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US Supreme Court blocks Trump rule limiting mail voting, sides with Dem states
Stock indexes head higher on Wall Street after wobbly start
Stocks are notching modest gains on Wall Street Monday as investors balance cautious optimism about the reopening of businesses shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic against worries that the civil unrest ac…
Gunmen attack refugee camp in Niger, cut off water supply
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Dozens of armed men on motorcycles have attacked a town in western Niger that has been hosting 35,000 displaced people, killing three and cutting off the community's water supply, the U.N. ref…
Family autopsy: Floyd asphyxiated by sustained pressure
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An autopsy commissioned for George Floyd’s family found that he died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression when a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Floyd's neck until he stop…
Attorney says family-commissioned autopsy shows George Floyd died of ‘asphyxia due to neck and back compression’
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorney says family-commissioned autopsy shows George Floyd died of ‘asphyxia due to neck and back compression’.
Nearly 26,000 nursing home deaths reported as lockdowns ease
WASHINGTON (AP) — At least a quarter of the COVID-19 deaths in the United States were among nursing home residents, a new report said, a disclosure that came as coronavirus restrictions eased Monday even as U.S. pr…
'Hate just hides': Biden vows to take on systematic racism
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden vowed to address institutional racism in his first 100 days in office as he sought to elevate his voice in the exploding national debate over racism and police brutality.
LA has seen racial uprisings, many not shocked by new round
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When
Facebook employees speak out against company over Trump
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook employees are using Twitter to register their frustration over CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to leave up posts by President Donald Trump that
Floyd's brother pleads for peace; Trump takes combative tone
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd’s brother pleaded for peace in the streets Monday, saying destruction is “not going to bring my brother back at all,” while President Donald Trump berated most of the nation’s govern…
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Military service academies plan for students' return in fall
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy is planning to have its 4,400 midshipmen return to campus in Annapolis, Maryland, for the fall, after students completed the last semester with online learning from thei…
SpaceX captures the flag, beating Boeing in cosmic contest
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first astronauts launched by SpaceX declared victory Monday in NASA’s cosmic capture-the-flag game.
Locked out: UK records sunniest month on record in May
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s national weather agency has confirmed what most people cooped up at home during the coronavirus lockdown may have guessed — May was the sunniest month on record.
Nearly 26,000 nursing home COVID-19 deaths reported to feds
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health authorities have received reports of nearly 26,000 nursing home residents dying from COVID-19, according to materials prepared for the nation's governors. That number is partial and…
Israel's Gantz tells army to prep for annexing West Bank
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's defense minister urged the military on Monday to hasten preparations for the country's planned annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank, in apparent anticipation of what could be fier…