Monthly Archives: May, 2020

CNN host Don Lemon polarized social media Thursday night with an anti-Trump diatribe as violent protests and riots erupted in Minneapolis. Lemon – who is billed as an anchor, not an opinion host – said that President Trump "contributed" to the environment that led to the death of 46-year-old Minneapolis man George Floyd earlier this week.CNN REPORTER, CREW FREED AFTER BEING ARRESTED…

Pennsylvania Democrat State Rep. Brian Sims tore into his GOP colleagues after learning that the Republican speaker of the House informed his party but not Democrats that a member of his caucus tested positive for coronavirus.“Every single day of this crisis this State Government Committee in Pennsylvania has met so that their members could line up…

A bill would allow the city to borrow up to $7 billion to pay its operating expenses. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the maneuver was “fiscally questionable.”Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers have lost their jobs, and thousands of businesses, like some in Coney Island, have closed.Credit...Brittainy Newman/The New York TimesMay 29, 2020Updated 10:13 a.m.…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called in the National Guard on Thursday as looting broke out in St. Paul and a wounded Minneapolis braced for more violence after rioting over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man in police custody, reduced parts of one neighborhood to a smoking shambles. The Minneapolis…

A white Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck opened fire on two people during his 19-year career and had nearly 20 complaints and two letters of reprimand filed against him. Derek Chauvin, 44, became the focus of street protests and a federal investigation after he was seen in cellphone video kneeling on…