Unemployment Rate Falls to 13.3%, U.S. Adds 2.5 Million Jobs
America’s workers likely suffered another devastating blow in May, with millions more jobs lost to...
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NYC Calmer as Buffalo Police Draw Ire for Protester Injury
The latest night of protests in New York City sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police was markedly calmer, while video of a police officer appearing to shove an elderly protester who falls and cracks his head...
Read MoreChief Struggles to Change Minneapolis Police Culture
When Medaria Arradondo was tapped to lead the Minneapolis Police Department in 2017, he faced a public newly outraged by the fatal police shooting of a woman who had called 911 and still carrying deep mistrust from the killing...
Read MoreOn Sad Anniversary, Few to Mourn the D-Day Dead in Normandy
At least the dead will always be there. All too many have been, for 76 years since that fateful June 6 on France’s Normandy beaches, when allied troops in 1944 turned the course of World War II and went on to defeat fascism in...
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Public Can Watch NC House Floor Debate Again in Person
The seats above the floor in the North Carolina House chamber are reopen to the public again. The...
Read MoreNorth Carolina Passes 2019 Farm Bill, Controversial Hemp Section Omitted
North Carolina legislators have finally completed the General Assembly’s annual agriculture policy bill, albeit the one that was first debated in 2019. The Senate gave final approval on Thursday to a compromise measure that also...
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Floyd to Be Eulogized in Minneapolis Memorial, First of 3
Mourners converged in Minneapolis on Thursday for the first in a series of a memorials to George...
Read MoreProsecutors Charge 3 More Officers in George Floyd’s Death
Prosecutors charged three more police officers Wednesday in the death of George Floyd and filed a new, tougher charge against the officer at the center of the case, delivering a victory to protesters who have filled the streets...
Read MoreHong Kong Marks Tiananmen Anniversary, Defying a Police Ban
Thousands of people in Hong Kong defied a police ban Thursday evening, breaking through barricades to hold a candlelight vigil on the 31st anniversary of China’s crushing of a democracy movement centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen...
Read MoreEx-Defense Chief Mattis Rips Trump for Dividing Americans
In an extraordinary rebuke, former defense secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday denounced President Donald Trump’s heavy-handed use of military force to quell protests near the White House and said his former boss was setting up a...
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