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  1m ago Minnesota governor calls for moment of silence Minnesota Governor Tim Walz issued a proclamation Tuesday asking Minnesotans to hold a moment of silence as George Floyd's funeral service begins in Texas."The world watched in horror as George Floyd's humanity was taken away from him," Walz's proclamation says. "We will not wake up…

RICHMOND, Va. — A judge in Richmond has issued an injunction preventing Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration from removing a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee for 10 days.The temporary injunction order issued Monday says the state is a party to a deed recorded in March 1890 in which it accepted the statue, pedestal…

President Donald Trump attacked the 75-year-old Buffalo protester who was shoved by police last week, igniting a furor that led to the prosecution of two officers on charges of felony assault. Trump on Tuesday tweeted a wild and, to say the least, unsubstantiated and unproven conspiracy theory about the man, Martin Gugino. “Buffalo protester shoved…

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said people who “don’t think of themselves as racists have kind of had the mask pulled off.” | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Joe Biden says he, like many white people, was wrong about racism in America. “I thought we had made enormous progress when we finally elected an African American president,”…

Though they repeat the false claim that voting by mail invites rampant fraud, President Donald Trump and White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany may have both cast illegal mail-in ballots in Florida. The president and his top spokesperson have both listed residential addresses on their Florida voter registration cards which were not their legal residences, HuffPost recently…