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Colin Kaepeick and San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid kneeled during the national anthem Thursday night, continuing the quarterback's preseason protest of American racial injustice and minority oppression. Kaepeick and Reid dropped to one knee while a naval officer sang "The Star-Spangled Baer" and dozens of military members unfurled an oversized flag at the Chargers' Qualcomm Stadium. Kaepeick and Reid received scattered boos when they dropped to a knee amid a crowd of teammates, but the protest was otherwise unremarked by the San Diego crowd. The 49ers' visit coincided with the aual Salute to the Military preseason game for the Chargers, who have strong fan support in their city'...

Former teammate Alex Boone isn’t taking any more hits for embattled San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepeick. The offensive guard suited up for five seasons alongside Kaepeick, blocking as defenders tried to get Kaepeick off his feet. Now, Kaepeick is voluntarily taking a seat, choosing to sit during the playing of The Star-Spangled Baer to protest perceived racial injustice. It may be a good thing that Boone, now with the Miesota Vikings, is no longer wearing the same jersey as Kaepeick. “We probably would have had a problem on the sideline,” Boone told ESPN. Boone’s brother J.J. was a Marine and served in Iraq, making Boone one of several current or former NFL players, many with mi...

Oklahoma City Thunder center Enes Kanter looks on during a game against the Utah Jazz. (AP) Turkish politics spilled onto the basketball court Monday when an Oklahoma City Thunder player was disowned by his family in Turkey and responded by changing his last name to show devotion to a controversial U.S.-based cleric locked in a bitter feud with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Enes Kanter, a 6'11" cent...

Student protesters staged a sit-in outside the chancellor's office last December. (Student Labor Committee at UC Berkeley) The chancellor at University of Califoia Berkeley has an exit plan in case student protesters storm his office. Nicholas Dirks, the school's chancellor, installed a $9,000 escape hatch in a hallway outside his office to "provide egress" if potential student protesters descend on the administratio...

A Vietnam veteran's tirade against Pokemon GO players at a veterans park in Miesota was caught on video, leading to a citation -- but also leading officials Monday to consider baing games from the park entirely. Waing: Video contains profanity. [embedded content] Bruce Reed Jr. of Winona was cited for fourth-degree criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, theWinona Daily News reported. Reed was seen telling players Veterans Memorial Park was "not a f------ campground."The video Thursday showed him knocking over a portable picnic awning that was set up not far from war monuments. At one point, he appeared to knock the camera from the hands of the person rec...

A Vietnam veteran's tirade against Pokemon GO players at a veterans park in Miesota was caught on video, leading to a citation -- but also leading officials Monday to consider baing games from the park entirely. Waing: Video contains profanity. [embedded content] Bruce Reed Jr. of Winona was cited for fourth-degree criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, theWinona Daily News reported. Reed was seen telling players Veterans Memorial Park was "not a f------ campground."The video Thursday showed him knocking over a portable picnic awning that was set up not far from war monuments. At one point, he appeared to knock the camera from the hands of the person rec...

A Vietnam veteran's tirade against Pokemon GO players at a veterans park in Miesota was caught on video, leading to a citation -- but also leading officials Monday to consider baing games from the park entirely. Waing: Video contains profanity. [embedded content] Bruce Reed Jr. of Winona was cited for fourth-degree criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, theWinona Daily News reported. Reed was seen telling players Veterans Memorial Park was "not a f------ campground."The video Thursday showed him knocking over a portable picnic awning that was set up not far from war monuments. At one point, he appeared to knock the camera from the hands of the person rec...

A Vietnam veteran's tirade against Pokemon GO players at a veterans park in Miesota was caught on video, leading to a citation -- but also leading officials Monday to consider baing games from the park entirely. Waing: Video contains profanity. [embedded content] Bruce Reed Jr. of Winona was cited for fourth-degree criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, theWinona Daily News reported. Reed was seen telling players Veterans Memorial Park was "not a f------ campground."The video Thursday showed him knocking over a portable picnic awning that was set up not far from war monuments. At one point, he appeared to knock the camera from the hands of the person rec...

The IRS confirmed in a letter it is looking into claims of “pay-to-play” practices at the Clinton Foundation, after dozens of Republican lawmakers requested a review of potential “criminal conduct” at the organization founded by the family at the center of this week’s Democratic National Convention. Commissioner John Koskinen wrote in a July 22 letter to Republican Rep. Marsha Blackbu that the issue has been “forwarded” to the IRS “Exempt Organizations Examinations” program in Dallas. “This program considers all referrals and will send you a separate acknowledgement letter when it receives your information,” he wrote, in a letter first reported by The Daily Caller. It’s unclear whethe...

Urban Outfitters (URBN) has a line of politically-branded merchandise that enables customers to show off their political views. Unless the customers are pro-Trump. The line includes slogans like “IDK Not Trump Tho” and “Vote Trump 20NEVER.” It also includes pro-Hillary Clinton and pro-Beie Sanders merchandise, and a book titled “Quotations From Chairman Trump,” which is touted on the website as being “Unfiltered. Unabridged. Unauthorized. Unbelievable.” The clothier says they’re not taking sides, they’re just having fun. “These t-shirts are novelty items, not a political statement on the part of URBN,” a rep for Urban Outfitters said in a statement. “We stock thousands of novelty produ...

