Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  Stacey Newman/Shutterstock   By Julie Pace Associated Press ANTALYA, Turkey — President Barack Obama on Monday conceded that the Paris terror attacks were a “terrible and sickening setback” in the fight against the Islamic State, but forcefully dismissed critics who have called for the U.S. to change or expand its military campaign against…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Frederic Legrand – COMEO / Shutterstock.com   By Jake Pearson and Dan Sewell Associated Press NEW YORK — From cafes in New York to tailgate parties in the heartland, the bloodbath in Paris is forcing Americans to ponder the awful possibility of terrorist attacks on “soft targets” in the U.S. such as restaurants,…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Jamar Clark of Minneapolis  is shown in this photo provided by the Hennepin County, Minn., Sheriff’s Department. Clark was shot during a struggle with a Minneapolis Police Officer responding to a report of an assault on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015 in Minneapolis.  (Hennepin County Sheriff’s Department via AP)   By Amy Forliti Associated…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Abdelhamid Abaaoud  (Militant Photo via AP) By Thomas Adamson and Samuel Petrequin Associated Press PARIS — The Belgian extremist suspected of masterminding the deadly attacks in Paris died along with his cousin when police stormed a suburban apartment building, French officials said Thursday, a day after the chaotic, bloody raid. Police found Abdelhamid…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Supporters raise the fists in solidarity during a rally, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015 at Traditions Plaza on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Mo., calling for the resignation of the University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe. The group organized the rally to draw attention to race relations on MU campus. Wolfe…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Commissioner Richard Ross By Denise Clay You would probably think that there’s not a whole lot that the President of the NAACP and the President of Philadelphia’s Fraternal Order of Police could agree on. But the fact that Minister Rodney Muhammad, president of the Philadelphia NAACP and John McNesby, president of Philadelphia’s FOP…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Eddie Hood speaks during an interview at his home in Rome, Ga., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. The Supreme Court appears troubled by the actions of a Georgia prosecutor in disqualifying all the black prospective jurors from the death penalty trial of a black teenager who was accused of killing an elderly white woman….

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Protesters march against police shootings and racism during a rally in Washington, DC on December 13, 2014.  (Rena Schild / Shutterstock.com)   By Jesse J. Holland associated press WASHINGTON — Years before the high-profile deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, more than half of African American millennials indicated they, or…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Sunny Fowler speaks during a rally on Oct.18, by University of Mississippi students calling on the university to remove the Mississippi state flag from university grounds, in Oxford, Miss. Student senators at the university voted Tuesday night, Oct. 20, to ask the school administration to remove the Mississippi flag from campus because it…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This three image combo made from video taken by a Spring Valley High School student on Monday, Oct, 26, 2015, shows Senior Deputy Ben Fields trying to forcibly remove a student from her chair after she refused to leave her high school math class, in Columbia S.C. The Justice Department opened a civil…

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