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  • 2 Calif. Police Officers Killed, 1 Wounded by Gunman

    Two Palm Springs, Calif., police officers were killed and one was injured Saturday by a lone gunman wearing body armor and equipped with high-capacity magazine, the Los Angeles Times reports. The officers who were killed have been identified as Officer Jose “Gil” Vega, a 35-year veteran of the Palm Springs Police Department who was due…

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  • Justice Department Announces Investigation Into Ala. Prison Conditions

    The U.S. Department of Justice will be conducting an investigation into the conditions at Alabama’s prisons for men, it announced in a statement Thursday. “The investigation will focus on whether prisoners are adequately protected from physical harm and sexual abuse at the hands of other prisoners; whether prisoners are adequately protected from use of excessive…

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  • Samsung Issues Worldwide Halt on Sales and Exchanges of Note 7

    Samsung has asked for a halt on all sales and exchanges of its Note 7 on Monday while an investigation into the phone’s overheating issues continues. “Samsung will ask all global partners to stop sales and exchanges of Galaxy Note 7 while further investigation takes place,” the company said in a statement on its website:…

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  • Carnell Snell Jr., Fatally Shot by Police, Laid to Rest in South Los Angeles

    Family and friends gathered at a South Los Angeles church Saturday to say goodbye to Carnell Snell Jr., who was fatally shot by Los Angeles police. The 18-year-old was remembered by a few hundred mourners at First AME Church, the Los Angeles Daily News reports. As his body lay in a blue coffin draped with…

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  • Cops Raid 81-Year-Old Mass. Woman's Garden for 1 Marijuana Plant

    Margaret Holcomb is an 81-year-old woman from Amherst, Mass., who suffers from typical ailments of old age: glaucoma, arthritis and insomnia. Because of the difficulty in obtaining a medical-marijuana card and the cost of traveling to a dispensary in the next town to obtain marijuana, she decided to grow her own plant in her garden,…

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  • Video Shows Donald Trump Having Lewd Conversation About Women in 2005 

    A 2005 video obtained by the Washington Post shows Donald Trump having a sexist, lewd conversation about women on a hot mic while riding a bus to a soap opera appearance. In the video, Trump and Billy Bush, then of Access Hollywood, are riding a bus with the show’s logo on the side to the…

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  • New Emails Reveal White House and State Department Coordinated During Clinton Email Scandal

    Newly released emails show that the White House and the State Department coordinated in 2015 to avoid controversy related to the Hillary Clinton email server scandal, the Wall Street Journal reports, according to The Hill. The Republican National Committee submitted a Freedom of Information Act request that yielded email exchanges from within the Obama administration that…

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  • Chicago Police Department Proposes New Use-of-Force Policy

    Details of a new policy requiring Chicago police officers to use the least amount of force necessary and emphasizing “the sanctity of life” were released Friday by Chicago’s top cop. ABC News reports that Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson told reporters at a news conference that the draft aims to “clarify response options to officers during…

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  • Black Women Are Still More Likely to Die From Breast Cancer 

    According to a recent study (pdf), black women are more likely than white women to die from breast cancer. The study, conducted by Mark Hurlbert, chief mission officer at the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and Bijou Hunt, an epidemiologist at the Sinai Urban Health Institute, was conducted over the last decade and analyzed breast-cancer mortality…

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  • Bill Cosby's Attorneys File Motion to Drop Sexual Assault Case

    Attorneys representing Bill Cosby filed a motion in court Thursday requesting that the sexual assault charges against him be dropped, the Los Angeles Times reports. The motion was filed in the Pennsylvania court where Cobsy is facing trial for a 2004 incident involving Andrea Constand, who was a Temple University basketball staffer at the time.…

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