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A Pine Bluff City Council member got into an argument with a black resident on a Facebook forum and misspelled the man's name to include a racial slur. The official refuses to step down.

Lithuania will stop taking in people who fled the war, saying that this may spur Ukraine to create acceptable conditions for them.

The briefs pertain to Texas Federal Judge Andrew Hanen’s injunction against President Barack Obama’s executive action.

Hillary Clinton, then secretary of state, lauded Colombia's human rights record as oil company cash flowed to her family foundation.

In the wake of the Walter Scott shooting, families of black men killed by police speak out at a National Action Network gathering.

Louisiana’s proposed marriage act would give private business owners more power in asserting their marriage beliefs on clients.

Families, friends and supporters remembered those who died in April 2013 after defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on 30 criminal counts.

“After review by our team, the campaign set up for Officer Slager was removed from GoFundMe due to a violation of our terms and conditions."

Former SEC lawyer Edward Siedle has combed through $1 trillion in pension fund investments. Now he's offering his services on Kickstarter.

The jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial announced its verdict after one day of deliberations. The case now moves into the sentencing phase.

Some Hong Kong residents aren't happy with mainland Chinese shoppers -- and not just because they crowd the streets.

"That demonstration out here has nothing to do with the city of North Charleston. It has to do with the show that they want to put on to the black community across the nation."

If airports and seaports are shuttered, the country's humanitarian crisis could escalate, relief workers say.

Mayor R. Keith Summey's office said he has "become widely known as a consensus builder among local leaders," and said his top priority is "upgrading the quality of life of the citizens of North Charleston."

Posters showing Adolf Hitler meeting with a Muslim leader are called racist by a prominent Egyptian religious organization.

The city will continue to pay medical benefits for Slager's wife, who is eight months pregnant.

Russia's cost of living provokes model to protest nude.

China is using the crisis in Yemen to show the world its military power -- and it's working.

"The risk is that this will lead to a lack of vigilance," a police spokesman said.

“There must be national policy and national law on policing,” Sharpton said.

Chinese authorities are drawing attention to mounting labor unrest, but aren't signaling any new response.

Pro-Russian rebels say the ceasefire has been broken 45 times in 24 hours; Ukraine says it's the rebels who are gearing up for war.

The white police officer who killed Walter Scott was charged with murder.

Lubitz researched diuretic drugs online before he reportedly locked flight captain Patrick Sondenheimer out of the cockpit and crashed the plane on March 24.

Poll results and Twitter comments suggest that whites are less likely to see race as a factor when cops kill unarmed black men.

“When we don’t have body cameras in use, unfortunately, everything is left to speculation. And that’s not good for our society and our community,” said South Carolina state legislator Rep. Wendell Gilliard.

The police officer who shot and killed Walter Scott was reportedly cleared of wrongdoing in a prior incident involving a stun gun.

After losing national elections, the Peoples Democratic Party must win state-level races Saturday -- or face possible collapse.

Despite denials of service surrounding Religious Freedom Reformation Acts, same-sex weddings could be a boost to the wedding industry in a time in which marriage rates are down.