While nearly 1,000 people have been killed by police this year alone, it’s hard to know if that number is accurate — local police departments are…

  The killings are being looked at as hate crimes, though it is not known as of right now it was hate behind the motivation…

  Oakland is reeling after a gun rampage at a small religious college left seven people dead. Six months ago, eight people died in a shooting in Seal Beach, California. And just over a year ago, an attack targeting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona left six dead and 13 injured. Each mass killing provokes a […]

BEIRUT — A mass protest calling for sweeping changes in Syria’s authoritarian regime turned bloody Friday, with the government and protesters both claiming to have sustained heavy casualties as the country’s three-week uprising entered a dangerous new phase. Human rights activists and witnesses said Syrian security forces opened fire on tens of thousands of protesters […]