A mass of people protesting racism and police brutality closed part of a Philadelphia highway on Sunday. City officials closed off part of Interstate 676 when crowds invaded the highway, demanding the resignation of Mayor Jim Kenney over tear gas from protesters in the City of Brotherly Love last month, …
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A car drove to a closed highway early Saturday morning and struck two people in a crowd protesting against police brutality, killing one and seriously injuring the other, authorities said. Summer Taylor, 24, of Seattle, died at night at Harborview Medical Center, spokeswoman Susan Gregg said. Taylor and Diaz Love, …
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A statue of Christopher Columbus in Little Italy in Baltimore was knocked down amid protests Saturday night and then dumped into the Inner Harbor. Videos posted on social media showed that the statue was pulled down with a rope and then dragged down a flight of stairs before being thrown …
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Armed militias arrived in Gettysburg on July 4 to protect the city from a flag-burning protest, which turned out to be an apparent hoax on social media, according to reports. Hundreds of counter-protesters were drawn to a Facebook event on Saturday that called for people to come to the historic …
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Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia said it means “very much” that his father, the late Supreme Court Justice of the United States, Antonin Scalia, be included in the national garden proposed by President Trump to remember dozens of heroes Americans. “It would mean a lot. I didn’t see it coming … …
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