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A wave of police killings of young black men in 2014 prompted 24 states to quickly pass some type of law enforcement reform, but many declined to address the most glaring issue: police use of force

Tropical Storm Cristobal formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, bringing some flooding to Mexico’s southern Gulf coast and threatening more deadly inundations farther inland.

The invitation list for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s taxpayer-funded “Madison Dinners,” now under scrutiny by two congressional committees, included dozens of donors to Republican candidates and causes, campaign finance records show.

Asian shares are rising after Wall Street extended its gains for a third straight day, driven by optimism over economies reopening from shutdowns to stem the coronavirus pandemic

A former technology executive has pleaded guilty to paying $300,000 to bribe his son’s way into Georgetown University as a tennis recruit — even though the son didn’t play tennis.

Police in the San Francisco Bay Area arrested a man on suspicion of murdering and cannibalizing his own grandmother.

Rep. Eliot Engel, a New York Democrat facing a tough primary challenge and questions about his absence from his district, was caught on a hot mic at a district event responding to unrest saying twice that he only wanted press coverage because of an electoral threat.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians are watching what’s unfolding in the United States with “horror and consternation” and he paused for 21 seconds when asked about U.S. President Donald Trump and the use of tear gas against protesters to clear the way for a photo opportunity

A handful of GOP senators are criticizing President Donald Trump over his visit to a church after police removed peaceful demonstrators from a park near the White House

The Senate has confirmed a new inspector general to oversee money distributed as part of the $2 trillion economic rescue law

For a fifth night, scores of people took to the streets of D.C. to call for change. Peaceful protests continued well past the curfew that went into effect at 7 p.m. The crowd started thinning out after 8 p.m., although a core group of several hundred remained at the fence at Lafayette Square for hours, chanting at the line...

The global race for a COVID-19 vaccine boils down to some critical questions about how much to rev up people’s immune systems — and whether revving it the wrong way could cause harm

Louisville police say video shows that a popular barbecue shack operator fatally shot while police and National Guard soldiers were enforcing a curfew fired a gun as officers approached his business

As people flooded streets across America to protest the killing of George Floyd, public health experts fear the crowds, tear gas and arrests will lead to new transmissions of coronavirus

The state of Minnesota has launched a civil rights investigation against the Minneapolis Police Department in hopes of forcing widespread changes following the death of George Floyd

Six Atlanta police officers have been charged after a dramatic video showed authorities pulling two young people from a car and shooting them with stun guns during protests over the death of George Floyd

Several people have been killed during protests seeking justice for George Floyd, a black man died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into his neck

Former Vice President Joe Biden delivered a speech in Center City Philadelphia Tuesday as voters head to polls for the state’s presidential primary amid civil unrest.

A tropical depression that formed Monday in the Gulf of Mexico is forecast to become a tropical storm in the coming hours, with heavy rains already causing deadly flash flooding in parts of southern Mexico and Central America.

Asian shares are rising after Wall Street extended its gains for the third straight day, driven by optimism over economies reopening from shutdowns to stem the coronavirus pandemic

Tear gas choked Paris streets as riot police faced off with protesters setting fires amid growing global outrage over George Floyd’s death in the United States

Parisians returned to the City of Light’s beloved sidewalk cafes as the French government eased lockdown restrictions Tuesday, but across the ocean, health experts expressed deep concerns as several Latin American countries opted to reopen their economies despite a rapid rise in coronavirus cases.

Two brothers, ages 6 and 7, were killed in Missouri on Friday when the car the 7-year-old was driving crashed and caught fire, NBC News reports.

Joe Biden is on the cusp of formally securing the Democratic presidential nomination after winning hundreds more delegates in primary contests that tested the nation’s ability to run elections while balancing a pandemic and sweeping social unrest

Nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis last week, stretched into the early hours of Tuesday after a week of both peaceful protests and violent looting and rioting.

It began with Attorney General Bill Barr standing with his hands casually in his pockets, surveying the scene at Lafayette Park across from the White House, where several thousand protesters had gathered for another night of demonstrations after the police killing of George Floyd

Twitter placed a notice on a tweet from Rep. Matt Gaetz after the Florida Republican tweeted about hunting “antifa” on Monday, but the social media platform did not take down the statement.

Former boxing champion Floyd Mayweather has offered to pay for George Floyd’s funeral and memorial services, and the family has accepted the offer.

President Donald Trump has made false statements and implications about how three Democratic officials responded to violent protests that followed George Floyd’s death in police custody in Minneapolis.

A federal judge is defending his decision not to quickly approve the Justice Department’s request to dismiss its own criminal case against former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn.

The Navy Seal who was accused of multiple war crimes including the murder of a wounded Iraqi fighter is suing the Navy and a New York Times reporter for working together to “falsely guide the public narrative” and “taint the jury pool.”

President Donald Trump is making claims on space that are off course from reality.

On Friday, as protests against police brutality roiled the nation, members of the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund noticed a request on Twitter asking that people donate to the nonprofit as a way to support the demonstrations.

Health experts are concerned that protests erupting across the nation and the law enforcement response to them will upend efforts to track and contain the spread of coronavirus just as those efforts were finally getting underway

The family of George Floyd says an independent autopsy has found that he died of asphyxiation from sustained pressure on his back and neck

An elaborate and updated version of a classic check scam has found renewed life on freelancing platforms.

A California biotech company says its experimental drug remdesivir improved symptoms when given for five days to moderately ill, hospitalized patients with COVID-19

The Supreme Court says the oversight board established by Congress to help Puerto Rico out of a devastating financial crisis can continue its work

Amid racial unrest across the nation, President Donald Trump on Monday declared himself “the president of law and order” and threatened to deploy the United States military to American cities to quell a rise of violent protests

Police and protesters clashed in cities around the United States Saturday night, but there were also peaceful protests being held to honor the memory of George Floyd and to call out racism and police brutality.

Billions has been spent on state-of-the-art sports facilities over the last quarter-century

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is being accused of hypocrisy and insincerity in his response to the death of George Floyd and the protests that followed across the country, according to NBC News.

As protests grip the nation, officers have doused crowds with pepper spray, struck protesters with batons, steered police cars into throngs and shoved demonstrators

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Monday after shaking off a wobbly start

After six straight days of unrest, America heads into a new work week with neighborhoods in shambles, urban streets on lockdown and political leaders struggling to control the coast-to-coast outpouring of rage over police killings of black people

Amid nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd, Martin Luther King III, son of the famed civil rights activist, is speaking out about what his father would make of today’s racial tensions.

Thousands of people marching on a closed Minneapolis freeway on Sunday over the death of George Floyd ducked for their lives when a semitrailer rolled into their midst

At least a quarter of the coronavirus deaths in the United States were among nursing home residents, a new report said, a disclosure that came as restrictions eased Monday from Asia to Europe to the United States even as U.S. protests against police brutality sparked fears of new outbreaks.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says the state’s attorney general will take the lead in any prosecutions in the death of George Floyd.

President Donald Trump spent time in a White House bunker during Friday night’s protests outside the executive mansion

Former Vice President Joe Biden left his home and made a visit Sunday to the site of George Floyd protests in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, the previous night.

What was intended to be a show of solidarity with those supporting the Black Lives Matters movement instead led to a flood of complaints Tuesday as what was planned as a “day of silence” for workers in the music industry to raise awareness surrounding the George Floyd protests proved to be a liability.

The Santa Cruz Police Department shared photos on social media platforms Saturday that brought emotions to residents across and outside California’s Bay Area.

During Sunday’s protest at City Hall, video captured two protesters who called for people to “take it further.” In a tense exchange, other protesters responded by saying “this is not your protest” and “you’re not from Philly.”

In the past 48 hours of protests surrounding the death of George Floyd, journalists covering the story have become targets for protesters and police in cities across the country.

Yosemite National Park has been closed to the public for nearly three months and a few dozen lucky kids have had it mostly to themselves.

Democratic and Republican officials on Sunday took aim at groups like Antifa and Boogaloo as well as demonstrators from out of town as responsible for violent episodes at protests in major cities across the country.

Notre Dame Cathedral’s forecourt is being opened up to the public for the first time since the devastating fire of April 15 last year.

The coronavirus pandemic has created a staggering child care crisis that threatens to undermine the tentative reopening of the U.S. economy, forcing many parents to choose between work and looking after their kids

SpaceX has delivered two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station

Three people have been arrested by the FBI and have been charged federally with trying to set off Molotov cocktails against the NYPD on Friday night.

Nations around the world have watched in horror at the civil unrest in the United States following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer pressed his knee on his neck until he stopped breathing

Officials across the U.S. South are scrambling to adjust their hurricane plans around the coronavirus pandemic

Tens of thousands of protesters have again taken to the streets across America.

Government leaders in the U.S. are warning that the massive protests following the death of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis could fuel a new surge in coronavirus cases

Although every state is looking for ways to reopen and restart the economy, the U.S. leads the world in both coronavirus cases and fatalities, with over 1.7 million cases and over 104,000 deaths, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.

Authorities say a transgender black man was fatally shot by an officer in Florida after fatally stabbing another man and pointing a gun at the officer