Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio says the Supreme Court’s ruling to allow same-sex marriage is “bad law” and that it should have been left up to state legislatures to change the definition of marriage.
A Chicago police commander accused of shoving his gun down a suspect’s throat and pressing a stun gun to the man’s groin has been acquitted by the trials judge.
Since dashcam footage showing a white Chicago police officer killing a black teenager was made public, city officials have released a series of videos showing police encounters with the public.
A judge found Evans not guilty following a bench trial last week for aggravated battery and official misconduct in the 2013 arrest of Rickey Williams, 25, according to a spokeswoman for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office.
After New Horizons revealed high resolution, never before seen images of Pluto’s dynamic and complex surface, NASA created this unique visualization of its space environment, from what New Horizons saw from January to July, during its voyage to Pluto. The pictures have a...
It was down to George Shelley, Ferne McCann and Vicky Pattison to battle it out to be crowned king or queen of the jungle, but first, there were a few final trials to be had. I was doing things I knew weren’t right and, unfortunately, this meant that my mum could not be...
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces increased pressure to resign, as local black religious leaders called early Friday for a “vote of no confidence” against him for the 2014 cops shooting of a 17-year old black teenager.
“But it also is an historic opportunity to confront an issue that has been around for generations”, said David Axelrod, a longtime Chicagoan who, as former senior adviser to Obama, worked closely with both the President and Emanuel.
The prosecution’s case rested on a couple of planks: the testimony of the arrestee, Rickey Williams, who said Evans brutalized him, and the DNA from Williams found on Evans’ gun.
In a statement, Human Rights Watch’s Sophie Richardson said that “nothing Pu Zhiqiang has written has violated any law, but the authorities’ treatment of him certainly has”. Police clashed with foreign journalists and protesters, who were banned from...
Despite Emanuel issuing an apology, several prominent Chicago pastors have rejected Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s gesture of forgiveness and are demanding that his administration release yet another dash cam recording in which a white police officer fatally shot seventeen-year-old...
Chinese police shoved diplomats, journalists and protestors away from a Beijing courthouse where the trial of prominent human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang began on Monday.