Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO — Six people are dead, and at least 11 other victims have been wounded in city shootings since Friday afternoon as Chicagoans start the holiday weekend. Police said the latest fatal attack happened shortly before 4:45 a.m. Saturday in the 440

NPR

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"The issues that surround body shaming can be devastating," Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said after Dani Mathers pleaded no contest to a charge of invasion of privacy.

The Guardian

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The book was banned by New Jersey prisons, and I understand why: it showed me the injustice of our criminal justice system

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - Six people - nearly all teenage children - were shot in two separate attacks that happened about a mile apart Saturday night on the West Side. The first shooting unfolded in the Lawndale neighborhood. Three people, including two teenage boy

TIME

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FOR PROOF THAT THE PAST lives in the present, look no further than the news earlier this year that prisons in Florida, North Carolina and other states had banned inmates from reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander’s influential book about race

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - Charges are pending against a man accused of throwing two small dogs off a second-floor balcony in Chicago's West Town neighborhood during a fight with his wife, killing a 17-year-old Chihuahua, authorities said. The second dog ran away and

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO — A nationwide arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for an 18-year-old man from Chicago suspected of being involved in the fatal shooting at the Rosemont fashion outlet mall Friday night that also left a 15-year-old girl injured, the Rosemont Pu

The Millions

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A list of recommended titles focused on the issues surrounding white supremacy and institutional racism, police brutality, mass incarceration, and anti-racist political activism. The post An Anti-Racist Reading List appeared first on The Millions.

Guernica Magazine

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Rachel Kushner's new novel, The Mars Room, is a study in empathy. The post Life on Mars appeared first on Guernica.

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO — A man and a teenager were in custody early Wednesday in connection with the fatal shooting of 8-year-old Melissa Ortega, who was shot in the head as she walked through Chicago's Little Village neighborhood with her mother this past weekend,

NPR

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Critics said New Jersey puts black residents behind bars at a rate 12 times the rate of white residents and it's unconstitutional to deny those inmates access to information in the book.

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - A gunman opened fire on a Chicago Transit Authority bus Monday evening, leaving three people wounded, two of them seriously, authorities said. The shooting occurred on a northbound No. 75 bus in the 7700 block of South State Street in the C

Chat

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A talented musician, brimming with ambition, Anthony Hill could have taken many different paths in life. So his mum Carolyn Baylor Giummo wasn’t too happy when Anthony decided to join the United States Air Force. Naturally, Carolyn worried about her

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES — The gunman who killed four people, including a 9-year-old boy, at an Orange office park locked the gates to the complex with bike cable locks and was armed with a weapon as well as pepper spray and handcuffs, police said Thursday. Autho

Newsweek International

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I HAVE BEEN A NEW YORK CITY police officer for more than 14 years, and I have lived on this earth for 35 years. I have heard stories about how decades ago, Times Square was a place you didn’t go to. From prostitution, to the drug trade and larceny, c

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - Chicago police turned a boy's fourth birthday party into a traumatic memory of guns drawn, presents destroyed and parents handcuffed after officers raided the wrong home in the South Side Gresham neighborhood last month, a federal lawsuit c

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - Two students were shot in a classroom in Salvador Castro Middle School in Westlake on Thursday morning, and one is in critical condition, authorities said. Police received a report of shots fired about 8:55 a.m. local time, according to

NPR

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Darwin A. Martinez Torres, 22, is accused of killing Nabra Hassanen of Reston, Va., who was reportedly walking with her friends back to a mosque after getting breakfast early Sunday.

The Atlantic

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Hi all. Thanks for joining in on this collective read of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. The conversation will take place in comments below. You can tackle any angle as long as you've done the reading. That last part bears some emphasis—this c

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - A man suspected of firing a gun at police has died after officers shot him on the West Side on Saturday afternoon in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood. The 30-year-old man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, offic

NPR

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The rampage happened at three separate locations in the county, and suspect Willie Corey Godbolt said that he intended to commit "suicide by cop." The state's governor called it a "senseless tragedy."

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES — A single-story home on a quiet street in Lancaster became a scene of tragic crime Sunday night when a father shot and killed his four children and their grandmother, authorities said. Germarcus David, 29, was arrested on suspicion of mu

NPR

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Sheriff Joe Lombardo said the shooter injured Jesus Campos about six minutes before turning his weapon on a music festival. The comments mark a major adjustment to the timeline of the police response.

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - In a period of a little over 24 hours this weekend, 24 people were shot in Chicago, including three children under 13 - and three of the adults shot died from their injuries, according to police. Beginning at 4 a.m. Saturday through about 1

Sunday Independent

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FRANKFURT: German physicists have set a new world record by recording the shortest time span ever measured, Frankfurt’s Goethe University said on Friday. The researchers measured how long it takes for a photon to cross a hydrogen molecule, and conclu

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - A 55-year-old orthopedic surgeon was charged this week with several felonies after authorities say she tried to kidnap her son - brutally beating a woman in the process - during a supervised visit in Goleta this month. Authorities say T

NPR

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Colorado Springs police say De'Von Bailey reached for a firearm prior to running from officers. Bailey's family says newly released body camera footage disputes that version of events.

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - When Cat Packer was chosen to head a Los Angeles city department that would help usher in the legalization of marijuana, then-Council President Herb Wesson billed her appointment as a bold example of what Los Angeles stood for. Packer h

Chat

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A Northumbria Police spokesperson says, ‘Shortly before 10.30pm on 17 September, police received a report that three males had been taunting members of the public as they walked through the underpass connecting Exhibition Park to Brandling Park. The

WHO

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Since 1988, Steve Johnson has flown into Sydney 20 times, but not to take in the city’s famous beaches and landmarks – it’s to solve the heartbreaking mystery of his brother’s death. And this time, the American feels the answer is closer than ever. “