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Black Lives Matter gaining traction in Utah, seeking answers

July 21, 2016 12:00 AM
Black Lives Matter protesters gather in Salt Lake City. (Jeremy Stanford)
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Utah's political clout unchanged despite presidential candidate visits

March 21, 2016 12:00 AM
Large crowds cheered as presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders joked, 'Someone told me Utah is a Republican state. It doesn't look that way this afternoon!'
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Latinos protest Trump's Salt Lake rally

March 20, 2016 12:00 AM
Protests and raucous crowds have become subtexts for Donald Trump's political rallies, and the scenario in Salt Lake City was no different on Friday.
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Univ. of Missouri fires instructor after student run-ins

February 25, 2016 12:00 AM
Melissa Click, right, an assistant professor in the University of Missouri's communications, is seen during a run-in with student journalists during protests on the Columbia campus. Top administrators at the school on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, announced they had fired Click. She was suspended after being videotaped calling for 'some muscle' to remove a student videographer during the protests. (Mark Schierbecker via AP, File)
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Two South African universities suspend classes over protests

September 15, 2015 12:00 AM
Protests outside Vaal University of Technology in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa. (Twitter/@eNCA)
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US attorney general praises police officers as peacemakers

August 10, 2015 12:00 AM
Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks in East Haven, Conn. Lynch is voicing her support for police officers in a speech before the National Fraternal Order of Police. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
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The latest on Ferguson: Arrests as protesters block court

August 10, 2015 12:00 AM
A protester yells as police form a line across West Florissant Ave., Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo., before shots were fired near the protest. The one-year anniversary of Michael Brown's death in Ferguson began with a march in his honor and ended with a protest that was interrupted by gunfire. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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Rams, police differ on Ferguson protest apology

December 03, 2014 12:00 AM
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis Rams official and a county police chief differed Monday about whether the team had apologized for the actions of five players who raised their hands during pregame festivities in a show of solidarity with Ferguson protesters.
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Secretary of State Clinton condemns video that sparked attacks on American interests

September 13, 2012 12:00 AM
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday condemned the YouTube video sparking violence against American interests in the Middle East as both 'disgusting and reprehensible,' and clarified that the United States government does not support the content of the video.
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American killed in Libya protest over film

September 12, 2012 12:00 AM
CAIRO (AP) — Protesters angered over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad fired gunshots and burned down the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing one American diplomat, witnesses and the State Department said. In Egypt, protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo and replaced an American flag with an Islamic banner.
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Viewpoint: The importance of dissent

May 08, 2012 12:00 AM
Articles accounting the saga of Chen Guancheng, a blind Chinese activist, have filled newspapers across the country for the past two weeks. On April 22, Chen made the more than 300-mile trek from his small village where he had been under house arrest for two years to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
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