Protests

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Angry demonstrators took to the streets in North Carolina and Missouri on Tuesday to voice their discontent at their states’ stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic.The protests in Raleigh, N.C. and Jefferson City, Mo., are the latest in a series…

President Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., accused Facebook of "colluding with state governments to quash peoples free speech," calling its actions "chilling & disturbing." Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) asked rhetorically of the company's decision: "Because free speech is now illegal America?" "Given Big Tech’s history of bias and censorship, I’m deeply concerned that…

Conservatives rallied in state capitals from Pennsylvania to Arizona on Monday to reopen businesses from the coronavirus shutdown, a groundswell warning to governors to halt the unprecedented expansion of their powers. Several hundred demonstrators in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, defied Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s ban on mass gatherings — and social-distancing guidelines — to protest the governor’s…

Conservatives’ frustration over state stay-at-home orders continued to boil over into the streets with protests in Texas, Indiana, New Hampshire, Nevada, Maryland, Utah, and Wisconsin taking place on Saturday — reflecting simmering tensions about state governments’ responses to the coronavirus, but not necessarily widespread views, research indicates. The protests followed other similar events last week…

for the reopening of the state and the country during the coronavirus pandemic.The “You Can’t Close America” rally rode a wave of similar protests at statehouses and in city streets this past week, with people also gathering on Saturday in Indianapolis; Carson City, Nev.; Annapolis, Md.; and Brookfield, Wis.With more than 22 million unemployment claims…