New York City Police Department officers are under investigation, this time for beating a 16-year-old suspect even as he tried to surrender, according to DNAinfo New York. The news site obtained exclusive footage showing the two officers run up to suspect Kahreem Tribble. Kahreem stops running, only to have one officer try to punch him.…

Hammond, Ind., police have come under fire after one of their officers was caught on video smashing open the passenger window of a vehicle and using a Taser on the man in the passenger seat, all while his family watched, Fox32 reports. According to the report, the incident in late September began as a traffic…

Thomas Eric Duncan will begin taking the experimental drug brincidofovir as his condition grows worse in his fight with the deadly Ebola virus, CBS News reports. The man, who became the first person to be diagnosed on U.S. soil with Ebola, had traveled from Liberia to Dallas to visit family when he began exhibiting symptoms.…

Note: It might not ever be funny to joke about a lethal virus responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. Florida’s Jacksonville Jaguars are learning this lesson after their mascot, Jaxson de Ville, came under fire for carrying around a Pittsburgh Steelers Terrible Towel along with a sign declaring, “Towels Carry Ebola,” during a Sunday…

The focus of a Saturday-night St. Louis Symphony Orchestra concert took a dramatic shift away from classical music when a group of Michael Brown protesters crashed in the form of a flash mob, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. According to the report, after the intermission the orchestra and chorus were gearing up to perform Johannes…

In a heartwarming display of sportsmanship both on and off the field, the New England Patriots came out in full-fledged support of the daughter of Cincinnati Bengals defensive tackle Devon Still, 4-year-old Leah Still, who is battling cancer, the New York Daily News reports. According to the report, during the Sunday-night game between the two teams,…

How do expectations, particularly teacher expectations, affect students in the U.S.? Are standards high enough? Does Common Core, which has been adapted by some states, set the bar too high? These are all questions that Center for American Progress senior fellow Ulrich Boser has tried to unpack in an issue brief (pdf), and there is a…

America has a race problem, and one of the best ways to deal with it is to acknowledge the systemic and structural manifestations that help reinforce the country’s contentious racial history. This is what the vice president for policy and senior adviser at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Gail Christopher, says is the focus of the…

An outraged Invanhoe, N.C., woman is demanding answers after her mentally ill brother was shown to have died from dehydration while serving time, WNCN reports. Last week Brenda Liles told reporters that anyone involved in her brother’s death should go to jail. That was the same Friday that seven people, including nurses and a captain,…

Teachers are normally lauded when they defend their students, but in Phoenix-area elementary school teacher Pam Aister’s case, she was given the boot after she backed up a 9-year-old who was allegedly being tormented and called racist names by some peers, the New York Daily News reports. Fourth-grader Malachi Gillis was called a n—ger and…