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The Supreme Court met today for an extended debate on United States v. Texas, a decision that has the power to impact the lives of millions of undocumented immigrants and their families. The case concerns a program announced by the Obama Administration in November 2014. Called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans …

Midtown Manhattan became a heated battlefield Thursday evening as thousands of protestors convened around Grand Central Station to protest a GOP fundraising gala at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, where all three remaining Republican presidential nominee hopefuls were in attendance.  The NYPD was out in full force, prepared with riot gear, …

Recently released documents show that University of California-Davis has spent $175,000 to have consultants scrub any postings relating to the Nov. 18, 2011 incident of a police officer using pepper spray on protestors. During an Occupy Wall Street protest at UC Davis, UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike pepper-sprayed protestors …

Supreme Court Justice Denny Chun ruled today that ex-NYPD officer Peter Liang will not be granted a re-trial for the murder of Akai Gurley. Liang, who shot and killed the unarmed 28-year-old father of three in November, 2014,  was indicted by a grand jury on manslaughter, assault, and other criminal charges in …

Chicago now reels from the loss of 16-year-old Pierre Loury, the third person to die this year in a Chicago police-involved shooting. An officer whose identity has not yet been released to the public fatally shot Loury in the chest Monday night after a brief foot chase. The officer says …

Salt Lake City Police Department issued a press release Saturday reporting that two officers had shot and wounded a 17-year-old.  According to the release, officers saw two males attacking a male victim with metal objects.  After ordering them to drop their weapons, one of the attackers complied while the other …

The officially-released facts in the killing of Greg Gunn last Thursday morning in Montgomery, Alabama are few and sometimes contradictory. One certainty is that no answer has been given as to what led at least one police officer to shoot this unarmed 59-year-old black resident of the Mobile Heights neighborhood five …

Migrants in Germany have arranged their own protests against the New Years Eve attacks against women at the Cologne cathedral.  Reports of attacks on that night have now grown to over 500, leading primarily men to take to the street with signs declaring that not all migrants are responsible. The …

“The police targeted Rev. Harris after a protest for the officer shooting death of Freddy Centeno. Fresno police officers followed Rev. Harris and a member of the brown berets home, where they confronted him with a warrant for leading the protest at the Federal courthouse on Aug 10, 2015.” — Brian Sumner from CopBlock

Muslim women are speaking out that they feel particularly targeted by a section of the American population which has failed to distinguish Muslim-Americans from terrorists.  Women wearing hijab may feel as if they might as well be wearing targets on their bodies.  Sirin Kale reports on the recent incidents of …

December 16, 2012 an Indian woman boarded a bus home from a movie theater in Delhi and was brutally raped by six men.  She was left by the roadside near death and died in the hospital 13 days later.  Of the six attackers, one died in jail, four received death …

The protesters are a pro-gun, white, conservative anti-Muslim hate group calling themselves, “Three Percenters”…