California
The mayor wants ‘unambiguous criteria’ for usage after complaints about how police handled protests last year.
Aug. 28, 2021
Babylon & Beyond
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Jan. 31, 2011
World & Nation
Under a cold gray sky, U.S.
Dec. 15, 1991
The Commerce Department approved millions of dollars in high-technology exports to an Iraqi research center after a classified Pentagon report warned on Nov. 6, 1986, that the nine-acre complex north of Baghdad was secretly developing missiles and weapons of mass destruction, according to government sources familiar with the report.
Feb. 13, 1991
Troubled by images of heavily armed police facing off protesters in Ferguson, Mo., President Obama is ordering a review of federal programs that help law enforcement agencies buy military equipment.
Aug. 23, 2014
The image of Ferguson, Mo., police officers in camouflage pointing high-caliber rifles from armored vehicles at unarmed protesters has crystallized a debate over whether a decades-long flow of military-grade equipment to the nation’s police departments has gone too far.
Aug. 16, 2014
To many people here, the raft of indictments handed up last November by a U.S. grand jury against a key South African company appeared to be the end of an era.
July 4, 1992
Aug. 15, 2014
Beginning last Saturday, and then for several nights in a row, the image of Ferguson, Mo., police officers in camouflage pointing high-caliber rifles from armored vehicles at unarmed protesters was inescapable.
Opinion
Among the more jarring images to come out of the Ferguson fiasco were the photos of local police officers clad in military helmets, camouflage uniforms and other combat-style gear arrayed on the street in military formation, carrying M4 carbine assault rifles and backed up by an armored personnel carrier.
Dec. 8, 2014