National News

• 'Power to the people': Floyd's brother talks at NYC memorial June 5, 2020
  New Yorkers gathered Thursday for a memorial service for George Floyd, whose death last week at the hands of Minneapolis police has prompted ongoing global protests against police brutality
• AP journalist punched while walking with police commissioner June 5, 2020
  An Associated Press photographer on assignment has been attacked by a passerby while the journalist crossed the street with Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw and Mayor Jim Kenney
• Floyd protesters in Indiana marched by armed residents June 5, 2020
  Protesters in a rural Indiana city who took to the streets to condemn racism and police killings of black people encountered bystanders who were holding rifles during the demonstration
• Park police: Cyclist filmed assaulting people posting signs June 5, 2020
  Park police in Maryland are looking for a man after a video appeared to show him violently grab an object from a child who was posting signs protesting the death of George Floyd
• Federal court rejects EPA approval of widely used herbicide June 5, 2020
  A federal appeals court in San Francisco says the government must revoke its approval of a widely used weed killer that has damaged other crops and turned neighbor against neighbor in some farm communities
• Floyd mourned, celebrated as death used as call to action June 5, 2020
  Mourners at George Floyd's memorial service in Minneapolis are using the words of a mural projected above his golden coffin as a call for action
• `Get your knee off our necks!': Floyd mourned in Minneapolis June 5, 2020
  A spirited and fiery memorial service for George Floyd has brought a call for action
• JC Penney closing 154 stores in first post-bankruptcy phase June 5, 2020
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• The Latest: Protesters take to NYC streets after curfew June 5, 2020
  Protesters stayed on the streets of New York City after curfew for another day Thursday, spurred by the death of George Floyd
• Testimony: Shooter used racist slur as Arbery lay dying June 5, 2020
  A state investigator is alleging that the white man accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery was heard saying a racist slur as he stood over the black man, moments after hitting him with three shots from a pump-action shotgun
• 8:46: A number becomes a potent symbol of police brutality June 5, 2020
  In the protest movement surrounding George Floyd’s death, a time span has become an important symbol: 8 minutes, 46 seconds
• Kentucky governor: Jefferson Davis statue should be moved June 5, 2020
  Statues of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln tower over visitors to Kentucky’s Capitol, but the state’s governor doesn’t think the Confederate president belongs in the same space as the U.S. president who helped end slavery
• Woman charged in stepson's death accused of plotting escape June 4, 2020
  A Colorado woman charged with killing her 11-year-old stepson is now accused of plotting to break out of jail
• Black activists, allies call Lee statue removal a big win June 4, 2020
  After days of unrest over the death of George Floyd, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced a statue of Gen. Robert E
• Dallas officials remove Texas Ranger statue from Love Field June 4, 2020
  A published account of brutal and racist chapters in the history of an elite Texas investigative agency has prompted Dallas officials to remove a statue from Love Field's passenger terminal that honored the agency
• Sheriff: S Carolina deputies kill man who pointed guns June 4, 2020
  Authorities say a man was fatally shot by South Carolina deputies after he pointed two guns at them during a pursuit
• Authorities investigate fatal shooting of Arkansas officer June 4, 2020
  Arkansas authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of an Arkansas police officer who was found shot outside a home
• As nation confronts old demons, a 1770 slaying is recalled June 4, 2020
  As America reckons with the death of George Floyd, another black man killed in 1770 in colonial Boston has become a symbol of entrenched racism and oppression
• Prosecutor appointed to probe black man's killing by officer June 4, 2020
  A longtime central Indiana prosecutor has been appointed as a special prosecutor to investigate the fatal shooting of a black man by an Indianapolis police officer in May
• Florida Supreme Court blocks assault weapon ban from ballot June 4, 2020
  The Florida Supreme Court is blocking an assault weapons ban from going to voters in 2022