| Trump vows to help oust GOP senator after criticism: 'Get any candidate ready' Posted: 04 Jun 2020 05:31 PM PDT  Donald Trump wrote Thursday that he would campaign against Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski over her praise of comments made by Gen. James Mattis.
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| Pentagon intelligence employees raise concerns about supporting domestic surveillance amid protests Posted: 04 Jun 2020 12:49 PM PDT  The government's increasingly militarized response to nationwide protests has sparked concern among employees of a Pentagon intelligence agency, who fear they might be compelled to help conduct surveillance on American demonstrators, sources tell Yahoo News.
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| Cops Are Finally Being Disciplined—but Is Anybody Buying It? Posted: 05 Jun 2020 07:24 PM PDT  Nearly two weeks into protests against the killing of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis police custody, a slew of different cities across the country have been forced to confront the brutal methods used by their own police officers as videos emerged of harrowing incident after harrowing incident. And on Friday, it seemed a reckoning of sorts was in the air: Police officers in multiple cities were suspended, hit with charges, or stripped of their powers after they were caught on camera treating peaceful protesters like combatants. In New York City, where earlier this week authorities had praised the police department's "restraint" amid protests despite video evidence to the contrary, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea announced that two officers involved in violent encounters with protesters—including one woman who was violently pushed to the ground and a man who was pepper sprayed after his mask was pulled down—have been suspended without pay.New York Cops Beat Protesters for Crime of Being ThereIn Philadelphia, the District Attorney's office filed aggravated assault charges against police inspector Joseph Bologna after a video showed him hitting a demonstrator with a metal baton. The demonstrator, a Temple University student who was also arrested and detained for 24 hours, needed ten staples and sutures in his head following Monday's incident in Center City. Several states away, two Chicago police officers caught on video pulling a woman from a car by her hair before placing a knee on her neck have been stripped of their police powers pending an investigation, authorities said in a Friday statement. But before the night was even halfway over, the illusion of change began to unravel. NYPD officers rushed dozens of demonstrators in Manhattan that were out past the 8 p.m. curfew, arresting people in droves and hitting several with batons. At least 10 protesters were arrested after the peaceful protest—several of whom chanted "black lives matter" while they were awaiting transport, according to City & State NY."This is outrageous. We were engaged in a non-violent protest. Stop arresting New Yorkers for no reason," NYC Council Member Ben Kallos tweeted.Across the river in Brooklyn, one protester told The Daily Beast he was pushed over by authorities—prompting other residents to shout and swear at officers pushing them to go home past curfew. After a tense stand-off in which cops yelled at reporters and pushed people who had been peacefully protesting onto the sidewalks, at least a dozen were arrested and directed into NYPD vans. And in Buffalo, while there was a sense of accountability after the officers who shoved down 75-year-old Martin Gugino on Thursday night were suspended without pay, there was another sign of the rift between peaceful protesters and police officers as 57 fellow members of the Buffalo Police Department Emergency Response Team resigned in solidarity with the suspended officers.In Minneapolis, where protesters continued to express outrage over the death of Floyd on Friday, demonstrators were skeptical of police being held accountable. Zeque Davies, a 29-year-old whose parents emigrated to Minneapolis from Liberia, said the cities that have disciplined officers in recent days are "trying to prove a point through the media." "I don't think they're actually holding cops accountable," Davies told The Daily Beast. "A slap on the wrist and a paid vacation is not holding a cop accountable. Trying him, arresting him and giving him a charge, that's holding a cop accountable."Demonstrators in other cities weren't convinced that a simple suspension would solve any problems. "I'm sure there are professional police officers. But what we're seeing is that unlike other departments or other services, when a police officer goes rogue, they kill people," Tara Smith, 30, told The Daily Beast at a vigil held at Union Square in Manhattan. "A city clerk is not going to do the same kind of damage, so you can't tell me that they should not be held to a higher standard than other industries and other departments and services." Others pointed out that all the recent acts of brutality by police were happening even while people were filming them—raising the question of what happens when the cameras stop rolling. Carolina Martinez, a bartender in Buffalo taking part in a peaceful protest on Friday, said it only took four hours for video of police officers shoving down a peaceful protester to garner worldwide attention a