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Seattle police declared a riot Saturday following large demonstrations in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and deployed flash bangs and pepper spray to try to clear an area near where weeks earlier people had set up an “occupied protest zone” that stretched for several blocks. Authorities said rocks, bottles, fireworks …

Hurricane Hanna pummeled the south Texas coast on Saturday night with howling winds and a surging sea that threatened a broad area already contending with an intense spike in coronavirus deaths. Hanna is the first hurricane for the 2020 Atlantic storm season, which is expected to be unlike any other …

One person was killed when several shots were fired amid a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Austin, Texas, on Saturday, authorities said. Footage posted during a Facebook Live showed the moment when several shots rang out in the Texas capital as about 100 people marched and chanted, “Fists up! …

Tropical Storm Hanna is expected to hit the southern Texas coast as a hurricane on Saturday afternoon or early evening, forecasters said, all while another tropical storm approached the Caribbean. Hanna was centered about 140 miles (225 kilometers) east-southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said early …

Almost 40 countries have reported record single-day increases in coronavirus infections over the past week, around double the number that did so the previous week, according to a Reuters tally showing a pick-up in the pandemic in every region of the world. The rate of cases has been increasing not …

Security was tight outside the U.S. consulate in the Chinese city of Chengdu on Saturday as staff inside prepared to leave, a day after China ordered it to close in response to a U.S. order for China to shut its consulate in Houston. The tit-for-tat consulate closures have brought a …

The United States military has said Russia appears to be sending more military equipment to its mercenaries in Libya, including in the flashpoint city of Sirte, in breach of an arms embargo. The US military’s Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on Friday there was mounting evidence from satellite photos of Moscow’s …

U.S. police and security forces must not use disproportionate force against protesters and journalists in U.S. cities including Portland or detain them unlawfully, the United Nations human rights office said on Friday. Law enforcement officers and federal forces must be clearly identifiable so that they can be held to account …

Global shares skidded further from five-month peaks on Friday as a bounce-back in European business activity did little to ease the jitters surrounding Sino-U.S. tensions, while gold approached a record high. The mood darkened after Beijing ordered the United States to close its consulate in Chengdu, in retaliation for being …

Two US warplanes have conducted dangerous and aggressive maneuvering closed to an Iranian airliner, putting lives of tens of civilian passengers on board in danger. The incident took place on Thursday involving two warplanes and Mahan Air’s Flight 1152 that had taken off from Tehran and was en route to …

A federal judge specifically blocked U.S. agents from arresting or using physical force against journalists and legal observers at the ongoing Portland, Oregon, protests that have sparked confrontations between local officials and President Donald Trump over the limits of federal power. U.S. Judge Michael Simon made his ruling late Thursday, …

China ordered the United States on Friday to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu, ratcheting up a diplomatic conflict at a time when relations have sunk to their lowest level in decades. The move was a response to the Trump administration’s order this week for Beijing to …

“Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.” President Trump again sought to showcase his mental fitness on television by reciting, over and over again in an interview broadcast on Wednesday evening, what he said was a sample cognitive testing sequence. For the better part of a month, Mr. Trump, 74, has made …

Could an American takeover of TikTok save it from being locked out of the United States? US investors are reportedly considering buying the video-sharing app from Chinese parent company ByteDance in an effort to save TikTok’s sizeable foothold in America. A group of investors, including venture capital firms Sequoia and …

Joe Biden called Donald Trump the “first” racist elected as United States president, despite several owning slaves. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s comments on Wednesday came during an online campaign event organised by the Service Employees International Union when one participant complained about Mr Trump’s alleged racism over Covid-19. Mr …

Portland’s mayor faced a hostile crowd of protesters Wednesday night. They screamed at and sharply questioned him as he tried to rally the demonstrators who’ve clashed repeatedly with federal agents sent in by President Trump to quell ongoing unrest in the city. It was the 55th straight night of protests …

The U.S. government’s order to China to shut its consulate in Houston is an attempt to blame Beijing for U.S. failures ahead of the November presidential election, Chinese state media said in editorials on Thursday. The United States said on Wednesday it had given China 72 hours to close the …

President Donald Trump announced a surge of federal law enforcement to address crime in U.S. cities, saying that Chicago, Illinois, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, will be added to the Justice Department program dubbed “Operation Legend.” “Today I’m announcing a surge of federal law enforcement into American communities plagued by violent …

The majority of undecided voters asked who they would choose if they had to pick President Donald Trump or Joe Biden at the polls opted for the Democratic candidate, according to new polling. A Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll gave Biden an 8-point lead over the president among registered voters asked, with …

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have criticized Donald Trump’s leadership, in a teaser for a filmed discussion between the pair. The former president and vice president filmed a socially-distant conversation about challenges facing the US, in Obama’s office in Washington, DC earlier this month, that will be streamed on Biden’s …