Last October, a group of law students walked into the Manhattan office of Paul, Weiss, a large law firm, with a simple demand—that it drop ExxonMobil, one of the world’s largest emitters of carbon, as a client. Organizers of ...

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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Two officers were shot in front of the Ferguson Police Department early Thursday while demonstrators were gathered across the street — an attack the county police chief described as “an ambush” that could easily have killed ...

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Protesters angered by the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by police faced off with officers in south St. Louis for a second night as accusations of racial profiling prompted calls for a federal investigation ahead ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) — Duke Energy’s chief executive on Thursday touted the company’s accomplishments over the past year, but some shareholders focused on a massive coal ash spill that coated 70-miles of a North Carolina River in toxic sludge. Outside Duke’s ...

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Durham's police chief is defending his agency's use of riot gear and tear gas to disperse a march protesting the recent death of a handcuffed teen in the back of a patrol car.

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A judge has dismissed one of the three charges against North Carolina NAACP President William Barber and 11 others facing trial for protesting at the state legislature.

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Teachers and principals in New Hanover County schools are being told they cannot wear "Red for Ed" t-shirts as a protest against actions earlier this year by the North Carolina General Assembly.

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Dozens of environmental activists blocked a chemical plant July 8 to protest against the company's sale of products used in the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

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The North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced May 3 that it's planning another round of protests at the General Assembly following the arrest of 17 activists.

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If my walk up and down Tryon Street is any indication, the campaigns may run into trouble if they think they can swing entire houses of worship on a single issue.

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