Open carry gun rights cause jitters at Republican convention
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Even gun rights advocates are questioning whether people should be allowed to carry rifles and handguns during protests at this week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland in the wake of the shootings of six police officers…
Baton Rouge: A city divided between police and the policed
(Reuters) – Before the killing of three law enforcement officers on Sunday and the fatal shooting of a black man by police earlier this month, Baton Rouge was a city divided between the police and the policed.
California student among dead in France Bastille Day attack: UC Berkeley
(Reuters) – A California university student who has been missing since Thursday’s Bastille Day attack in Nice is among those who died after a truck driver deliberately plowed through a crowd, killing at least 84 people, University of California, Berkel…
Police union: Open carry of guns should be suspended at Republican convention in Cleveland
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – The head of the Cleveland police union on Sunday urged Ohio’s governor to declare a state of emergency and to suspend laws allowing the open carrying of firearms during the Republican National Convention, after the shooting of six…
In U.S. cities hit by killings, shared concerns over cops’ tactics, race
(Reuters) – Nekima Levy-Pounds, president of the Minneapolis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, compares the city’s mostly white police department to “an occupying force” when its officers go into black neighborh…
Wildfires rage across Southwest, forcing home evacuations
(Reuters) – Several destructive wildfires were raging across the Southwestern United States on Saturday, after consuming dozens of homes and forcing evacuations.
Florida ups reward to $20,000 for escaped murder suspect’s arrest
(Reuters) – Authorities have raised the reward to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest of a man accused in the 2014 murder of a member of the prominent Halliburton family, who escaped from a Florida courthouse during a proceeding on Friday.
FAA bans flights from Turkey to U.S. after failed coup
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has prohibited all airlines from flying from Turkey to the United States, it said on Saturday, after a failed coup sparked violence and a government crackdown there.
Two pilots plucked from water off Hawaii after small plane crash
(Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard has plucked two lightly injured pilots out of the Pacific Ocean a day after their small plane went down in the water off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island, officials said late on Friday.
New urgency for Cleveland security after France truck attack
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Cleveland on Friday set up concrete traffic dividers and tall metal fences around next week’s Republican National Convention site, measures meant to thwart an attacker like one in France who drove a truck into a crowd, killing mor…
