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Details: Written by Josh Lederman, Associated Press; Published: 07 November 2015

Obama heads to Paris at the end of the month for a major international summit on climate change

Details: Written by Mark Sherman, Associated Press; Published: 04 November 2015

Eddie Hood speaks during an interview at his home in Rome, Ga., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. Hood was a potential juror in the murder trial of Timothy T. Foster who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly white woman in 1987. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether prosecutors improperly singled out potential black jurors, including Hood, in notes and then excluded them all from the death penalty trial. (AP Photo/ John Bazemore)

Six of the nine justices indicated that black people were improperly kept off the jury that sentenced Timothy Foster to death

Details: Written by Josh Lederman of the Associated Press; Published: 03 November 2015

President continues push for criminal justice reform

Details: Written by NOMAAN MERCHANT, MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press; Published: 03 November 2015

Part Three of the AP's year-long investigation into law enforcement officers and sexual misconduct

Details: Written by MARTHA IRVINE, SCOTT SMITH, Associated Press; Published: 02 November 2015

When law enforcement misuse their power who can victims turn to

Details: Written by NOMAAN MERCHANT, MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press; Published: 01 November 2015

The Bureau of Justice statistics doesn't track how many law officers are convicted of sexual misconduct

Details: Written by JENNY BARCHFIELD, Associated Press; Published: 01 November 2015

Native people from Russia to the Amazon took part in the event

Details: Written by RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer; Published: 01 November 2015

Carson says he wants his church to ordain women

Details: Written by JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press; Published: 31 October 2015

From pregnant women (video) to girls, Black women are mistreated in the same way as Black men

Details: Written by Meg Kinnard, Associated Press; Published: 28 October 2015

In this Monday, Oct, 26, 2015 photo made from video taken by a Spring Valley High School student, Senior Deputy Ben Fields tries to forcibly remove a student who refused to leave her high school math class, in Columbia S.C. The Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation Tuesday after Fields flipped the student backward in her desk and tossed her across the floor. (AP Photo)

Deputy Ben Fields was fired after video showed him flipping a teen backward out of her desk

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