Tear Gas And Arrests: Ferguson Police And Protesters Face Off Plus 4 More Stories

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Daily Briefing A look at the day's top stories News Tear Gas And Arrests: Ferguson Police And Protesters Face Off Police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson used helicopters and armored vehicles to try to control an area torn by racial tension and outrage over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. Read this story Who Gets First Dibs On Transplanted Liver? Rules May Change Location, location, location too often trumps medical need, some doctors say. But another solution to making the distribution of scarce organs fairer worries some transplant surgeons and patients. Read this story Young Migrants May Request Asylum, But It's Hard To Get Amid the emotional debate over the surge in unaccompanied minors from Central America, some migrants will be given refugee status while others can try for asylum. Read this story In Tense Ferguson, Mo., 2 Reporters Caught In Arrests When SWAT officers swept through a McDonald's restaurant, they arrested not just locals, but journalists working for The Washington Post and The Huffington Post, The Associated Press reports. Read this story Reporter's Notebook: A Not-So-Grand Tour Of Ethiopia's Top Hospital The reporter asks the nurse what the hospital needs. The nurse says, "If you don't help me, why do you ask me?" Welcome to Black Lion, said to be the country's best hospital. Read this story more news stories

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