President Donald Trump appears to be privately backing off his threat to deploy troops to the states in order to quell protests over police brutality
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UK study finds minorities at higher risk of COVID-19 death
A British study says people from ethnic minorities have died in larger relative numbers with COVID-19 than their white compatriots
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Confederate monuments targeted by protests come down
The base of a Confederate monument in Alabama is all that remains Tuesday morning in Birmingham’s Linn Park.
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The Latest: Protests in top 25 virus hot spots ignite fears of contagion
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — As demonstrators flooded streets across America to decry the killing of George Floyd, public health experts watched in alarm – the close proximity of protesters and their failures in many cases to wear masks, along with the police using […]
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Use of force criticized in protests about police brutality
As protests grip the nation, officers have doused crowds with pepper spray, struck protesters with batons, steered police cars into throngs and shoved demonstrators
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New York mayor eyes curfew after violence flares amid protests
De Blasio had previously rejected imposing a curfew after nights of destruction followed three days of largely peaceful protests over George Floyd’s death.
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Trump slams governors as ‘weak,’ tells them to crack down on protesters
The days of protests were triggered by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after he was pinned at the neck by a white Minneapolis police officer.
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Hong Kong blocks Tiananmen vigil; rush on for UK passports
Hong Kong police rejected an application for an annual candlelight vigil marking the anniversary this week of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, as residents rushed to apply for passports that could allow them to move to the United Kingdom
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Canada’s virus hot zone is even deadlier than Chicago or LA
Montreal’s virus toll – the city accounts for more than half of Canada’s deaths from COVID-19 – is a story of lack of preparation, early mistakes and a bit of bad luck.
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Seven shot at Louisville protest over fatal police shooting
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was shot eight times by narcotics detectives who knocked down her front door in March.