WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Prominent Democratic politicians on Friday embraced the cause of U.S. protesters angered by the death of a black man in Minneapolis police custody, adopting their slogans and announcing reforms as tensions remained high in major cities. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, who has sparred with U.S. President Donald […]
Daily Archives: June 5, 2020
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Image caption In Grindelwald the views are breathtaking, but the hotels are empty As cases of Covid-19 start to fall across Europe, lockdowns are being relaxed and more travel is being permitted. That’s a relief for alpine tourist resorts, which were forced to close down right in the middle of […]
SYDNEY (AP) — The first of several Black Lives Matter protests across Australia on Saturday got underway against a backdrop of possible clashes between demonstrators and police in Sydney, after a court sided with police that the gathering posed too much risk for spreading the coronavirus. The first gathering in […]
A federal appeals court ruled they should not remain in home detention while prosecutors appeal their bail decision. The lawyers, Colinford Mattis, 32, and Urooj Rahman, 31, had been out on bail with electronic monitoring. On Saturday night, Brooklyn federal prosecutors charged them with causing damage by fire and explosives […]
FILE PHOTO: People wearing face masks following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak line up at a bus station in Beijing, China June 4, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins (Reuters) – China recorded three new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus as of the end of Friday, down from five the day […]
The ongoing demonstrations against police violence and the arrests of protesters have thrust bail funds, many of which are local and volunteer-run, into the national spotlight, attracting online trolls looking to disrupt the fundraising efforts. Multiple bail funds and groups organizing protests have experienced disruptions of service in recent days, […]
When the 2019-20 W-League season wrapped up in March, it became the last professional football league in the world to complete a full calendar unaffected by the coronavirus shutdown. While the grand final between Melbourne City and Sydney FC was played in front of a skeleton crowd of family and […]
Photo: ESA Just because E3 2020 is canceled doesn’t mean everything developers were going to show there has suddenly disappeared. While no digital version of E3 is in the works, other companies and organizations have stepped up with their own virtual events to deliver news on their latest plans and […]