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Changing times
Climate change talks are on today in Paris. Two-thirds of Americans want the U.S. to join the international community in setting global climate...
THE QUESTION of what happened to Freddie Gray will, with luck, eventually be answered in court. And although it's a critically important question, it's...
Election defection
The head of the Federal Election Commission bears bad news: “The likelihood of the laws being enforced is slim,” Ann M. Ravel, the...
Baltimore has in the past four years paid out $5.7 million in police brutality settlements, The Baltimore Sun reported last fall. Since Freddie Gray’s death two...
The six officers who arrested Freddie Gray have received a variety of criminal charges from Maryland State Attorney Marilyn Mosby, reports the Baltimore Sun.
Gray...
"One of the cops fell off his motorcycle, which created this moment of chaos. I don’t know if they worried they’d be vulnerable, but they just started attacking people."
By Monday, the Baltimore protests against the killing of Freddie Gray had seized the imagination of the country. And Hillary Clinton came out in support of gay...