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...
JUNE 2, 2020
U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr confers with Secret Service and other officials in Lafayette Park shortly before police moved forcibly against protesters. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
Attorney General William P. Barr personally ordered law enforcement officials on the ground to clear the streets around Lafayette Square just before President Trump spoke Monday, a Justice Department official said, a...
JUNE 2, 2020
From the black gravel pass—Karakoram, in the Turkic dialects of the traders who traversed the Himal—Frank Ludlow descended into the Chip-Chap, the silent river, headed to Daulat Beg Oldi, the place where a rich noble had died.
From there, the route led to an open plain, Depang, and then Haji Langar, where a pilgrims to Mecca were fed....
JUNE 2, 2020
Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AFP/Getty Images
Washington D.C. - Episcopal clergy linked to St. John’s church in Washington, D.C., were among the peaceful protesters violently swept out of the way by police so that Donald Trump could pose in front of the building on Monday evening, and they have condemned the US president’s behavior.
The Christian leaders were teargassed...
JUNE 2, 2020
The EU's chief diplomat on Tuesday warned President Donald Trump he did not have the power to change the format of G7 summit, after the US leader said he wanted to invite several other countries, including Russia.
Moscow was expelled from the club of the world's leading industrial nations in 2014 after annexing Crimea from Ukraine, but Trump...
JUNE 2, 2020
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visit Saint John Paul II National Shrine, Tuesday, June 2, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A day after a much-criticized photo op at a fire-damaged church near the White House, President Donald Trump took his anti-protester "law and order" message to a Catholic shrine, a visit that...
JUNE 2, 2020
Seeking to console a nation riven by nights of violence with a promise to heal its racial wounds, former vice president Joe Biden on Tuesday bluntly criticized the White House’s decision a night earlier toforcibly clear protesters from a Washington street so President Trump could pose with a Bible in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church.
“When peaceful...
