DALLAS (Reuters) – The U.S. military veteran who fatally shot five Dallas police officers last week was plotting a larger assault, authorities said, disclosing how he had taunted negotiators and written on a wall in his own blood before being killed. Protests against U.S. police tactics continued for a third straight day on Sunday, with […]
WASHINGTON—North Korea is threatening to take “physical action” after the U.S. and Seoul announced plans for deployment of a sophisticated missile defense system in South Korea. Pyongyang made the threat Monday, several days after Washington and Seoul revealed plans to use the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system – THAAD – on the Korean peninsula […]
Dallas police say a deadly ambush Thursday that killed five police officers during a protest was a “well-planned” attack carried out by several people. The U.S. military has confirmed one of the people, widely reported in U.S. media to be Micah Xavier Johnson, is a former Army Reservist who served in Afghanistan. Three other people, […]
An African American man was fatally shot Wednesday night by a police officer during a traffic stop in the midwestern city of Falcon Heights, Minnesota, prompting the governor, Mark Dayton, to call for an independent federal investigation. It was the second fatal police shooting of an African American male by white police officers in […]