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0 | An unarmed black man shot Sunday night by Minneapolis police has died, and activists are calling for police to release videos of the incident that led to his death.
Jamar Clark, 24, had been on life support since the shooting. After his family removed him from life support, he died Monday evening, the Minnesota's Burea... | kim bellware | Article |
1 | Donald Trump approves of the way his supporters responded to a Black Lives Matter protester, reportedly beating him during a Saturday rally in Birmingham, Alabama.
"Maybe he should have been roughed up," Trump said during a Sunday morning call-in appearance on "Fox & Friends." "It was absolutely disgusting what he was ... | kim bellware | Article |
2 | Donald Trump approves of the way his supporters responded to a Black Lives Matter protester, reportedly beating him during a Saturday rally in Birmingham, Alabama.
"Maybe he should have been roughed up," Trump said during a Sunday morning call-in appearance on "Fox & Friends." "It was absolutely disgusting what he was ... | kim bellware | Article |
3 | Sometimes a wheat pasting is worth a thousand words.
Days after Donald Trump sparked outrage by proposing that all Muslims be banned from entering the United States, Atlanta police are investigating wheatpasted images featuring a caricature of the Republican presidential candidate on a Nazi flag.
The images were posted... | kim bellware | Article |
4 | Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday accused anti-capital punishment activists of mounting "a guerilla war on the death penalty" as the court heard arguments on whether lethal injection violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Alito noted during arguments in Glossip v. Gross that the ... | kim bellware | Article |
5 | Botched executions, inmate exonerations, lethal drug boycotts and admissions of prosecutorial misconduct -- in recent years opponents of the death penalty in the United States have been calling attention to serious concerns about when and how the state kills.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard opening oral argu... | kim bellware | Article |
6 | Someone has taken up Justice Stephen Breyer's invitation to challenge the constitutionality of the death penalty.
Breyer suggested in a dissenting opinion last month that the death penalty "very likely violates the Eight Amendment," and called for the U.S. Supreme Court to address "that very basic question."
The plaint... | kim bellware | Article |
7 | Richard Glossip wakes up each day knowing that at 6 p.m. on Jan. 29, he's going to die.
The 51-year-old has been on death row ever since he was convicted of first-degree murder nearly 17 years ago on the testimony of a single witness. Glossip has maintained his innocence from the start, and now he's hoping that a last-... | kim bellware | Article |
8 | Someone has taken up Justice Stephen Breyer's invitation to challenge the constitutionality of the death penalty.
Breyer suggested in a dissenting opinion last month that the death penalty "very likely violates the Eight Amendment," and called for the U.S. Supreme Court to address "that very basic question."
The plaint... | kim bellware | Article |
9 | Someone has taken up Justice Stephen Breyer's invitation to challenge the constitutionality of the death penalty.
Breyer suggested in a dissenting opinion last month that the death penalty "very likely violates the Eight Amendment," and called for the U.S. Supreme Court to address "that very basic question."
The plaint... | kim bellware | Article |
10 | From papal speeches to street protests, death penalty news loomed large in 2015.
Some states like Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Connecticut informally halted or outright struck the practice from their books, while others like Texas and Oklahoma scrambled to keep their death chambers running -- sometimes with disastrous re... | kim bellware | Article |
11 | The Oklahoma attorney general has suspended all executions in the state following a disastrous lethal injection drug mix-up that occurred just hours before a scheduled Wednesday execution.
Attorney General Scott Pruitt (R) on Thursday afternoon wrote that his office "needs time to evaluate the events that transpired on... | kim bellware | Article |
12 | The Florida Supreme Court stopped Thursday's scheduled execution of a convicted killer amid questions over whether the state's lethal injection drugs constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
The state high court on Tuesday evening ordered a stay of execution for Jerry William Correll, scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, pen... | kim bellware | Article |
13 | Botched executions, inmate exonerations, lethal drug boycotts and admissions of prosecutorial misconduct -- in recent years opponents of the death penalty in the United States have been calling attention to serious concerns about when and how the state kills.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard opening oral argu... | kim bellware | Article |
14 | The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in a 5-4 vote that Oklahoma may continue to use a controversial lethal injection drug during executions.
The Oklahoma death row prisoners who brought the matter to court "failed to identify a known and available alternative method of execution that entails a lesser risk of pain," ... | kim bellware | Article |
15 | Oklahoma on Friday added the gas chamber to its arsenal of ways to execute condemned killers if lethal injection, which has been plagued by chemical shortages and constitutional challenges, can't be used.
Gov. Mary Fallin (R) signed the law authorizing nitrogen hypoxia as a backup if the primary execution method, letha... | kim bellware | Article |
16 | Richard Glossip wakes up each day knowing that at 6 p.m. on Jan. 29, he's going to die.
The 51-year-old has been on death row ever since he was convicted of first-degree murder nearly 17 years ago on the testimony of a single witness. Glossip has maintained his innocence from the start, and now he's hoping that a last-... | kim bellware | Article |
17 | Oklahoma lawmakers voted Thursday to reinstate the gas chamber as a backup execution method to lethal injection.
