President Barack Obama will speak to the nation from the Oval Office Sunday night about the San Bernardino, Calif., attack and the war against the Islamic State group, The Hill reports. The White House said, “He will reiterate his firm conviction that ISIL [also known as ISIS or the Islamic State] will be destroyed and…

A new report says that Tamir Rice’s hands were in his pocket and not reaching for his toy gun when a Cleveland police officer fatally shot him last year, the Associated Press reports. This video analysis, released Friday by the attorneys for Tamir’s family, disputes a statement by the officers involved in the shooting, which…

Fresh uproar may be on the horizon in Chicago. Amid calls for greater transparency, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said yesterday that the city will no longer oppose the release of a police dashboard video that reportedly shows an officer fatally shooting a black man in the back, the Chicago Tribune reports. Authorities said that Police…

Both sides in the trial of Baltimore Police Officer William Porter, one of six officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody, delivered opening statements to a mostly black jury Wednesday, NBC News reports. After Gray’s arrest in April, police officers put handcuffs and ankle shackles on the 25-year-old. They placed him in…

Law-enforcement officials arrested a suspect accused of threatening to kill white men at the University of Chicago, CNN reports. Jabari Dean, 21, allegedly posted his threat on social media over the Thanksgiving weekend. It stated that he would shoot 16 white male students or staff at the campus Monday morning. The message noted that the…

Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke walked out of jail Monday night after posting $150,000 bail—that’s 10 percent of his $1.5 million bond, USA Today reports. Van Dyke is charged with first-degree murder for gunning down 17-year-old Laquan McDonald last year. The police dash-cam video of the shooting, released just last week by a judge’s order,…

Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, who was fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer, testified Monday before the grand jury investigating the case, WKYC reports. The family’s attorney, Subodh Chandra, released a statement following her appearance, which lasted less than 90 minutes. “Ms. Rice told the grand jury about how she learned about…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held court with black ministers on Monday, and they urged him to tone down his racial rhetoric, the Associated Press reports. After the meeting, Trump said that “most” of the pastors there endorsed him, according to The Hill. Controversy has surrounded the meeting at Trump’s headquarters in New York City.…

Ke’Arre M. Stewart, an Iraq War veteran, was one of the victims of Friday’s attack at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., KKTV reports. Stewart’s sister told KKTV that he was shot outside the building while talking on his cellphone. Although wounded, he called 911 and went back inside the clinic to warn others.…

One of the Minneapolis police officers under investigation for fatally shooting Jamar Clark was sued for excessive force, in a separate case, 10 days before the Clark shooting, the Star Tribune reports. Nathaniel Hanson alleges in his federal lawsuit that Officer Dustin Schwarze deployed a Taser three times at him during a 2011 traffic stop.…