First elected US black senator dies
Edward Brooke, the first black senator to be popularly elected in the US, dies aged 95, Republican Party officials say. BBC News – US & Canada
Edward Brooke, the first black senator to be popularly elected in the US, dies aged 95, Republican Party officials say. BBC News – US & Canada
Former Democratic Governor of New York Mario Cuomo dies just after his son Andrew is inaugurated as governor for a second term. BBC News – US & Canada
Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley has commuted the sentence of the state’s four remaining death row inmates to life in prison. BBC News – US & Canada
Police in the Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta, find the body of a man after the shooting of eight people, including two children. BBC News – US & Canada
Controversial Sony film The Interview becomes the studio’s most downloaded film ever, just four days after its release online. BBC News – US & Canada
Thousands of police officers from across America attend the funeral in New York of a fellow officer shot dead after weeks of anti-police unrest. BBC News – US & Canada