Who, if anyone, is leading the emerging movement around the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner — younger activists or legacy civil rights groups?

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The images are reminiscent of a war zone: Helmeted officers pointing weapons from armored trucks, flash grenades lighting the night sky and tear gas exploding in crowded streets.

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The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra says Music Director Marin Alsop has been injured following an accident in Brazil and is canceling her conducting engagements for July. The orchestra announced Wednesday that Alsop suffered a minor injury to her wrist after an ...

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Students with deep religious convictions are fast turning public schools into the newest battleground over abortion — much to the dismay of beleaguered school officials.

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WASHINGTON — Groups led by black ministers on opposite sides of the gay marriage debate are planning dueling protests at Gallaudet University. But the groups will be asking for the same thing during their rallies Thursday at the university for ...

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The comparisons have already started — police in Egypt attacking demonstrators with clubs and tear gas, and police in a number of U.S. cities breaking up “Occupy” camps with clubs and tear gas. If you’re a demonstrator in Cairo or ...

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WASHINGTON — Extra! Extra! Read all about the protests! Two Washington demonstrations modeled after the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York and others around the country are coming out with their own newspapers. The first issue of The Occupied ...

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The “Occupy Wall Street” movement and its rapidly spreading urban echoes are — like the tea party movement — grand examples of Americans using at least two of our lesser-known First Amendment freedoms: assembly and petition. Regardless of how you ...

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Whatever your thoughts about the controversial Fred Phelps family and their Westboro Baptist Church — and for most Americans, those thoughts are negative — the group continues to find ways to grab headlines and public attention. In the wake of ...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Kansas-based group that has used inflammatory language to protest military funerals nationwide prompted California senators to approve a bill Wednesday restricting how close such protesters can get to funeral services and religious observances. The bill by ...

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