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President Trump threatened to take action to bring the city of Minneapolis “under control,” calling violent protesters outraged by the death of a black man in police custody “thugs” and saying that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
Cyntoia Brown walked out of prison in August 2019 after serving 15 years of a life sentence for a murder she committed when she was 16.
Police evacuated the 3rd Precinct station, the focus of many of the protests, before protesters entered the building.
The shots came during a protest demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, a black woman fatally shot by police in March.
Initially spared as the disease ravaged cities, rural areas in Alabama are now facing a “perfect storm.”
CNN Reporter Omar Jimenez and his camera crew were arrested on air.
Twitter did not remove the tweet, saying it had determined it might be in the public interest to have it remain accessible, but users could not see it on their timelines without clicking a warning.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called in the National Guard as looting broke out in St. Paul and a wounded Minneapolis braced for more violence after rioting over the death of George Floyd.
This visual aid did not involve a person with COVID-19.
The original comment was made by a public official in New Mexico.
The president escalated his war on social media companies Thursday, signing an executive order challenging the liability protections that have served as a bedrock for unfettered speech on the internet.
LGBTQ characters have been increasingly appearing in Disney films but often do so fleetingly.
As protests broke out in Minneapolis after the death of a black man while in police custody in May 2020, a video claimed riots took place in the Mall of America.
News media reports run the gamut from saying hydroxychloroquine is 91% effective to it being both ineffective and dangerous. How do people know what to believe?
President Donald Trump has been claiming extraordinarily sweeping powers that legal scholars say the president simply doesn’t have. And he has repeatedly refused to spell out the legal basis for those powers.
Social media posts in May 2020 claimed the incident was an example of the ballot-casting system's vulnerability to voter fraud.
The protests were in response to the death of George Floyd, who was seen on video gasping for breath during an arrest in which an officer kneeled on his neck for almost eight minutes.
The president lashed out at Twitter after the company added a warning phrase to two Trump tweets with unsubstantiated claims about mail-in ballots.
Around 2.1 million people applied for jobless aid in the last week.
Twitter’s move and Trump’s reaction raise a host of questions, including why Twitter acted now, how it decides when to use such warnings and what its newly assumed role means for the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Chauvin is the former Minneapolis police officer identified in news reports as the killer of George Floyd.
An old "prediction" got a new origin story.
Chauvin has been blamed for the death of George Floyd, who died after the Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck, choking him.
Two smartphone apps tracking the transmission of COVID-19 raised privacy questions — and where there are questions, there are usually rumors.
Norris, now 80, has been a frequent subject of hoaxes over the years.
Chauvin is the former Minneapolis police officer identified in news reports as the killer of George Floyd.
Memorial Day is for honoring and mourning the military personnel who have died while serving in the U.S. armed forces.
Two smartphone apps tracking the transmission of COVID-19 raised privacy questions — and where there are questions, there are usually rumors.
An old "prediction" got a new origin story.
President Obama was referencing an old, undesirable form of power.
