A Texas woman says she was sexually assaulted after being subjected to a vaginal search by Harris County deputies, who suspected her of possessing marijuana, KTRK reports. Charnesia Corley, 21, said that she was driving to the store on June 21 to get something for her sick mother when she was pulled over by a…

A state of emergency in St. Louis County did not prevent a controversial patriot organization from adding to the tensions felt across Ferguson, Mo., early Tuesday. According to NBC News, members of the Oath Keepers—an organization consisting of former members of the military, police officers and first responders that pledge to “defend the Constitution against…

Activists at a peaceful protest were arrested at the office of the U.S. Department of Justice in St. Louis Monday as witnessed in Vines uploaded by Twitter user and activist DeRay McKesson. Protesters were apparently staging a sit-in, urging the DOJ to do its job in the face of police violence, and blocking off the…

A young man who reportedly carjacked a vehicle and and drove it toward police officers at an increasing speed was shot dead by police Sunday night, IndyStar reports. The Marion County Coroner’s Office has identified the boy as 15-year-old Andre Green. According to the report, authorities tried to pull over a car full of people…

The father of Christian Taylor, a 19-year-old Texan who was gunned down by police officers last week, is claiming that authorities have remained silent, withholding information in relation to his son’s death, The Guardian reports. “They won’t even talk to me,” Adrian Taylor told the news site. He revealed that he only learned some details…

A Texas man has reportedly admitted to breaking into his ex’s home, handcuffing her, along with her husband and her six children, and shooting each of them in the back of the head, the New York Daily News reports. Harris County, Texas, deputies reportedly found the bodies of the family of eight inside their Houston…

A Brooklyn, N.Y., man who is facing life is prison since being charged with stabbing two children in an elevator, denied needing a psychiatric evaluation and insists that he is innocent, the New York Daily News reports. Daniel St. Hubert steadfastly denied needing a second mental evaluation, countering his lawyer’s request. “I’d like to refuse…

Unless you were living under some virtual (or literal) rock, you should already know that the first Republican debates occurred last night on Fox News. There were actually two: The first one, with the seven “second tier” candidates, aired on Fox News earlier in the evening. The second one, in prime time, featured the top…

The pastor of Atlanta’s renowned Ebenezer Baptist Church, which was once headed by Martin Luther King Jr., is considering a run for U.S. Senate, which would pit him directly against Republican Sen. John Isakson, who will be running for his third term, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The Rev. Raphael Warnock, 46, in an exclusive interview,…

An independent autopsy has concluded that Zachary Hammond, an unarmed white 19-year-old killed by a Seneca, S.C., police officer July 26 during a drug bust, was shot from the side, contradicting what the officer said led up to the fatal shooting, The Guardian reports. The officer claimed that the teen was driving the vehicle toward…