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Activists are urging the Republican Jewish Coalition to abandon its support for presidential hopeful Donald Trump as the presumptive GOP nominee prepares to secure his party’s backing this month in Cleveland. Social justice group Bend the Arc launched a petition last week calling on Republican Jewish Coalition Director Matt Brooks to walk back the RJC’s

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will fly to Dallas “early next week,” aides said late Friday — cutting short a visit to Spain, and adding the police ambush to a litany of tragedies that have merited his attention. “The president has accepted an invitation from Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest

President Obama said Saturday it’s hard to “untangle the motives” of the shooterwho killed five Dallas police officers, despite the gunman telling police he wanted to kill white police officers. Mr. Obama made the comment at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, where he also issued another call for gun control in the wake of

Protests against the police killing of two African-American men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, in two separate incidents turned tense in Phoenix Friday. Thousands of protesters gathered across the country to express their anger against the brutal killing of Sterling and Castile. The protests come just a day after Micah Johnson gunned down five police

A U.S. Army reservist who served in Afghanistan, embraced militant black nationalism and professed a desire to “kill white people” has been named by authorities as the lone gunman in a sniper attack on police in Dallas that left five officers dead. Authorities said on Friday the suspect, identified as Micah Johnson, 25, was killed

Former President George W. Bush said Friday that his family is “heartbroken” by the killing of five police officers at a Black Lives Matter rally in Dallas, where he and his wife Laura reside. “Laura and I are heartbroken by the heinous acts of violence in our city last night,” Mr. Bush said in a

Dallas Police Chief David Brown stood before the television cameras Friday morning, hours after a gunman fatally shot five officers, and made one thing clear: His department was hurting. “We don’t feel much support on most days,” Brown said. “Let’s not make today most days.” He had spent a long night consoling the victims’ families,

WASHINGTON — Cleveland is reassessing its security plans for the Republican National Convention in the wake of Thursday night’s ambush in Dallas that left five police officers dead. City of Cleveland Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba told Reuters on Friday: “We have got to make some changes, without a doubt.” Tomba, who is the city’s

By Hillary Clinton Like so many people across America, I have been following the news of the past few days with horror and grief. On Tuesday, Alton Sterling, father of five, was killed in Baton Rouge — approached by the police for selling CDs outside a convenience store. On Wednesday, Philando Castile, 32 years old,