Month: May 2020
Trump’s tweet about rioters echoes 1960s Miami police chief
Trump’s later repeated condemnation of the killing and outreach to the man’s family on Friday was a marked change in tone from his earlier comments that had invoked a civil-rights-era phrase fraught with racist overtones.
Read MoreMissouri’s Only Clinic That Provides Abortions Allowed To Remain Open
“Planned Parenthood has demonstrated that it provides safe and legal abortion care,” a state commission ruled. It said state health regulators wrongly blocked the St. Louis clinic’s renewal in 2019. (Image credit: Jeff Roberson/AP)
Read MorePixar Makes History With First LGBT Protagonist in Short Movie Out
(NEW YORK) — In Steven Clay Hunter’s 23 years as an animator at Pixar, he has drawn a seven-armed octopus, a Canadian daredevil and a wheezing toy penguin. But there were scenes he never expected to animate until he began
Read MoreMinneapolis police officer charged with murder of George Floyd
A white former Minneapolis police officer was charged with murder on Friday after a bystander video showed him pinning his knee into the neck of an unarmed black man who later died, an incident that triggered three nights of violent
Read MoreJPMorgan CEO calls Minneapolis events ‘tragic, heartbreaking’ in staff memo
JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon called events in Minneapolis, where this week a black man died in police custody, “tragic and heartbreaking” in a memo to staff on Friday.
Read MoreWall Street ends mostly higher as U.S.-China spat simmers
U.S. stocks finished mostly higher on Friday after President Donald Trump announced measures against China in response to new security legislation that were less threatening to the U.S. economy than investors had feared.
Read MoreIn broadside against China, Trump moves toward ending Hong Kong privileges
President Donald Trump on Friday ordered his administration to begin the process of eliminating special U.S. treatment for Hong Kong to punish China, but stopped short of calling an immediate end to privileges that have helped the territory remain a
Read MoreTrump Moves to Strip Hong Kong of Special U.S. Relationship – The New York Times
Trump Moves to Strip Hong Kong of Special U.S. Relationship The New York Times Trump announces unprecedented action against China CNN Trump announces US ‘terminating’ relationship with WHO Fox News Hong Kong and Taiwan are cultural powerhouses. That terrifies Beijing. The Washington Post Jimmy
Read MoreMinneapolis Protests: Live Updates as Derek Chauvin is Charged With Murder
Derek Chauvin, the white former police officer seen on video using his knee to pin down George Floyd, a black man who later died, was arrested after days of fiery protests.
Read MoreHow Trump’s Twitter Remarks Escalate Growing Crisis in Minneapolis
The president’s tweets prompted Twitter to append them with a note saying the posts were “glorifying violence.” Joe Biden condemned Mr. Trump, saying “it’s no time to encourage violence.”
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