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Rev. Al Sharpton speaks alongside Gwen Carr, to his left, mother of Eric Garner, Esaw Garner, Garner's wife, center right, and Emerald Garner, Garner's daughter, second from right, at the National Action Network headquarters in New York.(Photo: John Minchillo, AP)
Al Sharpton leads D.C. march after deaths of Brown, Garner
Protesters from as far away as Florida are catching buses to the nation's capital to march Saturday for an end to racial profiling and police discrimination. The demonstration is just the latest in a series of protests that have rocked the USA after two white police officers were not indicted in separate cases involving the deaths of two unarmed black men — Eric Garner in New York City and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. Families of those two men, as well as three others recently killed by police, will join Al Sharpton's Justice for All March. The parents of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teen killed in 2012 by a neighborhood watchman, are also set to participate.
Protesters who have brought cities across the nation to a standstill will descend on the nation's capital Saturday in hope of igniting federal action to bar racial profiling by police. Natalie DiBlasio
It's a bird, it's a plane! Nah, it's a meteor shower
It'll be quite the show this weekend as the Geminid meteor shower lights up the skies. Peaking between 9 p.m. Saturday and the early morning hours Sunday, the Geminids are named for the constellation Gemini, the point from which the meteors seem to radiate. What will the view be like? "...it's more like decent," scientist Heather Preston.
A general view of the Geminid meteor shower in the National Park of El Teide on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife on Dec. 13.(Photo: Desiree Martin, AFP/Getty Images)
College football's finest receives Heisman Trophy
It's narrowed down to three. Oregon's Marcus Mariota, Wisconsin's Melvin Gordon and Alabama's Amari Cooper are the finalists for the Heisman, which will be awarded Saturday. Experts predict Mariota will do Oregon proud and take home college football's most prestigious individual award.
(Photo: The Associated Press)
Newtown remembers the Sandy Hook shooting
Two years later, the pain — and the wrenching anxiety — linger. On Dec. 14, 2012, heavily armed Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and opened fire. Twenty young children lay dead, along with six adults, before Lanza killed himself. In Newtown's tragic wake, the terms "lockdown" and "lockout" have become cemented in the education vernacular.
White roses with the faces of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are attached to a telephone pole on the one-month anniversary of the shooting that left 26 dead in Newtown, Conn.(Photo: Jessica Hill, AP)
Missed what's fascinating? Barbara Walters is ready to tell us
A year just doesn't end until famed journalist Barbara Walters names the 10 people she found most fascinating in 2014. In a special airing Sunday night at 9 p.m. ET, Walters sits down with Taylor Swift, comedienne Chelsea Handler and Oprah Winfrey, among others. Her most fascinating person? We'll have to tune in to find out.
Barbara Walters embraces Oprah Winfrey during a taping of Walters' final appearance as co-host of "The View," May 15 in New York.(Photo: Ida Mae Astute, AP)
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Correction: Amari Cooper's college was incorrectly listed. It has since been fixed.
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