Category Archives: World
Survey: US factories sink in May for third straight month
WASHINGTON - American factories slowed for the third consecutive month in May as they continued to sustain economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic. The Institute for Supply Management, an associ...
Jun 01, 2020
Florida police officer suspended for pushing kneeling woman
MIAMI - A Fort Lauderdale police officer was suspended after video showed he pushed a kneeling woman to the ground during Sunday protests, resulting in bottles being thrown. The officer's colleagues q...
Jun 01, 2020
Minnesota attorney general to assist in George Floyd case
MINNEAPOLIS - The Minnesota prosecutor who charged a police officer with murder in the death of George Floyd said Sunday that he asked the state's attorney general to assist in the case. Hennepin Coun...
May 31, 2020
Atlanta mayor: 2 officers fired in 'excessive force' arrests
ATLANTA - Two police officers have been fired and three others placed on desk duty over excessive use of force during a protest arrest incident, Atlanta's mayor said Sunday. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms...
May 31, 2020
Police cars burn, windows shatter as protests roil New York
NEW YORK - Street protests spiraled into New York City's worst day of unrest in decades Saturday, as fires burned, windows got smashed and dangerous confrontations between demonstrators and officers f...
May 30, 2020
Federal officer killed guarding courthouse near protest
OAKLAND, Calif. - A federal law enforcement officer in California was killed and another critically injured after being shot while providing security at the U.S. courthouse in Oakland amid one of the ...
May 30, 2020
Federal officer killed guarding courthouse near protest
OAKLAND, Calif. - A federal law enforcement officer in California was killed and another critically injured after being shot while providing security at the U.S. courthouse in Oakland amid one of the ...
May 30, 2020
Police: 1 dead after shots fired into car at Detroit protest
One person was killed in downtown Detroit after someone fired shots into a vehicle during a protest over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died in Minneapolis police custody, a Det...
May 30, 2020
Police: 1 dead after shots fired into car at Detroit protest
One person was killed in downtown Detroit after someone fired shots into a vehicle during a protest over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died in Minneapolis police custody, a Det...
May 30, 2020
Minneapolis protest misinformation stokes racial tensions
CHICAGO - The false social media posts started just hours after protesters first began chanting and carrying banners around the Minneapolis neighbourhood where George Floyd, an African American man, d...
May 30, 2020