Univ Of Oklahoma Suspends Frat After Racist Video

The president of the University of Oklahoma chastised members of a fraternity on Monday who participated in a racist chant caught on video, calling them disgraceful and their behavior reprehensible.
President David Boren joined students at a pre-dawn rally on the Norman campus, just hours after the Sigma Alpha…

"Bloody Sunday" 50 Years Later

With a nod to ongoing U.S. racial tension and threats to voting rights, President Barack Obama declared the work of the Civil Rights Movement advanced but unfinished on Saturday during a visit to the Alabama bridge that spawned a landmark voting law.

Obama, the first black U.S. president…

US Ambassador Attacked In South Korea

U.S. ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert underwent two-and-a-half hours of surgery after he was slashed in the face by a Korean nationalist in an attack at a breakfast forum in Seoul on Thursday to discuss Korean reunification.

Lippert, 42, was bleeding from deep wounds to…

Boston Marathon Bombing Trial Begins

His life on the line, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went on trial Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing, with prosecutors saying he used a backpack to plant a bomb specifically designed to “tear people apart and create a bloody spectacle.”
“He believed that he was a soldier in a holy war against…

Video Shows Fatal Shooting of Homeless Man By LAPD (Graphic)

Police in Los Angeles fatally shot a homeless man in the city’s so-called Skid Row district after trying to subdue him with a Taser gun during a struggle that was caught on video, the police department said on Monday.

The man was a suspect in a robbery on…