The head of the U.S. Democratic Party resigned Sunday on the eve of the party’s national convention set to affirm former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as its 2016 presidential nominee. Debbie Wasserman Schultz quit the post amid a furor over leaked emails that show party leaders mocked and criticized the upstart campaign of […]
CLEVELAND—Hopes by Donald Trump and the Republican Party to hold a carefully scripted national convention were thrown into disarray Monday, after a chaotic shouting match erupted on the convention floor, displaying long-standing tensions between pro- and anti-Trump factions of the party. In scenes of disorder not seen in a Republican convention in several decades, hundreds […]
At least three police officers have been shot and killed and several others injured in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, local officials said. A spokesman for the sheriff’s office says one suspect has been killed two other are believed to be at large. Details on the incident are still coming in. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards called […]
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, […]