Michael Brown

In a once in 20 years occurrence, Jupiter and Saturn will appear very close together in the night sky on Dec. 21.

The two gas giants will actually be hundreds of millions of miles apart but will appear exceptionally close, just a tenth of a degree apart or one-fifth of a full moon's diameter, according to Live Science.

George Floyd was fondly remembered on June 9 as "Big Floyd" — a father and brother, athlete and neighborhood mentor, and now a catalyst for change — at a funeral for the black man whose death has sparked a global reckoning over police brutality and racial prejudice.

NASA now says there is growing evidence for the existence of the mysterious Planet Nine, also known as Planet X and often associated with the doomsday planet Nibiru.
Planet Nine seems to be out there, lurking invisible in the darkest outskirts of the solar system, according to a recent press release by NASA.

A jury on Feb. 11 found a rookie New York police officer guilty of manslaughter in the 2014 fatal shooting of an unarmed black man -- an incident that fueled US protests against police tactics.

Hacktivist collective Anonymous have threatened to release the names of around 1,000 Ku Klux Klan members as part of an operation against the white supremacist group in the US. The names, obtained from a Klan twitter account, will be released as part of Anonymous group’s anti-Klan Operation KKK.

President Barack Obama vowed on Aug. 31 to push for police officer safety after a Texas sheriff's deputy was gunned down from behind and shot multiple times at close range.

The return of an armed militia group patrolling the streets of Ferguson drew criticism on August 11 from both protesters and the county police chief overseeing security amid ongoing demonstrations marking the anniversary of 18-year-old Michael Brown's shooting death.

Police in riot gear contained around 200 protestors who poured out on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to mark the anniversary of the police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed teen whose death ignited racial tension.

Police in riot gear contained roughly 200 protesters who had gathered in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri on August 10 to mark the anniversary of the police shooting of an unarmed black teen whose death ignited a national firestorm on race relations.

A day of peaceful remembrance marking the anniversary of a black teen's killing by police in the US city of Ferguson came to a violent end August 9 as gunfire left at least one protester injured.