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Many participants paid tribute to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and said they were against the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to fill Ginsburg’s seat.

Denver’s district attorney says a television station security guard accused of fatally shooting a pro-police demonstrator following opposing rallies will be charged with second-degree murder.

A private security guard working for a TV station was in custody Saturday after a person died from a shooting that took place during dueling protests in downtown Denver

Police arrested 28 people during a third straight night of protests over the lack of charges against a suburban Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot a Black teen, authorities said Saturday. About 100 people gathered outside City Hall on Friday past Wauwatosa’s 7 p.m. curfew and refused multiple orders to disperse, according to police. Police said two of the arrests…

After months of grappling with a pandemic that has walloped New York’s Orthodox Jewish communities, prompting changes to holidays, mourning and prayers, new limits on worship and other activity in some areas are pushing tensions in some neighborhoods of Brooklyn to the boiling point. New restrictions in places where coronavirus cases are rising, including several Orthodox areas, led to street...

A prominent Orthodox Jewish organization based out of Queens and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn announced separate lawsuits to halt restrictions on religious gatherings put in place by the state of New York, just as a third day of protests over the new lockdown orders got underway in Brooklyn. Agudath Israel of America on Thursday asked for a temporary…

A grand jury has indicted the St. Louis couple who displayed guns while hundreds of racial injustice protesters marched on their private street

Federal law enforcement officials were directed to make public comments sympathetic to Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with fatally shooting two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, according to internal Department of Homeland Security talking points obtained by NBC News.

Calls to defund police departments have not had widespread success across the U.S. While a handful of left-leaning cities have proposed structural reforms, most cuts to law enforcement agencies have been modest so far.

After a night of largely peaceful protests Thursday, Breonna Taylor’s family speaks publicly for the first time since the grand jury announced its findings in Taylor’s case Wednesday.

Two Louisville police officers are recovering after being shot Wednesday night during downtown protests that erupted after a grand jury’s decision not to charge the officer who shot and killed Breonna Taylor. Only one officer was charged with wanton endangerment.

For months, actors, sports stars, musicians and other celebrities have been using their platforms to call for justice in the police shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

Four people filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday demanding that Facebook prevent militias and hate groups from using the site, after a militia group used the platform to draw armed people to protests in Wisconsin last month that left two people dead.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has been sworn in to his sixth term in office at an inaugural ceremony that was not announced in advance amid weeks of huge protests saying the authoritarian leader’s reelection was rigged.

Louisville Police Chief Robert Schroeder says two officers have been shot while responding to a report of shots fired. Both officers are hospitalized and in stable condition.

From the campaign trail in Charlotte, N.C., Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday called for peaceful protests after a grand jury in Kentucky declined to charge officers in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

Protesters gathered in cities across the country to protest the verdict in the grand jury case against Louisville police officers, who shot and killed Breonna Taylor in March.

Gov. Andy Beshear spoke out on Wednesday about calling in the National Guard, saying, “Our goal is to make sure that we can keep everybody safe.” The governor also called for peaceful demonstrations after armed members of the alt-right group Three Percenters were seen walking downtown Louisville.