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Horrific footage shows a schoolgirl being brutally beaten by two boys on a school bus – as they rain down punches on her head. The parents of the 9-year-old are now planning to press charges against her attackers after the sickening footage was posted online. None of her fellow students at the Coconut Palm K-8 Academy in Homestead, Florida, intervened in the attack. Instead, her peers filmed the merciless attack from the two boys and started cheering them on throughout the attack as they watched. The schoolgirl's parents have said they will demand criminal charges against the two boys who...

Terrible. The fire in East Baltimore. Dozens of people out here crying and in disbelief: "This is our church!" pic.twitter.com/2DTf1m7sia— Yvonne Wenger (@yvonnewenger) April 28, 2015 CNN reports the senior center was newly built, part of Baltimore’s Southern Baptist church. That massive fire in Baltimore confirmed by CNN reporter as a Southern Baptist Church's new senior center. Now, in ruins.— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) April 28, 2015 Pastor Hickman: burning building was to be 60-unit affordable housing for seniors. "It hurts my heart," he says. pic.twitter.com/jYXuMMDtBx— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) April 28, 2015 Update: After I originally posted this, there was...

A purported conversation captured on a YouTube video apparently shot in the immediate aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown has a possible witness saying the unarmed 18-year-old charged at the officer who fired the shots that have led to more than a week of sometimes violent demonstrations in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.

ORLANDO — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. strongly condemned so-called “Stand Your Ground” laws here Tuesday in a speech to the NAACP that addressed the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin. The laws “sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods,” Holder said, by “allowing – and perhaps encouraging – violent situations to escalate in public.”