councilors objected and that contract was canceled in June. The city later chose Jonathan Smith, the executive director of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and former head of ...

  • Lax security at the Capitol prompts widespread demand for answers

    Lax security at the Capitol prompts widespread demand for answers

    Jan 07, 2021 11:40 PM EST

    The Associated Press reported more than 10,000 people were arrested in protests between the end of May and the start of June alone. Newly elected Missouri Democratic Congresswoman Cori Bush was a leader of the 2014 protests over the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Rep. Cori Bush ...

  • After a tumultuous 2020, Black leaders weigh next steps

    After a tumultuous 2020, Black leaders weigh next steps

    Jan 01, 2021 05:04 PM EST

    ... a fresh perspective for a party with an aging leadership. Activist Cori Bush, who led protests after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, ousted longtime Rep. William Lacy Clay in Missouri’s Democratic primary, ending a political dynasty that had spanned more than a half-century. Bush ...

  • How the Black Lives Matter generation remembers John Lewis

    How the Black Lives Matter generation remembers John Lewis

    Jul 19, 2020 07:31 PM EST

    ... civil rights icon who some called the “conscience of Congress,” died Friday. In one of his last public appearances, he posed for a picture in June, standing on the Black Lives Matter Plaza mural painted just outside of the White House amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd ...