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Protesters return to the streets as Trump decries ‘lowlifes’Video
WASHINGTON — Undeterred by curfews, protesters streamed back into the nation’s streets Tuesday, hours after President Donald Trump pressed governors to put down the violence set off by George Floyd’s death and demanded that New York call up the National Guard to stop the “lowlifes and losers.” As more demonstrations...
4 St. Louis officers shot, ex-captain killed during protestsVideo
ST. LOUIS — Protests that began peacefully over the death of George Floyd turned violent in the St. Louis area, where four police officers were shot and wounded and a retired St. Louis police captain was killed by looters at a pawn shop, actions that the governor blamed on “criminals”...
Officer accused of killing George Floyd was disciplined for pulling woman from car during stop
WASHINGTON — The Minneapolis Police Department on Tuesday released personnel records for Derek Chauvin, the now-fired officer accused of killing George Floyd, a black man whose death has sparked protest nationwide. The records provide some insight into Chauvin’s background, starting as a military police officer with the U.S. Army from...
White supremacist group posing as Antifa called for violence online, Twitter saysVideo
A white supremacist group created a fake Twitter account, posed as the leftist Antifa movement and called for violence during the ongoing protests sweeping the nation, the social media giant said Monday. “Tonight’s the night comrades,” the group tweeted on Sunday. “Tonight we say ‘f—- the city’ and we move...
Police chief: More than 2,700 arrests in Los Angeles so far
LOS ANGELES — More than 2,700 people have been arrested since protests and violence began in Los Angeles in response to the death of George Floyd. Chief Michel Moore told the city Police Commission on Tuesday that about 2,500 of those arrests were for failure to disperse or curfew violations....
Police: Video shows man killed in Louisville fired a gun
LOUISVILLE — Video released by police shows a popular barbecue stand operator firing a gun as officers approached his business in Louisville shortly before he was shot to death, the city’s acting police chief said Tuesday. The video showing David McAtee opening fire early Monday was obtained from security cameras...
President Trump ordered show of force on Monday nightVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday night ordered military aircraft to fly above the nation’s capital as a “show of force” against demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd, according to two Defense Department officials. Show-of-force missions are designed to intimidate and, in combat zones, warn opposing forces of...
Virginia county pulls officers from D.C. as a result of Trump photo-opVideo
ARLINGTON, Va. — Arlington County, Va., pulled its officers out of the District of Columbia on Monday night after they played a supporting role in clearing protesters from a park outside the White House so the president could walk to a church for a photo opportunity. The County Board issued...
Agency puts Florida police officer on leave as videos reportedly show him kneeling on man’s neck
ORLANDO —A Florida police force has started an internal investigation after it was tagged in a social media post showing an arrest in which an officer is reportedly seen kneeling on the head and neck of the man being arrested. The arrest came on May 18, by the Sarasota Police...
Minnesota files civil rights charge against police in George Floyd’s death
MINNEAPOLIS — The state of Minnesota filed a human rights complaint Tuesday against the Minneapolis Police Department in the death of George Floyd who died after an officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for minutes, even after he stopped moving. Gov. Tim Walz and the Minnesota Department of Human...
Concerns mount about 2 studies on drugs for coronavirus
Concerns are mounting about studies in two influential medical journals on drugs used in people with coronavirus, including one that led multiple countries to stop testing a malaria pill. The New England Journal of Medicine issued an “expression of concern” Tuesday on a study it published May 1 that suggested...
China delayed releasing coronavirus info, frustrating WHO
Throughout January, the World Health Organization (WHO) publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus and thanked the Chinese government for sharing the genetic map of the virus “immediately.” But in fact, Chinese officials sat on releasing the genetic map, or genome, of the...
Man gets 10-month sentence for threatening Muslim politician
A North Carolina man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 months in prison for anonymously threatening on social media to lynch a Muslim-American man who ran for a state Senate seat in Virginia, according to prosecutors. Joseph Cecil Vandevere, 53, of Black Mountain, had faced a maximum sentence of 5 years...
Trump’s actions render Trudeau speechless for 21 secondsVideo
TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that 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...
Social media, music world go dark for Black Out Tuesday
Though Black Out Tuesday was originally organized by the music community, the social media world also went dark in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, joining voices around the world outraged by the killings of black people in the U.S. Instagram and Twitter accounts, from top record label to...
6 Atlanta officers charged after students pulled from carVideo
ATLANTA — Six Atlanta police officers have been charged after a dramatic video showed authorities pulling two young people from a car during protests over the death of George Floyd, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced the charges during a news conference. “I feel a...
Confederate monuments targeted by protests come down
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The base of a massive Confederate monument in Alabama’s largest city was all that remained Tuesday after crews dismantled the towering obelisk and trucked it away in pieces. Other symbols came down elsewhere, leaving an empty pedestal and a bare flagpole. Workers hired by the city of...
Kenyans protest as police accused of killing homeless man
NAIROBI, Kenya — Residents of a slum in Kenya’s capital have protested the death of a homeless man who they said was killed by police for violating a dusk-to-dawn curfew for the coronavirus. Hundreds of people in Mathare left their homes and burnt tires on the streets Monday night in...
Austria to redesign Hitler’s birthplace as police station
VIENNA — Austrian authorities have presented the winning plan to redesign the house where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889, turning it into a police station and trying to make it unattractive as a pilgrimage site for people who glorify the Nazi dictator. A design by Austrian architects Marte.Marte beat...
Ohio cities report more arrests overnight, reporters
CINCINNATI — Police in Ohio cities say dozens more people have been arrested in protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody. However, Cincinnati authorities said Monday night’s activity marked some progress from weekend nights, when hundreds of people were arrested. Cincinnati police said 40 to 50 people...
Trump as thug or hero? Depends on what network you watch
NEW YORK — It was a split screen for the ages on MSNBC Monday: on the left side, President Donald Trump talking about restoring law and order. On the right, a tear-gassed young woman vomiting in a Washington street. For a nation rubbed raw following a traumatic weekend, cable television...
Federal court gives ‘Tiger King’ properties to Carole BaskinVideo
A federal court gave control of “Tiger King” Joe “Exotic” Maldonado-Passage’s Oklahoma zoo properties over to his rival featured in the popular Netflix documentary as part of a $1 million trademark judgment. According to Court House News, Maldonado-Passage fraudulently transferred the properties to his mother, Shirley M. Schreibvogel, in 2011...
Paris cafes, restaurants partially reopen post-lockdownVideo
PARIS — Parisians who have been cooped up for months with takeout food and coffee can savor their steak tartare in the fresh air and cobbled streets of the City of Light once more — albeit in smaller numbers. The city famed for its vibrant cafe society and coffee culture...
6 elephants killed by poachers in single day in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — At least six elephants were killed in a single day by poachers in Ethiopia last week, wildlife officials said, the largest such slaughter in memory in the East African nation. “The elephants were killed while they ventured out of the Mago National Park to drink water,”...
Presidents have leeway to use military for domestic purposesVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s warning that he would deploy the United States military to any state that refuses to take aggressive action against rioting rests on a longstanding presidential power that gives wide latitude to the White House, legal experts said. But a decision to do so would be...
