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During his introductory speech for Sanders, he admits that after extensive research of the hopeful, he believes Sanders is the right man for the job. Speaking with Huff Post Live, Mike even says Sanders is the extension of the late Dr. Martin Luther King.

Nation

A judge decided Tuesday that the jurors in the case of William G. Porter, one of the police officers involved in the Freddie Gray incident, will not be sequestered or banned from interacting with their loved ones and other people during trial.

The Daniel Holtzclaw trial is now into its fourteenth day. It is a trial that mainstream media has essentially ignored, possibly because of who the victims are and who the allegations are against. Holtzclaw, a former Oklahoma City police officer, faces 36 counts of rape, sexual battery, and forcible oral sodomy of 13 Black women […]

The mother of baby J'zyra Thompson and her boyfriend have been charged after the unsupervised toddler died from severe burns while playing in an oven with her siblings.

St. Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey is in stable condition at a South Florida hospital after being shot in the head late Tuesday night.

After footage of the gruesome shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was released to the public, a district manager of a local Burger King believes more corruption was involved in the case.

Outraged over the violent shooting of Laquan McDonald by a white Chicago police officer, protesters on Tuesday took to the streets and social media to condemn what appears to be nothing short of an execution.

A New York USPS worker was arrested for a hate crime Tuesday after he spit on two Muslim women and threatened to burn their place of worship down.

Chicago Police Department Supt. Garry McCarthy has recommended the firing of the off-duty officer who shot and killed unarmed Rekia Boyd in 2012.

Crime

Corey Morgan is a person of interest in the shooting death of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee.

The future police chief of a town in Pennsylvania has issued an apology for using the n-word in an email.