Tag: Human rights and civil liberties
AP-NORC poll: Police violence remains high concern in U.S.
<p>A year after <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/death-of-george-floyd">George Floyd’s murder</a> at the hands of a white police officer sparked global protests and a racial reckoning, a majority...
Cubs fan beaten by officer after World Series awarded $53K
CHICAGO — A federal jury has found that a Chicago police lieutenant used excessive force when he tackled and beat a man during the...
Judge: City didn’t target dead lawyer in Mississippi scandal
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming a Mississippi city was at fault in the death of a lawyer who killed himself in...
USDA to begin paying off loans of minority farmers in June
Minority farmers who for decades have faced systemic discrimination will begin to receive debt relief beginning in early June under what Agriculture Secretary Tom...
US steers El Salvador funding away from government
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The United States Agency for International Development will redirect its funding from El Salvador's state institutions to its civil...
Dunkin’ worker charged with manslaughter in customer’s death
TAMPA, Fla. — Florida prosecutors filed a manslaughter charge Friday against a Dunkin’ store employee accused of fatally punching a 77-year-old customer after the...
Police say antisemitic attacks in Los Angeles may be related
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police are investigating a potential link between two antisemitic attacks this week in a heavily Jewish neighborhood of the...
EXPLAINER: How Congress’ Jan. 6 commission would work
WASHINGTON — An independent commission to study the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection would be modeled after a similar panel that studied the 9/11 terrorist...
Migrant surge on Spain-Morocco border brings more suffering
FNIDEQ, Morocco — They are desperate teenagers and jobless men. They come from Morocco’s coastal towns, its mountainous east or even farther away —...
Arrests in Times Square melee over Israel; Jewish man beaten
NEW YORK — More than two dozen people were arrested as pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators clashed in New York City's Times Square and police...