BuzzFeed News have revealed video footage of Alabama police shooting an unarmed passenger during a traffic stop in 2013. The video which had not been previously released to the public shows two police officers from Alabama fatally shooting unarmed black man, Cameron Massey, while he was a passenger in a car during a traffic stop in October 2013. The attorney representing the family of the slain man, refutes police’s claims of self defense in the face of imminent danger.

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The rift between Saudi Arabia and Iran has quickly ballooned into the worst conflict in decades between the two countries.

A new bill filed this week by Virginia Delegate Mark Cole would require that schools ensure students are using restrooms that correlate to their “correct anatomical sex”. The bill defines anatomical sex as: the physical condition of being male or female, which is determined by a person’s anatomy. Under the legislation, any student who violates the bathroom rules could be fined $50 by law enforcement. As noted by Crooks and Liars, under the bills definition, the only way for anyone to determine such a thing would be to examine the student’s genitalia as they enter the restroom.

With just hours to go before Obama's last State of the Union address, the US president suffered his latest foreign policy fiasco when around noon local time, Iran arrested 10 US sailors in a boat that has allegedly entered deep into Iranian territorial waters.

Obama’s final State of the Union address touched on several of the foreign policy issues I expected him to mention, and included a couple statements that I didn’t think he would make.