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Hundreds of demonstrators poured into the streets near Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park on Friday night, smashing windows and clashing with police officers in a protest that grew so tense that the city’s mayor forcefully told people to go home. Not far from the park, the city’s iconic tourist destination, some …

Donald Trump has threatened people protesting the death of George Floyd with “vicious dogs” and “ominous weapons” if they had breached the fence outside the White House, where members of the US Secret Service are “waiting for action”. In a Twitter thread posted after another night of protests and uprisings …

The European Union (EU) reiterated its support to the World Health Organization (WHO) this week and urged the United States to reconsider the decision to suspend its ties with that entity. US President Donald Trump has announced the end of his country’s relations with WHO and reported his government will …

US President Trump on Thursday, May 28, signed an executive order targetting Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a federal law that provides tech companies from being held liable for third-party content shared on their sites. You can read the executive order here and below: By the authority vested …

MSNBC host and Emmy nominee Ali Velshi faced an avalanche of online criticism after he described the ongoing Minneapolis unrest as “not, generally speaking, unruly” while reporting live from a burning neighborhood. Ali Velshi was in Minneapolis, Minnesota to cover the violent uproar over the death of George Floyd, a …

CNN accused the Minneapolis police of misrepresenting the circumstances surrounding the arrest of a black CNN correspondent and two TV crew members as they covered the protests against the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Friday morning. Omar Jimenez was arrested live on air early Friday morning as he …

Donald Trump has lashed out at Twitter after it limited access to one of his tweets. The social media firm said the post, in which Trump suggested he would have people rioting in the wake of George Floyd’s death shot, had violated its rules on glorifying violence. Floyd died after …

The US President Donald Trump has lashed out at those protesting in Minneapolis over the death of an unarmed black man in police custody, calling those involved in the third night of street clashes “thugs”. Mr Trump said he would not “stand back and watch this happen to a great …

Twitter has attached an unprecedented warning to a tweet by Donald Trump, accusing him of “glorifying violence”. The message has been added to a tweet that appears to threaten that people caught looting will be shot amid civil unrest in Minneapolis. Twitter’s warning came just hours after Trump said he …

At least seven people were shot in Louisville as hundreds of protesters converged on City Hall demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was fatally shot in March by police who broke down her door. Louisville Metro Police said early Friday that at least one person was in …

A CNN reporter and crew have been arrested live on air while covering the Minneapolis protests over the killing of George Floyd. Black correspondent Omar Jimenez had just shown a protester being arrested when about half a dozen white police officers surrounded him. Mr. Jiminez told the Minnesota State Patrol …

For years, Twitter and Facebook have enjoyed a healthy rivalry: They’ve competed for acquisitions, talent, and advertising dollars, and sometimes gone so far as to copy each others’ features in the never-ending pursuit to grow their audiences. But the clash between the two tech companies appeared to take on new …

A man has been shot dead near the scene of protests in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody on Monday. The man was found lying on the pavement at around 9.25 pm with a gunshot wound and was taken to hospital, …

Tropical Storm Bertha has made landfall in South Carolina. According to the National Hurricane Center, radar imagery indicates that the area of disturbed weather became significantly better organized Wednesday morning. A Tropical Storm Warning is now in effect for the coast of South Carolina from Edisto Beach to South Santee …

Donald Trump has threatened to close down social media platforms that do not support his agenda, a day after Twitter posted a fact-checking notice on one of his tweets. Social media firms suppressed conservative points of view, the president claimed without providing any evidence, before saying his administration would “strongly …

San Francisco firefighters are battling a four-alarm warehouse fire Saturday on Pier 45, the city’s fire department says. A quarter of the pier at Fisherman’s Wharf “has been lost to the flames,” according to the San Francisco Fire Department PIO. No injuries have been reported. The pier has been fully …

Joe Biden, the presumptive presidential candidate for the Democratic party in the 2020 election, told a black reporter that African-Americans who don’t know if they’re on his side or Trump’s “ain’t black.” The exchange happened on an episode of The Breakfast Club, a radio show featuring celebrity interviews during which …

Quds Day is an internationally commemorated day instituted by Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, to garner worldwide support for the oppressed Palestinian people. Needless to say, this day of international protest against the Zionist apartheid regime’s policies in the Occupied Palestinian …

The group of high-profile Republican strategists-in-exile who oppose Donald Trump released another advertisement this week to get under the president’s skin, this time playing to his reported insecurities about his 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale. “Meet Brad Parscale — from dead broke, to the man Trump can’t win without,” the …

Expect unprecedented spending as President Trump and Joe Biden kickstart their campaigns. It will be to no great effect, though, as opinions on both are set in stone. The cost of the 2020 presidential campaign had already outpaced the total cost of the 2016 presidential campaign by nearly $20 million …