The Oklahoma Senate voted 41-0 in favor of HB 1879, which legalizes execution by nitrogen hypoxia. Said by supporters to be more humane than using gases that cause suffocation, nitrogen hypoxia causes death ... | kim bellware | Article |
18 | Facing dwindling supplies of lethal injection chemicals and increased legal scrutiny of the practice, some states are considering a return to antiquated execution methods like firing squads and gas chambers -- and Oklahoma is considering using a new type of gas. But experts warn the problem with both new and old method... | kim bellware | Article |
19 | Firing squads are a legal execution method once again in Utah.
A law signed Monday by Gov. Gary R. Herbert (R) establishes firing squads as a secondary execution method in the event the Department of Corrections can't obtain drugs for lethal injection.
Lethal injection remains the primary execution method for Utah and ... | kim bellware | Article |
20 | A Cleveland police officer involved in the November 2014 fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice has been fired from the department, city officials announced Tuesday. A second officer involved has been suspended.
The department fired Timothy Loehmann, who was a rookie cop at the time of the shooting, and issued a 10-d... | kim bellware | Article |
21 | Barack and Michelle Obama are now Washington homeowners.
The former president and first lady bought the nine bedroom, eight-and-a-half bathroom home in D.C.’s historic Kalorama neighborhood that they had been renting since leaving the White House in January. They closed on the $8.1 million purchase on Wednesday, accord... | kim bellware | Article |
22 | An expert commissioned by the Ohio prosecutor investigating last year's fatal police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice called the killing "objectively reasonable" in a report issued Thursday.
The report -- the third expert opinion justifying Cleveland, Ohio, police actions in the killing -- said a toy gun that Tamir b... | kim bellware | Article |
23 | An Ohio grand jury has declined to indict the Cleveland police officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice, an unarmed black 12-year-old, in 2014.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty announced the decision Monday afternoon, 401 days after rookie patrolman Timothy Loehmann shot Rice at a park in Cleveland. The grand j... | kim bellware | Article |
24 | An expert commissioned by the Ohio prosecutor investigating last year's fatal police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice called the killing "objectively reasonable" in a report issued Thursday.
The report -- the third expert opinion justifying Cleveland, Ohio, police actions in the killing -- said a toy gun that Tamir b... | kim bellware | Article |
25 | As a former NASA astronaut, retired Navy Capt. Mark Kelly has seen some of the most unique views of the earth.
In response to the news Thursday that President Donald Trump would withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change, Kelly tweeted that “seeing the Earth from 250 miles up gives you a new appreciat... | kim bellware | Article |
26 | As a former NASA astronaut, retired Navy Capt. Mark Kelly has seen some of the most unique views of the earth.
In response to the news Thursday that President Donald Trump would withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change, Kelly tweeted that “seeing the Earth from 250 miles up gives you a new appreciat... | kim bellware | Article |
27 | Leland Melvin was propelled by many a rocket during his time as a NASA astronaut, but just two weeks ago the 50-year-old was launched to viral stardom by a single tweet.
While researching the Challenger explosion, reporter Adam Aton came across Melvin’s official NASA portrait from 2009. Within hours, Melvin’s self-desc... | kim bellware | Article |
28 | Mountain climber Alex Honnold defied death and made history at California’s Yosemite National Park ― and he did it all in under four hours.
The 31-year-old elite climber on Saturday became the first person to scale the nearly 3,000-foot face of Yosemite’s El Capitan granite formation without ropes or safety gear, an ac... | kim bellware | Article |
29 | Mountain climber Alex Honnold defied death and made history at California’s Yosemite National Park ― and he did it all in under four hours.
The 31-year-old elite climber on Saturday became the first person to scale the nearly 3,000-foot face of Yosemite’s El Capitan granite formation without ropes or safety gear, an ac... | kim bellware | Article |
30 | A fight at an apartment complex in Columbus, Ohio, late Saturday left a Somali-American woman hospitalized, a neighbor facing eviction and police looking for answers.
Columbus police on Monday released information about the brawl, which was allegedly marked by racist threats, in an effort to dispel “rumors and speculat... | kim bellware | Article |
31 | Chipotle employees have sued the fast-casual restaurant chain for allegedly failing to pay overtime compensation, which they say they are entitled to under a recent Labor Department rule at the center of a separate court battle.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in a federal court in New Jersey, maintains that the Obama-era... | kim bellware | Article |
32 | CHICAGO -- The Chicago Police Department's top cop has been fired.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday that he had formally asked for the resignation of Superintendent Garry McCarthy, whom he hand-picked to lead the department in 2011.
McCarthy has faced harsh criticism for his handling of the high-profile shooting of Laqu... | kim bellware | Article |
33 | Note: This video is graphic and may be disturbing to some viewers.
CHICAGO -- City officials on Tuesday released police dashcam video showing an officer shooting teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times, continuing to fire well after the youth falls to the ground. The court-ordered release of the video came hours after author... | kim bellware | Article |
34 | The Justice Department will investigate the Chicago police for possible civil rights violations, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Monday morning.
