tear gas

The national semantics exercise over “pepper balls” and “tear gas” has continued.

President Donald Trump and some of his supporters are claiming authorities did not use tear gas against people in a crackdown outside the White House this week

Civil rights advocates asked the new U.S. attorney in St. Louis on Friday to investigate allegations of police misconduct at recent protests that were sparked by the acquittal last month of a white officer charged in the death of a black suspect. Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, said in a letter to U.S. Attorney...

Fans without tickets to a show at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center tried to storm the venue Thursday night, forcing security workers and police to lock the doors.

Fans without tickets to a show at Barclays Center tried to storm inside, forcing security workers and police to lock the doors to the venue.

Police arrested 143 people after protesters blocked traffic on a busy highway near downtown St. Louis as part of the ongoing demonstrations against the acquittal of a white former police officer in the 2011 killing of a black man. Protesters gathered Tuesday evening and marched to Interstate 64, where some walked onto the roadway and blocked traffic for several minutes....

Charlottesville residents are getting a chance to talk with city officials about a white nationalist rally earlier this month that devolved into deadly violence. The city is hosting what it calls a “community recovery town hall” on Sunday, after it had been rescheduled from Thursday, in collaboration with the Community Relations Services of the Department of Justice. Officials will provide...

A white nationalist who says he pepper-sprayed a demonstrator in self-defense on the campus of the University of Virginia was denied bond at a court hearing Thursday. Christopher Cantwell of Keene, New Hampshire, was taken into custody at the police department in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was transported from a regional jail in Lynchburg to the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail in Charlottesville...

University of Virginia police say Christopher Cantwell of Keene, New Hampshire, is wanted on three felony charges: two counts of the illegal use of tear gas or other gases and one count of malicious bodily injury with a “caustic substance,” explosive or fire.

The Trump administration imposed new sanctions on members of Venezuela’s supreme court for alleged human rights violations as it grows more concerned about the crackdown on anti-government protesters, U.S. congressional aides said Thursday.

Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat and partner Cyrille Auxenfans were the targets of a botched robbery attempt involving tear gas in a wealthy area of Paris, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Thursday.

Police say they used tear gas to flush a suicidal man who had killed several family members from his house — and that’s when he stepped outside and killed himself. The Mason County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday released a timeline of the standoff, which began after David Wayne Campbell, 51, called a sheriff’s office supervisor Friday morning to say he...

Stone-throwing demonstrators on Monday smashed car windows and set at least two vehicles ablaze in Haiti’s capital, hours after several electoral offices were attacked in northern towns as the country prepares for a Jan. 24 presidential and legislative runoff....
Roughly 2,000 protesters took to the streets in downtown Port-au-Prince calling for new elections and the immediate removal of outgoing President Michel...

A sheriff says negotiations are continuing with over 2,000 inmates who have seized control of part of a federal prison in South Texas in what he called an “uprising.”

A four-hour standoff ended with the arrest of a man with warrants for aggravated assault after an Irving pizzeria manager tipped police to his location Wednesday.