Ciara McCarthy
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Victoria, TX, United States
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Without insurance, man's life hangs in balance
Michael Flores lay in his hospital bed, waiting for a lifesaving surgery that was at least 100 miles away. → Read More
Watch 9/11 Ceremony: Still Heartbroken After 16 Years, NYC Remembers
Tribeca-FiDi, NY - Monday marks 16 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. → Read More
Times Square Driver Faces Murder Charges, Police Say
Midtown Manhattan, NY - Richard Rojas, the man whom police say plowed his car into a sidewalk full of pedestrians, has been charged with murder. → Read More
Anti-Trump Bar Funds Progressive Charities, Drink By Drink
East Village, NY - Coup, a new bar that plans to donate to progressive charities with each drink sold, opened in April in New York City. → Read More
9/11 Families Sue Saudi Arabia
Tribeca-FiDi, NY - Hundreds of families who lost someone in 9/11 sued Saudi Arabia, accusing the government of being complicit in the terror attack. → Read More
Obama commutes a final 330 sentences, most in a single day by any US president
Two days after cutting short the prison term of Chelsea Manning, a new flood of commutations further cements the president’s record-breaking numbers → Read More
Chelsea Manning thanks Barack Obama for 'giving me a chance'
Manning, a whistleblower and former military intelligence analyst in Iraq, had her 35-year military prison sentence commuted by the outgoing president → Read More
EU chief executive on Trump 'mix up' with other official: 'It's all in the detail'
The president-elect mistook Jean-Claude Juncker for Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, Juncker says: ‘Trump spoke to Mr Tusk and mixed us up’ → Read More
CIA makes 12m pages of declassified documents searchable online
Decades of US intelligence files were previously only available on four computers during business hours at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland → Read More
Chicago police regularly engage in excessive force, says Loretta Lynch
US justice department finds black and Latino civilians hardest hit by ‘unlawful force’ after 13-month investigation into city’s law enforcement → Read More
Ben Carson refuses to guarantee no housing funds will benefit Trump
Former presidential candidate is accused of plagiarism in opening remarks at Senate confirmation hearing for housing secretary post → Read More
Ben Carson confirmation hearing for secretary of housing: the key points
The retired pediatric neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate is known for his belief in conspiracy theories and presenting absurd metaphors → Read More
Young black men again faced highest rate of US police killings in 2016
The Counted project points to continuing racial disparities, with black males aged 15-34 nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed → Read More
New York City police fatally shoot armed men in two incidents in Brooklyn
Police killed a man armed with a 13-inch knife and another man who fired shots into a lounge in two separate occurrences overnight on Wednesday → Read More
More US police officers killed in 2016 – but number still below 10-year average
New analysis shows 135 officers died on the job in 2016, the highest in five years but still well within the 10-year average of 151 officers a year → Read More
YouTube star allegedly kicked off Delta flight 'for speaking Arabic' is known for pranks
Adam Saleh, whose videos have drawn millions of followers, recorded himself being escorted from plane after ‘people felt uncomfortable’, he told the Guardian → Read More
Murder rate expected to rise in largest US cities – but spike is unevenly felt
New Brennan Center analysis shows second straight year of murder increases in 30 cities, but national murder rate is still much lower than in the 1990s → Read More
Killings by US police logged at twice the previous rate under new federal program
US government pilot program, which draws on information collected by the Guardian, publishes first data gathered under new ‘hybrid’ counting system → Read More
Police say 73-year-old shot by officer had crucifix that was mistaken for gun
Francisco Serna was killed in Bakersfield, California after police responded to a 911 call from Serna’s neighbor claiming that he was armed with a gun → Read More
Unarmed 73-year-old man killed by police in Bakersfield, California
Family of Francisco Serna say he was suffering from dementia and was shot nine times, in same county found to have highest per capita rate of killings by police → Read More