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...
JUNE 2, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump (C) waves to journalists as he returns to the White House after posing for photographs in front of St. John's Episcopal Church June 01, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump held up a bible while standing in front of the church, which was partially burned during violent protests the night before. Church leaders said...
JUNE 2, 2020
Could President Trump order troops onto the streets of a major American city over the objections of local and state officials?
Trump threatened to do so Monday, saying that if governors and local officials failed to end civil unrest, he would deploy the military “to do the job for them.”
Normally, military troops are forbidden by law to be...
JUNE 1, 2020
President Trump holds a Bible as he visits St. John's Church near the White House on Monday. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
President Trump militarized the federal response to protests of racial inequality that have erupted in cities across America late Monday, declaring himself the “president of law and order” as military police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at...
JUNE 1, 2020
Protests are spreading through the US after the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for over 8 minutes.
Many companies are weighing in on the protests, but not all of them have announced specific actions, donations, or internal changes.
Read more to see how...