MINNEAPOLIS – In the wake of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, where authorities were criticized for what some called heavy-handed tactics against demonstrators, many departments took a more restrained approach. Now, after the shooting deaths of five officers at a Dallas protest decrying last week's police killings of two more black men, some experts are suggesting it's possible the pendulum could swing from hugs back to flash-bang grenades and mass arrests. After days of peaceful protests in St. Paul, officers in riot gear met protesters who blocked Interstate 94 late Saturday in the biggest confrontation between police and demonstrators since an officer fatally shot a black man during ...

MINNEAPOLIS – In the wake of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, where authorities were criticized for what some called heavy-handed tactics against demonstrators, many departments took a more restrained approach. Now, after the shooting deaths of five officers at a Dallas protest decrying last week's police killings of two more black men, some experts are suggesting it's possible the pendulum could swing from hugs back to flash-bang grenades and mass arrests. After days of peaceful protests in St. Paul, officers in riot gear met protesters who blocked Interstate 94 late Saturday in the biggest confrontation between police and demonstrators since an officer fatally shot a black man during ...

July 8, 2016: Pokemon Go is displayed on a cell phone in Los Angeles. (AP) A Wyoming teen playing “Pokemon Go” discovered a body in a river Friday moing. According to the Riverton Ranger, the man was found in the Wind River near Riverton at around 8:40 a.m. No foul play is suspected. Shayla Wiggens, 19, discovered the body under a bridge on highway 789 while playing “Pokemon Go.” The new mobile app uses GPS to direct players to real-world locations to capture Pokemon or obtain items. Wiggens was in the B&K Trailer Park where she lives with her mother when the game directed her to the bridge where it said there were resources. She told the paper she was scouting the area to make sure ...

July 8, 2016: Pokemon Go is displayed on a cell phone in Los Angeles. (AP) A Wyoming teen playing “Pokemon Go” discovered a body in a river Friday moing. According to the Riverton Ranger, the man was found in the Wind River near Riverton at around 8:40 a.m. No foul play is suspected. Shayla Wiggens, 19, discovered the body under a bridge on highway 789 while playing “Pokemon Go.” The new mobile app uses GPS to direct players to real-world locations to capture Pokemon or obtain items. Wiggens was in the B&K Trailer Park where she lives with her mother when the game directed her to the bridge where it said there were resources. She told the paper she was scouting the area to make sure ...

Actor and "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, center, takes his final performance curtain call at the Richard Rogers Theatre on Saturday, July 9, 2016, in New York. (AP) NEW YORK – Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the Broadway smash "Hamilton," made a subdued final bow Saturday alongside two other departing stars in the show that has become a cultural phenomenon. The performance Saturday at the Richard Rodgers Theatre was also the last for Leslie Odom Jr., who won a Tony Award as Aaron Burr, and Phillipa Soo, a Tony nominee who portrayed Eliza Schuyler. The three — plus an ensemble member — took their bows together but none said anything. Miranda made a solo bow, with his h...

Vote Leave supporters walk along a street in central London, Friday, June 24, 2016. People (I will politely call them that, when referring to celebrities and media on Twitter) are acting like the Brexit vote is the end of humanity. It’s an online spectacle, this manic hissy fit orchestrated by A, B and C listers who seemingly have ignored the scandalous depravity unfolding in Venezuela, the horrors of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the murderous homophobia of ISIS and assorted other Islamist terror outfits, the barrel bombing of Syrians (which helped foster the Brexit vote). Yes, the Chicken Littles’ pleading for a re-vote are the same ones who CAUSED the vote, through selective outrage, sh...

Vote Leave supporters walk along a street in central London, Friday, June 24, 2016. People (I will politely call them that, when referring to celebrities and media on Twitter) are acting like the Brexit vote is the end of humanity. It’s an online spectacle, this manic hissy fit orchestrated by A, B and C listers who seemingly have ignored the scandalous depravity unfolding in Venezuela, the horrors of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the murderous homophobia of ISIS and assorted other Islamist terror outfits, the barrel bombing of Syrians (which helped foster the Brexit vote). Yes, the Chicken Littles’ pleading for a re-vote are the same ones who CAUSED the vote, through selective outrage, sh...

Dec. 7, 2011: House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., second from right, accompanied by fellow committee members, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP) If House Speaker Paul Ryan was British, he might have been celebrating on June 23. The Republican leader implied Monday that he would have supported the campaign to leave the European Union because their argument for leaving embodied American values. “I can’t say I’m surprised because people want self-govement, they want sovereignty, they want self-determination, and I can’t say that I would feel differently if I were a citizen of Great Britain when you have people from other countries regu...

LONDON – Britain's shocking decision to remove itself from the European Union brought more political turmoil Sunday as Scotland's leader threatened to block the move and the opposition Labor Party's leader faced a coup attempt from his own legislators. The sense of unease spread as European leaders stepped up the pressure on Britain to begin its complex exit from the 28-nation EU immediately, rather than wait several months as British Prime Minister David Cameron prefers. The vote to leave sent the pound and global stock markets plunging. Britain's Treasury said finance minister George Osboe would make an early moing statement Monday "to provide reassurance about financial and economic...

The July 4 holiday is a divisive time for one New Jersey community. But not for any political reasons; instead, the neighbors living in the Beechcrest section of Florham Park have been arguing about decorations. “That’s for sure – decoration drama definitely,” Aneta Mascaro told CBS Local. Beechcrest’s mulch-filled welcome island used to be adoed with flags and signs to celebrate holidays – Halloween, Easter, Hanukkah, Christmas. A Memorial Day display featured American flags and signs for each branch of the service. But some neighbors complained about the look, and now there may be no display for Independence Day. Borough leaders are set to discuss the issue at their next meeting. “It...