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Jason Koebler / VICE:
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 …
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WCCO | CBS Minnesota:
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.
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Washington Post:
Demonstrations for George Floyd lead to clashes outside White House — Several hundred people gathered outside the White House in two successive tense and confrontational demonstrations occurring hours apart on Friday, both of them protesting the death of George Floyd, who died …
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New York Times:
Sprawling Protest Movement Treads Line Between Justice Agenda and Chaos
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The Intercept:
The George Floyd Killing in Minneapolis Exposes the Failures of Police Reform
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Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:
Protests, some violent, spread in wake of George Floyd death
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Wall Street Journal:
The Minneapolis Neighborhood at the Center of Protests Over George Floyd's Death
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Ryan Faircloth / Star Tribune:
‘You need to go home,’ Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says as new fires, looting hit Minneapolis
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Amelia Nierenberg / New York Times:
Their Minneapolis Restaurant Burned, but They Back the Protest
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WCCO | CBS Minnesota:
Former MPD Officer Derek Chauvin In Custody, Charged With Murder In George Floyd's Death
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James Laporta / Associated Press:
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 …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
America Is a Tinderbox — Scenes from a country in free fall. — The last two and a half months in America have felt like the opening montage in a dystopian film about a nation come undone. First the pandemic hit and hospitals in New York City were overwhelmed.
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Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Analysis: Trump fuels new tensions in moment of crisis — WASHINGTON (AP) — Over 48 hours in America, the official death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped 100,000, the number of people who filed for unemployment during the crisis soared past 40 million, and the streets of a major city erupted …
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Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump said not a word to soothe a smoldering country. It's time for Biden to step up.
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Karra Small / FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV:
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.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
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 …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Roberts joins court's liberals to deny California church's lockdown challenge — A sharply divided Supreme Court late Friday turned aside a church's urgent plea that California's coronavirus lockdown orders are putting an unconstitutional burden on religious freedom.
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J. Edward Moreno / The Hill:
Supreme Court denies California church's challenge to state restrictions — The Supreme Court issued a rare late-night ruling on Friday against a California church challenging their state's stay-at-home order. — In a 5-4 vote, Chief Justice John Roberts broke from other conservative justices to rule in favor of the state.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
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.
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New York Times:
Flynn Discussed Sanctions at Length With Russian Diplomat, Transcripts Show
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Politico:
Flynn urged Russian ambassador to take ‘reciprocal’ actions, transcripts show
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
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 …
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Mark Zuckerberg:
This has been an incredibly tough week after a string of tough weeks. The killing of George Floyd showed yet again that for Black people in America, just existing means risking your life. This comes weeks after the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, and in the midst of Covid having …
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CNN:
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 …
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Politico:
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.
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Washington Post:
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.
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Violence rocks Atlanta as rioters smash windows, set fires, loot shops — Gov. Brian Kemp announced early Saturday that he'd deployed the National Guard to restore calm. — Rioters burned police cars and smashed their way into stores in downtown Atlanta and Buckhead despite pleas …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia politicians condemn violent protests, others see ‘day of reckoning’
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Keith Cowing / NASA Watch:
Eric Trump's Brother-In-Law Is The New Deputy NASA Chief Of Staff. Seriously. — Kyle Yunaska Named Deputy Chief of Staff At NASA Headquarters … Eric Trump's brother-in-law gets promoted. E&E News (2017) … Meet The Hottest Bachelors Of Washington D.C., Inside Edition
Chicago Tribune:
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.
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Fran Spielman / Chicago Sun-Times:
Lightfoot responds to Trump's tweet on Minneapolis protesters: ‘It begins with F and ends with YOU.’
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
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 …
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Barbara Sprunt / NPR:
The History Behind ‘When The Looting Starts, The Shooting Starts’
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