US military now rethinking links to Confederate Army symbols
Jun 10, 2020
By ROBERT BURNS WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military is rethinking its traditional connection to Confederate Army symbols, mindful of their divisiveness at a time the nation is wrestling with questions of race after the death…
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George Floyd, whose death energized a movement, to be buried
Jun 09, 2020
By JUAN A. LOZANO and NOMAAN MERCHANT HOUSTON (AP) — The black man whose death has inspired a worldwide reckoning over racial injustice will be buried in Houston Tuesday, carried home in a horse-drawn carriage.…
Police back off as peaceful protests push deep reforms
Jun 08, 2020
By JAKE SEINER, LISA MARIE PANE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI AP - Calls for deep police reforms gained momentum as leaders in the city where George Floyd died at the hands of police pushed to dismantle…
Turning grief into change, movement targets racial injustice
Jun 06, 2020
By COREY WILLIAMS, DEEPTI HAJELA and AARON MORRISON AP - Momentum for what many hope is a sustained movement aimed at tackling racial injustice and police reforms promised to grow Saturday as more protesters filled…
Protests large but peaceful after new charges in Floyd case
Jun 04, 2020
By NOMAAN MERCHANT, AMY FORLITI and TIM SULLIVAN MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Demonstrations across the U.S. to condemn racism and police abuses remained large but mostly without the violence of previous nights on the eve of…
Iowa voters oust Rep. King, shunned for insensitive remarks
Jun 03, 2020
By THOMAS BEAUMONT DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans in northwest Iowa ousted Rep. Steve King in Tuesday’s primary, deciding they’ve had enough of the conservative lightning rod known for making incendiary comments about immigrants…
Minnesota files complaint against police in Floyd’s death
Jun 02, 2020
By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The state of Minnesota filed a human rights complaint Tuesday against the Minneapolis Police Department in the death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer…
US heads into a new week shaken by violence and pandemic
Jun 01, 2020
By ASHRAF KHALIL, AARON MORRISON and JIM VERTUNO WASHINGTON (AP) — With cities wounded by days of violent unrest, America headed into a new week with neighborhoods in shambles, urban streets on lockdown and shaken…
Minneapolis police station torched amid George Floyd protest
May 29, 2020
By TIM SULLIVAN and AMY FORLITI MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Cheering protesters torched a Minneapolis police station that the department abandoned as three days of violent protests spread to nearby St. Paul and angry demonstrations flared…
Violent protests rock Minneapolis for 2nd straight night
May 28, 2020
By DOUG GLASS MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Violent protests over the death of a black man in police custody rocked a Minneapolis neighborhood for a second straight night as angry crowds looted stores, set fires and…