All times ET.8:13 p.m. -- Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced a curfew starting at 5:00 p.m. for Saturday and Sunday, in response to protesters."BREAKING: Mayor Jenny Durkan has announced a curfew starting at 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in response to the downtown Seattle protests. The curfew will be in effect from 5 p.m. to…
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said Saturday that officials think "white supremacists" and "out-of-state instigators" could be behind the protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death, but a report showed that "about 86 percent" of arrests so far are mostly of in-state residents.Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz also said Saturday that the majority of the protestors arrested were from…
Initially peaceful protests in Philadelphia took on a different tone later Saturday afternoon after a car was set on fire and a crowd tried to gain access to a municipal building in one of many new demonstrations to emerge across the country during the day Saturday — only hours after violence rocked cities coast to…
The president also said that his base “loves the black people” before traveling to Florida to watch a rocket launch.President Trump spoke to reporters before boarding Marine One at the White House on Saturday.Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The New York TimesMay 30, 2020Updated 6:19 p.m. ETA day after claiming he didn’t mean to suggest that law enforcement officials…
The US military on Friday ordered several police units to be ready for potential deployment to Minnesota as the state experiences protests over the death of George Floyd.
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…