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In New York, officers used batons and shoved protesters down as they took people into custody and cleared the streets. One video showed on officer slam a woman to the ground as he walked past her in the street. In Louisville, a police officer fired what appeared to be pepper balls at a news crew, and a clip of the video amassed more than 8 million views on Twitter in less than six hours. Los Angeles police arrested more than 500 protesters on Friday night. … [Read more...] about Retreat or deploy? Police try to balance protest response

A man sets up his camp along the Indian River Lagoon at sunrise Saturday, May 30, 2020, at Titusville, Fla. as he waits to watch the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9, with Dragon crew capsule on top of the rocket. Two astronauts are set to fly on the SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station scheduled for launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. For the first time in nearly a decade, astronauts will blast into orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil, a first for a private company. less … [Read more...] about Launch watchers return for 2nd try with patience, umbrellas

Alternative graduation proposals included holding multiple ceremonies that fit under the restrictions in the governor's order and moving the graduation ceremony to South Carolina, where larger groups are permitted. Specific arrangements, including dates for the graduation ceremonies, will be discussed when the school board meets again on Tuesday. … [Read more...] about N.C school board votes for in-person graduation amid virus

Lightfoot was responding to a Trump tweet in which he wrote “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” in response to the sometimes violent protests in Minneapolis over the Monday death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who gasped for air and pleaded for help while a white police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes. Twitter quickly flagged Trump's tweet as a violation of its rules against “glorifying violence.” … [Read more...] about Chicago mayor: Trump trying to gain from George Floyd death

The reason why Flynn was keen for Moscow to tamp down its response to the Obama administration’s final round of sanctions was to advance a longstanding desire on Flynn’s behalf to unite the two nations against a dark vision of Islam that Flynn had come to hold. First on the agenda would be to come to terms on Syria, where both nations had deployed their militaries. It was something Flynn wanted the Pentagon to explore – and something that would lead to an encounter in the Seychelles between an infamous mercenary and the head of a sanctioned Russian fund.  … [Read more...] about Flynn Asked Russian for Alliance Against ‘Radical Islamists’ on Infamous Phone Call