day earlier. "The only thing we can do now is just continue to just broadcast it," she said. Residents still came out in droves on Friday to protest. In Washington, D.C., the mayor's office commissioned "Black Lives Matter" to be painted across a street leading to the White House.Cops Reclaim New York in Massive Show of Force In New York, thousands of residents across the five boroughs took to the streets despite the rain. Upstate, in Buffalo, protesters gathered in Niagara Square demanding police reform one day after an elderly activist was shoved to the ground by officers.The nation-wide demonstrations on Friday also focused on Breonna Taylor, the Kentucky EMT worker fatally shot in her home during a botched March police raid. On Friday, Taylor would have been 27-years-old. From New York to Portland to Miami, thousands of protesters sang Happy Birthday in Taylor's honor. In Kentucky, dozens of demonstrators gathered in Jefferson Square Park in Kentucky to honor her memory, many writing birthday cards that will be sent to Taylor's family.In Miami, hundreds of residents took to the streets in a Black Lives Matter protest, forcing officials to shut down several highways and the mayor to change the city-wide curfew. The Miami Police Department closed Interstate 95 in both directions to allow space for the continued protesters chanting "say their names" near Wynwood. "I think the protests are finally getting politicians and police departments to finally listen. Everyday it's a step forward," Ashlynn Lee, 20, told The Daily Beast. Her friend, Tanisha Brown, 20, added: "They are definitely listening to what these protests are about. We are taking not only over the streets in the 50 states and different countries, but also social media. All you see when you scroll down is black lives matter. People are starting to shout it is definitely happening. Everybody is fighting for black lives."About an hour later, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giminez moved the curfew to 10 p.m., after it was pushed back to midnight earlier this week. Alan, one protester who attended the Miami protests, called the mayor's decision to bump up the curfew due to "unrest" a "bullshit move.""If it wasn't about Black Lives Matter and police reform, the protestors would be treated differently. There was no unrest," Alan said. In Minneapolis, the intersection where Floyd was killed has turned into a constant block party—complete with a stage that hosts speakers, spoken word artists, and rappers. Robin Jackson, 27-year-who lives down the street, told The Daily Beast things are peaceful in the downtown Minneapolis neighborhood, for now. He added that while some Americans are reeling from Floyd's tragic death, the black community is simply witnessing what they have known for years."I feel like this is just the acknowledgment among people other than Black people, where they can say, "Ok, maybe they have a point," Jackson said. "They're at least acknowledging that something is happening."The ongoing protests have already sparked police reform in two states. City officials in Minneapolis have agreed to ban police chokeholds while detaining suspects and require officers to intervene when they see unauthorized force used by a colleague. Every Buffalo Cop in Elite Unit Quits to Back Officers Who Shoved Elderly Man to GroundIn California, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday ordered the "carotid hold," a neck restraint move that blocks blood flow to the brain, be removed from police training. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Friday announced a ban on the police use of tear gas for 30 days as protests are expected to continue in the city. The ban came just hours after three civilian police watchdog groups urged Seattle leaders to ban the violent tactic that public health officials believe may potentially increase the COVID-19 spread. A federal judge in Denver Friday also ruled that police must limit their use of "chemical weapons or projectiles" and a number of other measures of force against protesters, calling the past actions of law enforcement nation-wide "disgusting."As demonstrators have continued to take to the streets, one medical worker in New York acknowledged that the health care community is concerned about how the protests will ultimately impact the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. "Obviously it worries us because we're afraid of a spike in coronavirus cases. We all work at a hospital and we know what that means when that happens," Sushmitha Echt, an attending physician at Northwell Health, told The Daily Beast. "At the same time, we're wearing our masks... there are certain things we just have to take a stand for. This is one of those things."Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Denver police fire pepper balls at man yelling that his pregnant fiancée is in car Posted: 05 Jun 2020 03:18 PM PDT  "Honestly I thought I was going to die. I thought I was going to be the next black man shot by police," the man said.
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| Tired of troops on the streets, Washington, D.C., names 'Black Lives Matter Plaza' outside the White House Posted: 05 Jun 2020 10:27 AM PDT  Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the change Friday morning, but a local Black Lives Matter group called it "a performative distraction."