Later Monday, NBC and CBS reported that Constantine "Dean" Andrews, the Chicago Police Department's chief of detectives, had resigned from his post.
As the second lar... | kim bellware | Article |
35 | The sight of a cop emptying 16 bullets into the body of a black teenager was one Chicago police likely hoped the public would never see. But after a year-long battle to get dashcam footage released, viewers around the world on Tuesday night watched video of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald take his last steps before officer... | kim bellware | Article |
36 | CHICAGO ― Spencer Leak, who’s helped prepare Chicago’s dead since he was a boy, is looking back at 2016 with a mix of shock and sadness.
The city has seen more than 750 homicides this year and approximately five times as many shootings.
“My dad founded the funeral home in 1933, and I’ve been at my father’s business sin... | kim bellware | Article |
37 | CHICAGO -- Embattled Cook County States Attorney Anita Alvarez was ousted in the Democratic primary Tuesday night by challenger Kim Foxx (D), who now eyes a November bid for the role of top prosecutor of the nation's second-largest county.
Shortly before 9 p.m., Foxx led with more than 61 percent of the votes with 76 p... | kim bellware | Article |
38 | CHICAGO -- The Chicago Police Department must face a "painful but necessary reckoning" that includes acknowledging its racist history and the legacy it has created, according to a report released Wednesday by the city's Police Accountability Task Force.
"CPD cannot begin to build trust, repair what is broken and tatter... | kim bellware | Article |
39 | The National Women’s Law Center has sued the Department of Education in an effort to pry loose a trove of data related to the agency’s oversight and rules enforcement related to sexual harassment in U.S. schools.
The nonprofit, which advocates for women’s rights, claims the Department of Education failed to comply with... | kim bellware | Article |
40 | District attorney seats have been among the safest in local elections.
Recent incumbent prosecutors' election losses suggest a tough-on-crime approach is becoming a political liability rather than an asset.
Declining crime rates and activists organizing at the local level are influencing this new trend.
During Chicago'... | kim bellware | Article |
41 | Victims of the deadly warehouse fire at the Ghost Ship artist collective in Oakland, California, are slowly being identified as officials sift through the wreckage of one of the deadliest fires in the city’s history.
(See the faces and names of the victims below)
Authorities were removing debris from the site “bucket b... | kim bellware | Article |
42 | Victims of the deadly warehouse fire at the Ghost Ship artist collective in Oakland, California, are slowly being identified as officials sift through the wreckage of one of the deadliest fires in the city’s history.
(See the faces and names of the victims below)
Authorities were removing debris from the site “bucket b... | kim bellware | Article |
43 | The sexual harassment claims against former Fox News chief Roger Ailes have only grown worse in the month since Gretchen Carlson filed suit against the 76-year-old media legend.
Carlson, a former Fox News host, dropped the bombshell allegation that Ailes had harassed her throughout her time at the network and enabled a... | kim bellware | Article |
44 | Steve Bannon, the Breitbart News Network executive chairman known for having white nationalist views ― and who has himself been accused of anti-Semitism ― was named chief strategist and senior counselor to President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday.
Bannon, 62, was taking time off from Breitbart to serve as CEO of the Trum... | kim bellware | Article |
45 | CHICAGO -- Citing a lack of confidence in Chicago's top prosecutor, a coalition of politicians, lawyers and community leaders on Tuesday formally called for an independent prosecutor to handle the trial of the police officer charged in the shooting death of teenager Laquan McDonald.
Cook County States Attorney Anita Al... | kim bellware | Article |
46 | CHICAGO -- Citing a lack of confidence in Chicago's top prosecutor, a coalition of politicians, lawyers and community leaders on Tuesday formally called for an independent prosecutor to handle the trial of the police officer charged in the shooting death of teenager Laquan McDonald.
Cook County States Attorney Anita Al... | kim bellware | Article |
47 | Illinois law enforcement authorities will need court approval to use cell phone trackers like StingRay that can sweep up data from innocent citizens, according to a new state law.
The ACLU of Illinois said the law, signed on Friday, is “as far-reaching and comprehensive as anywhere in the county.”
“There’s a growing se... | kim bellware | Article |
48 | Illinois law enforcement authorities will need court approval to use cell phone trackers like StingRay that can sweep up data from innocent citizens, according to a new state law.
The ACLU of Illinois said the law, signed on Friday, is “as far-reaching and comprehensive as anywhere in the county.”
“There’s a growing se... | kim bellware | Article |
49 | Penguin Random House will publish forthcoming books by Barack and Michelle Obama, the publisher announced Tuesday. The former president and first lady will publish separate books, but jointly sold the rights.
The auction to secure the publishing deal for the two books topped $60 million. The figure is a record-breaking... | kim bellware | Article |
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author = {Ma, Marcus and Le, Duong Minh and Kang, Junmo and Dou, Yao
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title = {CROSSNEWS: A Cross-Genre Authorship Verification and Attribution Benchmark},
journal = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2025},
volume = {39},
number = {23},
pages = {24777--24785},
month = apr,
doi = {10.1609/aaai.v39i23.34659},
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