Nearly eight years before Dahir Adan was shot dead by an off-duty police officer and accused of stabbing 10 people at a mall, the police stormed into his family’s apartment here to break up a fight between two of his brothers. “We could hear a lot of screaming and yelling and all in a Somali language,” a St.

President Obama, reacting with the same horror as many Americans to a grisly video of a bloody, dying man in Minnesota who was shot by the police, begged the nation to confront the racial disparities in law enforcement while acknowledging the dangers that officers face. “When incidents like this occur, there’s a big chunk of our citizenry that feels as if, because of the color of their skin, they are not being treated the same, and that hurts, and that should trouble all of us,” Mr.

Making toast is pretty easy. Getting 700 watts to the toaster from a coal plant, a nuclear reactor, a distant wind farm or the photovoltaic array on the roof—that’s trickier. The task requires a wide variety of engineering talent and sometimes even bat biologists and archeologists who take into account environmental and cultural impacts of building infrastructure.

The day after his oldest son was convicted of conspiring to join and kill for the Islamic State in Syria, Abdihamid Yusuf just wanted to go home and rest. But bills were stacking up, so on Saturday morning he and his wife visited the jail and then reopened Hooyo’s Kitchen, the small Somali restaurant where they serve plates of chicken, rice and bananas.

Three Somali-American friends were found guilty on Friday of federal charges that they tried to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State, a plan that prosecutors said unfolded through propaganda videos and social media exchanges, and while they played basketball and paintball. On Friday, the three defendants — who had all pleaded not guilty — sat impassively in dark suits as a court clerk began to read a litany of “guilty” verdicts, the most serious being conspiracy to commit murder overseas.

Most crucially, the evidence suggested that Jamar Clark, 24, “was not, in fact, handcuffed when he was shot,” despite claims by eyewitnesses that he had been, Andrew M. Luger, the United States attorney for Minnesota, said at a news conference. And he pointed to evidence that could support the officers’ claim that Mr.

Prince Rogers Nelson had an unflinching reputation among those close to him for leading an assiduously clean lifestyle. He ate vegan and preferred to avoid the presence of meat entirely. He was known to eschew alcohol and marijuana, and no one who went on tour with him could indulge either. But Prince appears to have shielded from even some of his closest friends that he had a problem with pain pills, one that grew so acute that his friends sought urgent medical help from Dr.

For more than 30 minutes on Wednesday, the prosecutor described in exacting detail the fatal shooting in November of an unarmed black man by the police and his reasons for not charging the two officers involved. The prosecutor, Mike Freeman, said the unarmed man, Jamar Clark, 24, had assaulted his girlfriend, interfered with paramedics and resisted when the officers tried to arrest him.

Ketchum firefighter Tory Canfield had to chuckle when she stepped off the plane at Logan International Airport in Boston for the Head of the Charles Regatta this fall. The first billboard she saw showed people fat biking on a beach in New England. “It’s not just a winter sport,” said Canfield, who was headed to join her crew to compete in the Women’s Alumni Eights.

How Congressman Mike Simpson forged unanimous consent for House Bill 1138, to designate as wilderness 275,665 acres in that part of Idaho known as the Boulder-White Clouds, is the stuff of a compelling Netflix “House of Cards” episode. A Republican with plenty of anti-wilderness colleagues, Simpson’s achievement harkens to the 1960s, younger years he spent on horseback in the Sawtooth and Teton Mountains when wilderness policy was in its infancy.

A white man accused of shooting five Black Lives Matter protesters in Minneapolis apparently had racist views and identified with the antigovernment “sovereign citizen” movement, according to criminal complaints filed Monday charging him in the shooting. Three others were charged with related crimes.

The police on Wednesday released the names of four men arrested in connection with a shooting during a Black Lives Matter protest outside a police station that injured five protesters. The shooting erupted on Monday, during the ninth day of protests demanding action against two white Minneapolis police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Jamar Clark, 24, an unarmed black man, on Nov. 15.

In a cottonwood clearing just off Broadford Road, woodworker Randy “Rando” Edgar lives in an octagon-shaped building with his wife Maggie Shaughnessy. There he dreams up ways to integrate the magic of the woods with all its twists and curves into the right angles of any home or business. Jon Nasvik, 64, has been working with concrete since he was 14 when the St. Paul, Minn., native worked as a part-time grunt for a tough and terrible German builder who’d been in the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth).

KETCHUM, Idaho — In 2003, the year he turned 17, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl left his mark on the wet cement floor of the Strega Tea Bar Gallery and Cafe, a swirling design signed with a florid “B.”. The drawing is a lasting statement that this liberal-tinctured ski resort town, where he took ballet and fencing lessons, met artists and debated philosophy, had become his second home.

HAILEY, Idaho — From the time of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s capture five years ago, Zaney’s River Street Coffee House has been ground zero for information about and support for the soldier and his family. It is where people went to share high fives and giddy hugs on Saturday when news came of his unexpected release.

WASHINGTON — For Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the road home to Idaho began with a brief helicopter ride from the rugged frontier of eastern Afghanistan to Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul. His return to anything close to a normal life will take much longer. After nearly five years in captivity — the lone American prisoner of war in Afghanistan, held by Taliban fighters in utter isolation and deprivation — Sergeant Bergdahl is physically weakened, military officials said, and will need to undergo a thorough psychological examination.