A 34-year-old female spectator watching a Major League Baseball game in St. Louis on Tuesday was grazed by a stray bullet while inside the ballpark, police said Wednesday. The incident took place during a 2-1 Cardinals victory over Milwaukee at Busch Stadium when, police said, a woman felt pain in her arm and a bullet … Read more
A white former police officer whose killing of an unarmed black man running from a traffic stop was captured on video has pleaded guilty to federal civil rights charges that could send him to prison for 20 years. The plea from Michael Slager, 35, came five months after a jury deadlocked on state murder charges … Read more
Deadly weekend storms have left at least 14 dead in the midwestern and southern United States, according to officials, as eastern regions faced potential damaging winds and isolated tornadoes into Monday. Severe weather devastated homes, overturned cars and felled trees, with the National Weather Service confirming at least four tornadoes in Texas. The mayor of … Read more
Arkansas has put to death its fourth inmate within a week after a dozen years without a single execution. Kenneth Williams, 38, killed two people after escaping from a maximum-security prison where he was serving life for murdering a cheerleader. His lawyers said he was intellectually disabled, but the US Supreme Court rejected his last … Read more
Arkansas executed another inmate on Thursday, the last in a series of lethal injections that the state has squeezed into a compressed timeline, even as the daughter of one of his victims appealed for clemency. A plan by the conservative southern state to execute eight prisoners in 11 days — before its stock of a … Read more
Arkansas was set to execute another inmate on Thursday, the last in a series of lethal injections that the state has squeezed into a compressed timeline, even as the daughter of one of his victims appealed for clemency. A plan by the conservative southern state to execute eight prisoners in 11 days — before its … Read more
CNN caught up with Tip “T. I.” Harris at the SXSW festival last month, where the Grammy-winning rapper and actor premiered his latest passion project, “Us or Else” — a short film that examines the relationship between police and the black community. “Police brutality is really just a tentacle to a larger problem — the … Read more
A 58-year-old man who started a massive fire in Los Angeles in anger over police killings of African-Americans was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Monday following a plea deal. Dawud Abdulwali admitted to starting the December 2014 blaze at the unfinished seven-storey downtown Da Vinci apartment complex, causing damages in excess of $100 … Read more
Superstar golfer Tiger Woods announced on his website Thursday that he has undergone a fourth back surgery to alleviate pain, one that likely sidelines him until October. “The surgery went well, and I’m optimistic this will relieve my back spasms and pain,” said Woods, who hasn’t played competitive golf since pulling out of the Dubai … Read more
President Donald Trump has said Neil Gorsuch will be “truly great”, as the Colorado judge took the oath to become a justice on the US Supreme Court. “And I got it done in the first 100 days,” Mr Trump quipped at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. “You think that’s easy?” Mr Gorsuch, … Read more
Fans in the US state of Missouri have been paying their final respects to the rock ‘n’ roll legend Chuck Berry who died last month aged 90. They were allowed to view the performer’s body at the Pageant club in St Louis before a private family funeral on Sunday. As fans filed past the open … Read more
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday blasted an agreement to rein in Baltimore’s notorious police department, saying it would lead to more crime. He criticized a federal judge’s approval of a consent decree that requires Baltimore police to implement sweeping reforms. The agreement — which followed riots in the East Coast city after the … Read more
Pepsi has pulled an advert that sparked an outcry and accusations that the drinks maker was trivialising recent street protests across the US. She defuses the tension by walking to the police line and handing an officer a can of Pepsi, prompting cheers. In a statement posted on its website, Pepsi said they did not … Read more
Pepsi has pulled an advert that sparked an outcry and accusations that the drinks maker was trivialising recent street protests across the US. She defuses the tension by walking to the police line and handing an officer a can of Pepsi, prompting cheers. In a statement posted on its website, Pepsi said they did not … Read more
How should the United States honor the wishes of the last American World War I soldier, who asked for a national monument to the country’s role in the conflict? The answer is more complicated than it seems. Frank Buckles, who was a teenage ambulance driver in the Great War, was dismayed to discover on a … Read more
UN experts urged American lawmakers Thursday to stop pushing “undemocratic” anti-protest legislation, which they warned breached US and international law ensuring rights to freedom of expression and assembly. Since the presidential election in November, lawmakers in at least 19 US states have introduced bills to restrict the rights of protesters, the United Nations rights experts … Read more
Mexico has identified a potential weapon in its trade wrangle with US President Donald Trump: lucrative yellow cobs of American corn. The Latin American nation imports billions of dollars’ worth of the yellow grain from the United States to feed its livestock. But with Trump pushing to shake up the countries’ trade ties, Mexico is … Read more
President Barack Obama honored Chuck Berry, who died Saturday in Missouri at age 90, with a commemorative tweet on Sunday morning, noting the famed performer “rolled over everyone who came before him — and turned up everyone who came after.” He continued: “We’ll miss you, Chuck. Be good.” Obama’s salute to the guitarist and singer-songwriter … Read more
Musical stars are paying tribute to Chuck Berry after the influential performer died aged 90. US singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen said he was “the greatest pure rock ‘n’ roll writer who ever lived”. Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones said Berry “lit up our teenage years, and blew life into our dreams of being musicians and … Read more
Chuck Berry, the guitarist and songwriter recognised as one of the fathers of rock ‘n’ roll, has died aged 90. Berry’s seven-decade career boasted a string of hits, including classics Roll Over Beethoven and Johnny B. Goode. He received a lifetime achievement Grammy in 1984 and was among the first inductees to the Rock and … Read more