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States Activate National Guard as Minnesota Governor Blames Outsiders for Violence – Slate

States Activate National Guard as Minnesota Governor Blames Outsiders for Violence  Slate Every Person Arrested In Saint Paul Last Night Was From Out Of State, Mayor Says  Forbes ‘Light ’em up!’ Cops in Minneapolis fire paint rounds at civilians standing on their

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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti responds to the death of George Floyd – Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti responds to the death of George Floyd  Los Angeles Times National Guard Called in to Quell Violence in Los Angeles  U.S. News & World Report View Full Coverage on Google News

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Former NAACP Head Cornell Brooks Blames Derek Chauvin For Violence At Protests

“There would be no protests, there would be no demonstrations, had Derek Chauvin not killed George Floyd,” former NAACP President Cornell Brooks tells All Things Considered. (Image credit: Alex Brandon/AP)

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Officials see extremist groups, disinformation pushing US protests to violence

Federal law enforcement officials insist far-left groups are stoking violence, while experts who track extremist groups also report seeing evidence of far-right at work

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Protests over death of George Floyd, police killings spread to London, Berlin, Toronto – The Washington Post

Protests over death of George Floyd, police killings spread to London, Berlin, Toronto  The Washington Post Cities reeling from violent riots tighten restrictions, implement curfews as National Guard deployed  Fox News George Floyd protests spread nationwide: Live updates  CNN International George Floyd protests:

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Target Temporarily Closing 105 Stores in 10 States as Nationwide Protests Continue

Target is temporarily closing 105 stores in 10 states after several were broken into during protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week. The company is closing 46 stores in California and 33 in Minnesota, where the

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D.C. Mayor Urges President Trump to Stop Writing Divisive Tweets and Help the Country Heal

On Sunday, the mayor of Washington, D.C., called upon President Donald Trump to stop writing tweets that she says divide the country as nationwide protests against police brutality continued, sparked by the death of a Minneapolis man, George Floyd. Hours

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Christo, artist known for massive, fleeting displays, dies

Along with his late wife Jeanne-Claude, the artists careers were defined by their ambitious art projects that quickly disappeared soon after they were erected. In 2001, he installed more than 7,500 vinyl gates in New York’s Central Park and and

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Two Crises Convulse a Nation: A Pandemic and Police Violence

Emotions were already raw over the toll of a pandemic that has killed more than 100,000 people across the country and cost millions of jobs.

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