FSRN Weekly Edition – July 15, 2016
Bastille Day attack in Nice kills at least 84 Trump taps Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as VP candidate Funerals for officers slain continue through the week Funeral for Philando Castile draws hundreds to Minnesota’s...
Funerals for Dallas officers continue through the week
Demands for policing reform and accountability are growing, as protesters stayed in the streets and mourners turned out to remember the seven people slain last week in spiraling racial violence across the United States....
Trump taps Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as VP candidate
U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump names his vice presidential pick just days after Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton. FSRN’s Nell Abram has more. Download Audio The deadly violence in Europe Thursday night caused...
Protests sweep the U.S. calling for police reform
In the wake of the the police killings of two black men and the sniper attack that killed five Dallas area police officers last week, Black Lives Matter demonstrations swept the country. FSRN’s Lena...
Bastille Day attack in Nice kills at least 84
An attack in France kills scores of Bastille Day revelers. Nell Abram has more. Download Audio Amateur video captured the horrific sights and sounds in France late Thursday after a semi truck plowed through...
August recess starts two weeks early for the U.S. Congress
August recess is starting two weeks early on Capitol Hill. And lawmakers are skipping town with a long to-do list left undone. Tanya Snyder brings us the scene. Download Audio Welcome to the last...
Funeral for Philando Castile draws hundreds to Minnesota’s St. Paul Cathedral
Funeral services continue for the seven people slain in last week’s spiraling racial violence which began with back-to-back police killings of black men, one in Louisiana the other in Minnesota, followed by the deaths...
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence floats to top of Donald Trump’s VP list
Indiana’s Republican Governor Mike Pence has emerged as Donald Trump’s most likely running mate. Multiple sources told news outlets Thursday that Trump has picked the first-term governor though Trump’s office refuses to comment until...
Theresa May replaces David Cameron as UK Prime Minister
The UK has a new Prime Minister as of Wednesday. British voters’ surprising decision to back a referendum to pull out of the European Union has caused a political crisis in the UK. The...
More than 30 dead as protests escalate in Kashmir
The death toll in Indian controlled Kashmir climbed again Tuesday amid widespread protests. The escalation comes after Indian troops killed a popular leader of the separatists’ movement. As Bismillah Geelani reports the ongoing violence...
