Pentagon puts military police on alert to go to Minneapolis  —  DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — As unrest spread across dozens of American cities on Friday, the Pentagon took the rare step of ordering the Army to put several active-duty U.S. military police units on the ready to deploy to Minneapolis …

Partygoer at Lake of the Ozarks pool party tests positive for COVID-19, potentially exposing hundreds  —  CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — A positive COVID-19 case has been confirmed in a Boone County resident who attended a crowded pool party in the Lake of the Ozarks last weekend.

New Transcript Shows Trump Adviser Michael Flynn Colluding With Russia in 2016  —  Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser, pleaded guilty in federal court to the charge of lying to FBI officials about a conversation he had with the Russian ambassador.

Lawyer: Wife Of Charged Ex-MPD Officer Derek Chauvin Files For Divorce  —  MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A lawyer has issued a statement from the wife of the now-arrested and charged former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, and she said she has filed for divorce.  —  “This evening, I spoke with Kellie Chauvin and her family.

Leaked posts show Facebook employees asking the company to remove Trump's threat of violence  —  “If we fail the test case here, history will not judge us kindly”  —  Facebook's decision not to take action against recent posts about mail-in ballots and the Minnesota protests by President Trump …

Supreme Court, in 5-4 Decision, Rejects Church's Challenge to Shutdown Order  —  A California church argued that restrictions on public gatherings treated houses of worship worse than many businesses.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday turned away a request from a church in California …

Georgia politicians condemn violent protests, others see ‘day of reckoning’  —  Some of Georgia's top politicians echoed Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' call for violent protesters to “go home.”  Others said outraged demonstrators should translate their anger into votes in November.

Merkel rebuffs Trump invitation to G7 summit  —  BERLIN — Angela Merkel has rebuffed Donald Trump's invitation to attend a G7 summit, which the U.S. president is keen to portray as a symbol of a return to normality from the upheaval of the coronavirus crisis.

Gripped by disease, unemployment and outrage at the police, America plunges into crisis  —  A global pandemic has now killed more than 100,000 Americans and left 40 million unemployed in its wake.  Protests — some of them violent — have once again erupted in spots across the country over police killings of black Americans.

North Carolina governor: Trump insisted on full convention with no face masks or social distancing  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump called Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday and insisted on a full Republican convention this summer with no face masks or social distancing …

NYC Bus Drivers Union Refuses to Transport Protesters for the NYPD  —  Workers for New York City's MTA are refusing to transport people arrested during protests against police brutality in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.  A video of a bus driver refusing …

This is the presidency George Wallace never had  —  We know how a normal president responds when a white police officer ignites furious protests by killing a black man.  It is the way President Barack Obama responded in 2014 after a grand jury refused to indict a white police officer …

Lightfoot to Trump: ‘What I really want to say ... begins with F and it ends with U’  —  Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday ripped President Donald Trump, saying he's fomenting violence and playing to racist urges for political gain in response to the killing of a black man by a Minneapolis police officer and subsequent rioting.

Beyond Hong Kong, an Emboldened Xi Jinping Pushes the Boundaries  —  China's leader has taken bold steps on issues where he's often faced international pushback  —  BEIJING—Less than four months ago, Xi Jinping faced the biggest crisis of his leadership, as it was bruised by China's initial, bungled response to the coronavirus.