• WATCH: Harris speaks at Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in South Carolina

    WATCH: Harris speaks at Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in South Carolina

    Jan 15, 2024 09:07 PM EDT

    ... action. “Generation after generation on the fields of Gettysburg, in the schools of Little Rock, on the grounds of this Statehouse, on the streets of Ferguson and on the floor of the Tennessee House of Representatives — we the people have always fought to make the promise of freedom real,” Harris ...

  • Lewiston mass shooter had numerous run-ins with authorities, showed warning signs long before shooting

    Lewiston mass shooter had numerous run-ins with authorities, showed warning signs long before shooting

    Oct 30, 2023 08:59 PM EDT

    ... he made threats against his base and fellow soldiers. But ultimately, after a visit to Card's home, police moved on. On Monday afternoon, Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, held a news conference to provide an update on the response to the shooting. The conference turned contentious quickly when Mills ...

  • 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    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 ...