(Screenshots from police department videos)
Despite a vow of transparency, police and other officials routinely block the release of body camera videos, while giving officers accused of wrongdoing special access to the footage.
TURMOIL IN THE GOP
Behind closed doors, McCarthy made a last sales pitch to other House Republicans and asked to be forgiven for his gaffe on Benghazi. At one point, a colleague rose to say, “Kevin, you need to not be in this race.”
Ryan left his colleagues guessing about whether he would run for speaker, declining to speak at a closed-door session where Republicans hoped to find a path uniting their warring ranks.
The change reflects concerns over failures to mobilize a U.S.-backed fighting force among moderate rebels opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is supported by Russia.
Arenas, who was suspended for 50 games after the 2009 locker room episode, took to Instagram to respond — and then deleted his posts.
The shooting took place outside a Greek-life dormitory, and the suspect was in custody, the school said.
In wake of the Oregon shooting, the White House revives a plan to require private, high-volume gun dealers to conduct checks on buyers.
The “majority illusion” often leads us to make bad predictions about what other people think. A quick puzzle tests your skills of prediction — and explains why it matters on issues from same-sex marriage to alcohol abuse to how many friends you have.
Jewish activists and scholars said his efforts to link the gun control debate to the Holocaust are inaccurate and offensive.
COLUMN | After 2,700 columns, what started out as a chronicle of the chaotic White House transition to Bill Clinton grew into a staple of Senate confirmations, all manner of government non-, mis-, and mal-feasance, and junkets.
The committee cited the alliance of four Tunisian civil society groups for its contribution to democracy in the wake of the 2011 revolution.
Stone was one of the Americans who foiled a potential mass shooting on a Paris-bound train in August.
The nation’s pork producers are in an uproar after the federal government abruptly removed bacon, pork chops, ham and all other pig products from the menu for 206,000 federal inmates.
