She defeats Antone Melton-Meaux, an attorney and mediator who raised millions in anti-Omar money.
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Seattle police chief resigns over budget cuts
Carmen Best, the city’s first Black chief, says she didn’t want to lay off young officers, many of them minorities.
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Protests in Belarus continue despite challenger’s departure
Top opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya left for Lithuania after dismissing Sunday’s results that showed the Presidetn Alexander Lukashenko winning a sixth term.
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Top CEOs pledge to hire 100,000 low-income and minority New Yorkers
Companies include Amazon, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and NBCUniversal.
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Parents of Elijah McClain sue Colorado police over his death
The lawsuit alleges McClain was unlawfully stopped and three of the officers simultaneously placed their body weight on the 23-year-old after a chokehold.
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Oregon protesters set fire to police union headquarters as tensions increase
Portland police declare a riot and chase demonstrators down business-lined streets and through a park for hours.
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Nagasaki urges nuclear weapons ban on 75th anniversary of U.S. A-bombing
The bombing happened three days after the U.S. dropped its first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
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World donors pledge aid for Beirut, but demand reforms first
Two ministers have resigned in the aftermath of Tuesday’s explosion.
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Experts: Obstacles to charging police in Breonna Taylor case
Kentucky’s attorney general must determine if there was probable cause to believe there was unreasonable use of force.
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In reversal, Trump encourages mail voting in key battleground Florida
The president tweets that the system is safe despite having earlier said the election should be delayed because mail voting may encourage fraud.