Political Movements
NEW YORK - A patron at the Stonewall Inn, a powerful symbol of the gay rights movement since protests over a 1969 police raid there, was tackled to the floor and beaten in an anti-gay bias attack over the weekend, authorities said Monday.
LIMA, Peru - The Shining Path spilled rivers of blood two decades ago as it tried to impose an agrarian-based communist state on Peru, its fighters known to cut off the fingers of voters to discourage participation in elections.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - It took more than four decades for a former Alabama state trooper to be indicted on charges that he gunned down a black demonstrator - a killing that helped galvanize the civil rights movement.
SAN DIEGO - The son of former California state Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez and another man pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of a San Diego college student.
BAGHDAD - In a surprise move ahead of weekend elections, Iraq's highest judicial body has renewed an arrest warrant against an anti-U.S.
