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Mark Gordon, 52, was charged with assault this week after video showed him trying to run over a photographer with his SUV on a rural California road.

In analyzing this year's election season, former CBS News anchor Dan Rather reached back 41 years.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig announced on Monday that he was demoting a detective who referred to Black Lives Matter as "terrorists" on Facebook.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) over the weekend demanded that media outlets begin referring to Black Lives Matter activists as "thugs" instead of calling them "protesters" or "people."

Former NYPD detective Harry Houck on Monday argued that the black Americans were "prone to criminality," and that activists should stop claiming that blacks were being "picked on" by law enforcement.

Former Congressional Black Caucus Executive Director Angela Rye took issue on Sunday with white Americans who think they "allowed" Barack Obama to become president.

Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik shamed controversial conservative host Tomi Lahren on Sunday after she accused Black Lives Matter of being the "new KKK."

David Epstein, a film critic for CBS and NPR, on Sunday took on what he called "a culture deformed by double standards" that pressure women to get plastic surgery.

President Barack Obama on Sunday condemned violence against police officers, noting that it did a "disservice to the cause" that Black Lives Matter is fighting for.

Dr. Robert Jeffress, pastor at First Baptist Church in Dallas, lashed out at what he called "bogus ministers" who did not preach about having "respect for the police."

The mother of a Minnesota man who was shot and killed by police Wednesday night accused law enforcement of conducting a "silent war against African-American people."

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) did not concede the Democratic party primary on Wednesday but he went further in acknowledging Hillary Clinton's lead than ever before in an interview with MSNBC host Chris Hayes.