As Obama sought to strike the appropriate tone Monday, he appeared to be trapped between the need, as president and commander in chief, to stand up for the government’s right to ensure law and order, and the inclination, as an African-American, to empathize with those whose say the killing of an unarmed black man just goes to show how blacks are treated differently by police.
An Egyptian effort to broker an end to the war between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip appeared to collapse Tuesday after Israel walked out on the talks in response to a barrage of Palestinian rocket fire.
An 8-year-old girl has died after falling about 550 feet while hiking in Yellowstone National Park.
Police said they prevented a “horrific tragedy” by arresting two teenage boys who plotted to kill three high school staffers then gun down as many students as possible in a quaint Los Angeles suburb.
A Texas judge opted Monday not to issue an arrest warrant against Gov. Rick Perry, but the Republican still faces the unflattering prospect of being booked, fingerprinted and having his mug shot taken.
Police fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday after days of unrest sparked by the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman.
On Monday, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon mobilized the Guard to the town of Ferguson. Here are some questions about the Guard, its activities and its role in Ferguson.
A look at the key figures in the case of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was unarmed when he was fatally shot by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Aug. 9 — a death that has stoked days of violent unrest north of St. Louis.
A Missouri teenager fatally shot by police suffered a bullet wound to his right arm that may have occurred when he put his hands up or while his back was turned to the shooter, a pathologist hired by the teen’s family said Monday.
The body of the missing, pregnant wife of a U.S. Marine has been found in an abandoned mine shaft in Southern California, and Alaskan authorities have arrested her alleged lover on suspicion of homicide.
A child born in 2013 will cost a middle-income American family an average of $245,340 until he or she reaches the age of 18, according to a report out Monday.
A talking, bucket-bodied robot has enthralled Canadians since it departed from Halifax last month on a hitchhiking journey to the Pacific coast.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the National Guard to Ferguson early Monday, hours after police used tear gas to clear protesters after a week of demonstrations against the fatal police shooting of a black Missouri teenager.
Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through the capital’s largest slum after residents raided a quarantine center for suspected patients and took items including bloody sheets and mattresses.
They typically wear plain clothing with nothing as fancy as a button or a zipper, travel by horse-drawn buggy and shun modern conveniences like electricity, but the negative portrayal of Amish people in television shows like “Breaking Amish” and “Amish Mafia” is inaccurate in some eyes.
