• Why I founded #CharlestonSyllabus after the Charleston shooting

    Why I founded #CharlestonSyllabus after the Charleston shooting

    Jul 09, 2015 03:26 PM EDT

    ... detached from the present. Personal feelings must be kept at bay, lest they affect my “objectivity” and fair judgement. But in the aftermath of the June 17 massacre of nine black men and women by a white supremacist in Charleston, South Carolina’s historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, my ...

  • What’s next for the city of Ferguson?

    What’s next for the city of Ferguson?

    Nov 26, 2014 12:35 AM EDT

    ... JUDY WOODRUFF: We turn now back to Ferguson, Missouri, a city still very much smoldering and tense in the wake of last night's protests over the grand jury decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown. The "NewsHour"'s Stephen Fee was out ...

  • Manchester City captures Premier League title

    Manchester City captures Premier League title

    May 22, 2022 06:18 PM EDT

    ... investment from Abu Dhabi. City is now enjoying the steady stream of titles it once had to watch crosstown rival United gather up under Alex Ferguson. The rise of City coincided with the retirement of the Scot — who won the Premier League 13 times from 1993 to 2013 — and the ...

  • Chicago officer sues former chief for sexual harassment

    Chicago officer sues former chief for sexual harassment

    Oct 15, 2020 08:14 PM EDT

    ... 911 call from someone reporting a man asleep at the wheel of his idling vehicle did not issue any citations for Johnson. Instead, they escorted him home, following him, according to Ferguson's report, as he ran a stop sign and drove for a short time in the wrong lane.

  • States reconsider suspending licenses of drivers with drug convictions

    States reconsider suspending licenses of drivers with drug convictions

    Jan 31, 2017 08:47 PM EDT

    ... judges, prosecutors and, in Massachusetts, the attorney general. “We want to make sure people who have done their time don’t suffer doubly,” said Brian Ferguson, director of the Mayor’s Office on Returning Citizen Affairs in Washington, D.C. Calculating Risk In most states that automatically suspend licenses for ...

  • Why are indictments rare when people of color die in police custody?

    Why are indictments rare when people of color die in police custody?

    Dec 22, 2015 11:39 PM EDT

    ... Bland's death. As captured on video, the Chicago-area woman was pulled over by a Texas state trooper in July for making an improper lane change. It quickly turned into a confrontation, as Bland refused to get out of her car, and trooper Brian Encinia brandished a stun gun ...

  • U.S. Justice Department to investigate Chicago police

    U.S. Justice Department to investigate Chicago police

    Dec 07, 2015 02:54 PM EDT

    ... said. "And when suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest." The civil rights probe follows recent ones in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, and comes as the police department and Mayor Rahm Emanuel are under intense scrutiny over their handling of the October 2014 death of ...

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    John Allen Muhammad's Self Defense

    Oct 21, 2003 04:00 AM EDT

    John Allen Muhammad, the alleged Washington area sniper, on Monday won the right to defend himself against murder charges stemming from the three-week shooting rampage last October. Two law experts discuss the possible effects on the trial.

  • Men face prison for human smuggling after Indian family of 4 died while attempting to cross U.S.-Canada border

    Men face prison for human smuggling after Indian family of 4 died while attempting to cross U.S.-Canada border

    May 28, 2025 06:20 PM EDT

    Two men face sentencing on human smuggling charges after a family of four from India froze to death while trying to cross into the U.S. along a remote stretch of the Canadian border in a blizzard.