By JENNIFER PELTZ and RUSSELL CONTRERAS Associated Press (08/30)
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Scores of police supporters gathered Sunday in downtown Kenosha where protesters have been demonstrating against police brutality since the shooting of Jacob Blake last weekend.
Associated Press (08/29)
ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — A measure on the November ballot will ask voters in a northwestern Oregon county whether it should be a Second Amendment sanctuary.
By AARON MORRISON Associated Press (08/27)
NEW YORK (AP) — Black Lives Matter activists are holding their first Black National Convention Friday, a virtual event that will adopt a political agenda calling for slavery reparations,
By AMY FORLITI and JEFF BAENEN Associated Press (08/28)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After a Black man fatally shot himself on a pedestrian plaza in downtown Minneapolis,
Associated Press (08/28)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A crowd of protesters surrounded U.S. Sen. Rand Paul as he was leaving the White House following the Republican National Convention early Friday,
By STEPHEN GROVES and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press (08/28)
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors on Thursday charged a 17-year-old from Illinois in the fatal shooting of two protesters and the wounding of a third in Kenosha,
Associated Press (08/26)
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln police officer is in critical condition Wednesday after he was shot while attempting to arrest a 17-year-old in connection with a homicide earlier this year,
By ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press (08/26)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans aggressively defended law enforcement on the third night of their convention,
By RUSSELL CONTRERAS Associated Press (08/26)
RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small and Republican challenger Yvette Herrell this week released dueling ads — with guns —aimed at appealing to rural voters in their swing,
Associated Press (08/26)
NEW YORK (AP) — Chicago and three other cities sued the federal government Wednesday to stop the proliferation of what are advertised as easy-to-assemble guns that require no serial numbers or background checks.
By JIM SALTER Associated Press (08/24)
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A white St. Louis couple criminally charged for waving guns during a Black Lives Matter protest outside their home made the case in their opening night speech of the Republican National Convention that they had a “God-given right” to defend themselves and their property.
By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press (08/25)
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Anger over the shooting of a Black man by police spilled into the streets of Kenosha for a second night Monday,
By BEN FINLEY Associated Press (08/24)
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — When protesters gathered at one of Virginia’s Confederate monuments in June, police say a state senator approached them with a warning: “(T)hey are going to put some paint on this thing,
By TAMMY WEBBER and MORRY GASH Associated Press (08/24)
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s governor summoned the National Guard for fear of another round of violent protests Monday after the police shooting of a Black man turned Kenosha into the nation’s latest flashpoint city in a summer of racial unrest.
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press (08/21)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The use of National Guard reconnaissance planes in four U.S. cities to monitor the widespread protests earlier this year didn’t violate rules against the military collecting intelligence on Americans,
Associated Press (08/23)
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Community activists said they will present their frustrations and demand racial justice from the leaders of a Louisiana city on Sunday,
Associated Press (08/21)
LOGANVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia police department fired a white officer Friday after an arrest captured on video showed him using a stun gun on a Black woman.
By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America (08/22)
DENVER (AP) — Police stopped Elijah McClain on the street in suburban Denver last year after deeming the young Black man suspicious.
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press (08/21)
Pittsburgh’s mayor on Friday put new limits on dispatching police to civil protests, halted the practice of having plainclothes officers in unmarked cars jump out and arrest people and ordered officers to stop wearing camouflage at protests.
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press (08/21)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee protesters will face harsher penalties, including losing the right to vote,