JUNE 5, 2020
America’s labor market unexpectedly rebounded in May, signaling the economy is picking up faster than thought from the depths of the damage from the coronavirus pandemic.
Nonfarm payrolls rose by 2.5 million after a 20.7 million tumble the prior month that was the largest in records back to 1939, according to Labor Department data Friday. The jobless rate...
JUNE 5, 2020
President Donald Trump walks past police in Lafayette Park after he visited outside St. John's Church across from the White House. - Patrick Semansky/AP Photo
President Donald Trump tweeted out a letter Thursday that a referred to a group of protesters as “terrorists,” following their violent ouster from a park near the White House earlier this week.
The letter...
JUNE 4, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS , MINNESOTA - JUNE 04: The casket of Gorge Floyd arrives at the memorial service on Thursday, June 4, 2020 in Minneapolis , Minnesota.
MINNEAPOLIS , MINNESOTA — Politicians, civil rights legends and celebrities joined family members Thursday to mourn George Floyd in ways rousing and uplifting, and for one long, poignant moment, silent.
The memorial for Floyd,...
JUNE 4, 2020
Fortified by troops in uniform, foreboding fencing and police in riot gear, President Donald Trump remained protected from largely peaceful protesters this week -- but not from the ire of his predecessors and the nation's top military figures.
While Trump has always embraced his outsider status among the elite president’s club, his defensive tone and calls to “dominate”...
JUNE 4, 2020
Americans are unhappy with President Donald Trump's response to the death of George Floyd, his handling of the ensuing protests and the way he has dealt with race relations in general, according to four polls released this week.
The death of Floyd, who was killed when a white Minneapolis police officer pinned him to the ground with a...
JUNE 4, 2020
FILE PHOTO: Protests against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd in Minneapolis
Minneapolis - Long before the death of George Floyd last week, efforts to overhaul the way policing is done in Minneapolis repeatedly fizzled in the face of a powerful 800-member union that championed military-style police tactics.
The union's labor contract with the city is a...
JUNE 3, 2020
Former President Barack Obama addresses the recent protests over the death of George Floyd over Zoom, June 3, 2020. - Obama.org
Former President Barack Obama weighed in on how systemic racism has been thrown into "high relief" during both the COVID-19 crisis which has disproportionately impacted communities of color and the nationwide protests amid tension between law...
JUNE 3, 2020
Police advance on protesters outside the White House to clear a path for President Trump to walk to St. Johns church in Washington on Monday. - Erin Schaff/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a weekend of protests that led all the way to his own front yard and forced him to briefly retreat to a bunker beneath the...
JUNE 2, 2020
Former president George W. Bush in October. - Ronald Martinez/Getty Images
Former president George W. Bush addressed the nationwide protests in a solemn yet hopeful statement Tuesday, commending the Americans demonstrating against racial injustice and criticizing those who try to silence them.
Bush closed his statement, which came a day after peaceful protesters were cleared by force to make...
JUNE 2, 2020
In interviews and posts on social media in recent days, current and former U.S. intelligence officials have expressed dismay at the similarity between events at home and the signs of decline or democratic regression they were trained to detect in other nations.
“I’ve seen this kind of violence,” said Gail Helt, a former CIA analyst responsible for tracking...
