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Baton Rouge police officers allegedly saw the butt of a gun in Alton Sterling's pocket and have said they saw Sterling try to reach for the gun during the altercation that led to his shooting death last week, according to an affidavit for a search warrant filed in the case. Blane Salamoni, a four-year veteran, and Howie Lake II, a three-year veteran, both white men, were placed on paid administrative leave after their involvement in the fatal shooting of Sterling, a black man, last Tuesday outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Parts of the shooting were captured on cellphone videos. According to the affidavit for a search warrant for a video recorder at the convenience store,

How do you ruin a great speech? President Obama gave us a master class in doing just that Tuesday at the memorial service to the five Dallas police officers gunned down last week. For 15 minutes, the president’s speech was - and this is a word I use advisedly - magnificent. It was elevated and powerful and profoundly moving. And it was unifying, genuinely unifying, in the way the president made clear our commonalities with the police officers whose lives were ended - and our differences, in the sense that they engaged in personally perilous work dedicated to making the rest of us safe that most of us would never dream of attempting. Most important, he defended the United States against the assertion

An eagle tried to snatch a little boy during a recent birds show at Alice Springs Desert Park in Australia's Northern Territory, according to a witness who took a photo of the attack. The wedge-tailed eagle flew straight at the child, who was wearing a green hoodie and "kept running his zipper up and down," Christine O'Connell, the witness who took the photo, told BBC News.

When Tim Duncan retired, he had one year and $6,393,750 remaining on his contract. What will become of that money? Here’s a major clue: Marc Stein of ESPN: The Spurs didn’t have to pay Duncan. Teams aren’t obligated to pay players who stop showing up for work, and Duncan was clearly done working. But with him waived - assuming he clears waivers - San Antonio is on the hook for the guaranteed portion of his salary. That was the full $6,393,750, though it’s possible the team and Duncan agreed to reduce his protected salary (a buyout). The Spurs can either pay Duncan’s protected salary all this season or stretch the payments and pay a third each of the following three years. Presumably, this was

Colorado pot businesses are increasingly coming under scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service due to the industry's focus on cash, according to a report Tuesday from Marijuana Business Daily. Marijuana businesses such as dispensaries are known to deal predominantly in cash due to continued U.S. banking restrictions that make it difficult for them to have bank accounts with federally chartered financial institutions.

The trauma surgeon who treated seven injured Dallas police officers gave an emotional interview today about how his experiences as a black man have complicated the emotional impact of the shooting that killed five police officers. Dr. Brian Williams, a trauma surgeon in Parkland Medical Center, talked about how he supports law enforcement despite the fact he has feared for his safety while interacting with police officers in the past. "Talking about the emotional impact -- it’s much more complicated for me personally," Williams said. "It’s not just about the one night, it’s about the racial undertones that affect, impact all of this. It began for me much longer than those cops who came through