The country is still grappling with the recent police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and more violence and tragedy has broken out in Dallas in the aftermath. The senseless deaths of ...

Following last week’s acquittal of Minnesota cop Jeronimo Yanez on manslaughter charges, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension opened its case file on the fatal shooting of Philando Castile.

*New information about the shooting of Philando Castile by police officer Jeronimo Yanez on July 6 in Minnesota has been released. Castile was apparently pulled over by police because he matched the ...

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*As you can imagine, the mother of Philando Castile is not at all happy after a jury found the Minnesota police officer who killed her son not guilty on Friday. Valerie Castile made sure the world ...

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There was a time when Spanish winemakers tossed small, dead animals in with their grapes to speed the fermentation process. That's the kind of attention-grabbing factoid one learns while touring the ...

Fifteenth-century Castile was a time of significant religious change. The issue of conversion and variance in religious praxis engendered the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, an institution ...