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The US Justice Department is to investigate the fatal shooting of a black man by police in Louisiana. It is reported the US attorney, the FBI and federal prosecutors will be involved in the inquiry. What happened? A second video showing the shooting death of #AltonSterling has emerged https://t.co/talcCuQMeF (Graphic images) pic.twitter.com/Na4nRUZVfN— CNN International (@cnni) […]

Republicans officially petitioned the administration Thursday to deny Hillary Clinton access to secret information as Democrats’ presidential nominee, and some GOP lawmakers said if the intelligence community won’t do it, they’ll pass a bill to do it themselves. The White House has said it won’t deny Mrs. Clinton access, saying it is a tradition for

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch called for more restrictions on access to firearms and praised protesters who mobilized against controversial police practices in the aftermath of a deadly attack on police in Dallas, Texas. “We must take a hard look at the ease with which wrongdoers can get their hands on deadly weapons and the

WASHINGTON — Negotiators had been talking for hours with the hunkered-down killer of five police officers in downtown Dallas when the man suddenly resumed firing with an assault rifle. Fearing additional casualties, the officers deployed a small, remote-controlled robot to carry an explosive device near shooter Micah Xavier Johnson, which they then detonated, killing him.

AUSTIN, Texas — Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called protesters who ran away from the hail of bullets that rained down on downtown Dallas on Thursday night “hypocrites” during an interview Friday on Fox News. “All those protesters last night, they turned around and ran the other way expecting the men and women in blue to

LOS ANGELES — Rappers and Los Angeles-area natives the Game and Snoop Dogg led a unification march for men of color Friday morning to the LAPD’s graduation of its newest officers, hours after five Dallas police officers were shot and killed and seven others were wounded during a sniper attack. About 6:30 a.m., the Game

WASHINGTON — Up against the least-popular presidential candidates ever, Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party and Jill Stein of the Green Party are getting extra attention. Both have been included in a series of polls and performed relatively well. And while neither may win any electoral votes, Johnson can still spoil the Southwest for GOP

WASHINGTON — Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a veteran of the civil rights movement, said he never felt ill will towards police officers who “beat him bloody” during demonstrations in the 1960s. Friday morning, Lewis tweeted: “I was beaten bloody by police officers. But I never hated them. I said, ‘Thank you for your service.’” Lewis,

WARSAW, Poland  (Press Release)– President Obama, meeting with NATO allies in Poland, made the following statement Friday morning about the Thursday night massacre of five police officers and the wounding of others: THE PRESIDENT:  “I speak for every single American when I say that we are horrified over these events, and that we stand united with

Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who on Wednesday clarified that his father-in-law is not anti-Semitic following the infamous “Star of David tweet”, is facing backlash from his relatives. JTA reported on Thursday that two of Kushner’s cousins, Marc Kushner and Jacob Schulder, took to Facebook to rap their cousin, a businessman married to Trump’s daughter

The ambush of Dallas police has the potential to upend the presidential campaign, forcing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to navigate race, violence and law enforcement in ways that are even more complex than the fraught situation before the attack on Thursday that left five police officers dead and six others recovering from bullet wounds.