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A federal judge dismissed Ferguson, Mo., rioters’ $40 million civil rights that claimed police used excessive force against them Monday. U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey ruled in favor of the Missouri law enforcement, reports WWMT. The nine plaintiffs, “have completely failed to present any credible evidence that any of the actions taken by these individuals were taken with malice or were committed in bad faith,” Autrey wrote in his ruling.

There is outrage after Chicago police shot and killed a 16-year-old boy. In Homan Square on Monday night, police pulled over a car that was connected to an earlier shooting. Police say Pierre Loury jumped out and an officer chased him. Police say Loury then pointed a weapon at the officer and that is when he was shot. But a witness claims he saw officers "high five" each other after the teen was gunned down. And now, protesters are demanding justice. A group held a vigil at the scene of the shooting and then marched onto the Eisenhower. Even though...

No one knows more about the massive failure of public housing “revitalization” than Team Obama and its hapless Chicago social engineers and architects. In 2009, I put the spotlight on Altgeld Gardens and the unfulfilled promises of Richard Daley and Valerie Jarrett’s “Plan for Transformation.” Flashback: For decades, the public housing boondoggle has provided lucrative jobs and windfalls for Daley cronies and developers. The failure to make the communities safe for families and kids touches not only Obama, but his closest advisers — including real estate mogul/Daley operative/consigliere/city planning commissioner/Habitat Company chief Valerie Jarrett. Daley/Jarrett’s “Plan for Transformation” for Chicago...

DAMASCUS, April 26 (AFP) - 20h46 - A Kurdish leader on Monday charged three Kurdish detainees had been tortured to death in Syria and that police were continuing to arrest Kurds living in the north of the country. "The arrests of Kurds is continuing ... Three Kurds died from torture," Abdel Baqi Yussef, leader of the banned banned Kurdish party Yakiti, said nearly six weeks after an outbreak of violence left at least 25 people dead. But a call from 11 Kurdish political movements for a strike Sunday to protest the continuing arrests, was ignored in northeastern Syria when the...