SAN FRANCISCO -- The U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division will investigate a white former transit officer who was convicted in state court of killing an unarmed black man - a verdict that touched off angry protests and more than 80 arrests in Oakland.
In a move reminiscent of the Rodney King beating case in Los Angeles, the federal government said it intends to investigate Johannes Mehserle, who was found guilty Thursday in state court of involuntary manslaughter in the death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft may finally take its first crewed flight next
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Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule, which has been plagued by years of setbacks
and cost overruns amounting to roughly $1.5 billion, is about to take its
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