As Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched a new wave of deportations of Central American migrants, protests against the raids were carried out across the country.
The take-over of federal lands in eastern Oregon by a right-wing militia builds on a rancher land-grab that began when the Paiute Indians were usurped in the 1878 Bannock War.
Was the San Bernardino attack politically motivated terrorism or just someone's personal revenge? Either way, pundits right and left are going to be squirming…
In the wake of the latest campus shoot-up, calls are raised for pre-emptive restraint on the "mentally ill," but it is verboten to ask why so many people are driven to this pathology.
The US Department of Justice and county officials in Phoenix agreed to settle parts of a discrimination lawsuit filed against Maricopa County's anti-immigrant Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Some of those slain at Charleston's Mother Emanuel church were members of the Gullah people, a "nation within a nation" that preserves West African cultural traditions.
Amnesty International issued a report finding that all 50 US states fall below international standards on police use of lethal force. US police forces have killed 522 people this year.
The Charleston massacre suspect's Facebook photo shows him with the flags of apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia—as the Confederate flag flies at South Carolina's statehouse.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations called for a thorough investigation into the fatal shooting of a Muslim man in Boston by the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
A Sufi cleric who is a vocal critic of fundamentalist Islam is targeted by a fundamentalist Christian preacher who sought to massacre the Sufi's community in upstate New York.
The UN Committee Against Torture urged the US to begin prompt investigations into all cases of police brutality and excessive use of force, especially citing the Ferguson case.
Without losing their anti-militarist focus, the annual School of the Americas actions also protested the US government's enforcement-only approach to immigration.
