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Authorities say a driver in a pickup truck plowed into bicyclists competing in a community road race in Arizona, critically injuring several riders

Soldiers and police in Myanmar used lethal force to suppress the latest protests against last month’s coup as the military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day with a parade in the country’s capital Saturday.

“Hate and violence often hide in plain sight,” President Joe Biden said Friday. “It’s often met with silence. That’s been true throughout our history. But that has to change because our silence is complicity. We cannot be complicit.”

Testifying before a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing on anti-Asian violence on Thursday, actor Daniel Dae Kim called on Congress to take action. “What happens right now and over the course of the coming months will send a message for generations to come as to whether we matter,” he said.

President Joe Biden on Thursday denounced the “vicious hate crimes” against Asian Americans across the country. “[They’ve been] attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated,” Biden said. “It’s wrong, it’s un-American, and it must stop.”

Asian American lawmakers, along with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats, denounced on Friday a rise in hate incidents targeting members of the Asian community across the country and called for stronger action — both by Congress and the Biden administration.

While the pandemic’s long-lasting impact has affected public health and the economy, the Asian-American community has also experienced the fallout of COVID-19 – being unfairly blamed for the pandemic and becoming the target of discrimination and violence.

Killings rose dramatically across the U.S. last year, and a study suggests that the coronavirus pandemic and racial injustice unrest were factors

For months, the nationwide protests against racial injustice and COVID-19 lockdown orders have attracted all kinds of extremists using online platforms to plan, coordinate and drum up support for their activities

Some civil rights advocates are becoming worried the growing violence in some cities is undermining what could be a critical moment in the fight for racial equality. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday discussed the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

An 18-year-old man who was shot in D.C. days before he was set to go to college has died. Someone shot Richard Bangura multiple times the evening of Sunday, Aug. 9 in the 2400 block of Franklin Street NE, police said. Bangura died a week later on the same day he planned to go to Temple University in Philadelphia. His…

Richard Bangura’s family was supposed to say goodbye to him at Temple University this past weekend. Instead, they said final goodbyes as he lay in a hospital bed. News4’s Cory Smith has more on one family’s pain, as their son’s life was cut short.

Exhausted American cities are facing yet another challenge in addition to the coronavirus and the street protests over the police killing of George Floyd.

In a budget hearing late Tuesday, D.C. Councilman Charles Allen vowed to find funding to restore and continue investing in the District’s Violence Interrupter program, which is facing a major cut in the currently proposed budget. “We’re going to change that because I don’t believe that we can handle fewer violence interrupters, I think we need more – and...

Almost 100 members of the public testified before D.C. Council members Monday, most of them urging the District to shift money away from the Metropolitan Police Department. Many want the city to instead use those funds for community initiatives, including DC’s Violence Interrupter program. Jodie Fleischer and the News4 I-Team spoke with one violence interrupter about what he does.

The Justice Department is urging U.S. attorneys nationwide to use federal courts — where more serious charges are available — to prosecute people suspected of violence or property damage during the protests over George Floyd’s death....

Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that federal agents have arrested 51 people for acts of violence since the protests began. The U.S. Marshals service...

A mother and grandmother was shot to death over the weekend in Southeast D.C. while trying to protect her granddaughter during an attack, police and family members say. At 71 years old, Sheila Lucas’ children thought the coronavirus was the biggest threat to their mother’s life. But it was another of the District’s ills that took her life: gun...

A mother and grandmother was shot to death while trying to protect her granddaughter during an attack, family members say. News4’s Cory Smith reports.

Three people were killed and seven injured in numerous shootings over the weekend in D.C., police say.