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| Iranian wedding party fuelled new COVID-19 surge, President Rouhani says Posted: 06 Jun 2020 01:57 AM PDT  DUBAI (Reuters)- - A wedding party contributed to a new surge in coronavirus infections in Iran, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday but insisted the country had no option but to keep its economy open despite warnings of a second wave of the epidemic. Iran, which has been gradually relaxing its lockdown since mid-April, has reported a sharp rise of new daily infections in recent days. "At one location, we witnessed a peak in this epidemic, the source of which was a wedding that caused problems for the people, health workers and losses to the economy and the country's health system," Rouhani said on state TV.
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| 2 Buffalo cops charged with assault after video shows officers shoving 75-year-old man to the ground Posted: 06 Jun 2020 09:31 AM PDT  Two suspended Buffalo police officers were charged with second-degree assault after video showing officers shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground.
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| China Promises ‘Consequences’ if Britain Grants Haven for Hong Kong Residents Posted: 05 Jun 2020 09:42 AM PDT  China is warning that the United Kingdom is opening itself up to serious "consequences" if it follows through on a plan to offer refuge and a path to citizenship for nearly three million Hong Kong citizens should China implement a restrictive national security law.China believes that "Hong Kong people who were born in Hong Kong are Chinese nationals," said Chen Wen, Minister and First Staff Member of Chinese Embassy in London, in a BBC interview."There will be consequences, that's for sure," Wen said.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlined the proposal on Tuesday, saying that if necessary, Britain will allow Hong Kong residents who hold British National Overseas passports to come to the UK for a "renewable period of 12 months and be given further immigration rights, including the right to work, which could place them on a route to citizenship." The move would be "one of the biggest changes in our visa system in British history," Johnson said.The prime minister declared that Beijing's new national security law violates the terms of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the agreement the U.K. reached with China after Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.China warned Britain to abandon its "colonial state of mind" regarding Hong Kong.China last month approved national security laws, which have yet to be implemented, that would allow Beijing to wield expanded power over Hong Kong. Pro-Democracy activists and other critics say the national security laws would effectively scrap the "one country, two systems" policy that has allowed Hong Kong its political freedoms and civil liberties despite still being technically governed by China.Wen denied that China was threatening anything but warned that the UK's move would be "damaging" to Britain's "image of abiding by its own commitments" as well as to the "entire relationship.""I'm just saying this is not the correct decision, and it will be damaging to Hong Kong's stability," she said.
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| Coronavirus: Madagascar minister fired over $2m lollipop order Posted: 05 Jun 2020 09:16 AM PDT  Rijasoa Andriamanana said pupils would be given lollipops to mask the taste of a coronavirus "cure".
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| Trump says the economy will cure the 'very sad problem' of police killing blacks Posted: 05 Jun 2020 11:07 AM PDT  Over the past two days, President Trump has twice been asked how he plans to try to fix the daunting problem of systemic racism in police departments across America and both times he has made clear that he believes a healthy economy will do the trick.
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| U.S says door remains open for diplomacy with Iran Posted: 05 Jun 2020 11:54 AM PDT  The door remains open for a wider negotiation with Iran about its nuclear program and other issues, but so far talks have been limited to prisoner releases, U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said on Friday. "(President Donald Trump) has had the door open to diplomacy for many years and in the same time frame, he has met (North Korean leader) Kim Jong Un three times.
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| Fact check: Huntington Beach photos comparing coronavirus protest, BLM protest are real Posted: 05 Jun 2020 06:57 PM PDT  A recent Facebook post compares two photos from protests at Huntington Beach, California.
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| Shot officer was targeted at Vegas protest, authorities say Posted: 05 Jun 2020 12:27 PM PDT  A prosecutor said Friday a 20-year-old Las Vegas man deliberately shot and gravely wounded a police officer during a Las Vegas Strip protest of the death George Floyd in Minneapolis, and said the man fired at least two other shots that night. Justice of the Peace Melanie Andress-Tobiasson cited her review of police video that hasn't been made public yet in the attempted murder, battery and firearms case against Edgar Samaniego. Prosecutor Giancarlo Pesci said the footage provides "visual evidence of the actual act."
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| Adoptee's historic court case could change how adoptees use the legal system Posted: 04 Jun 2020 01:52 PM PDT  Kara Bos's lawsuit could help her find out why she was abandoned and who her mother was. It could also change how adoptees use the legal system.
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| Tom Cotton’s Foes Are Embracing Authoritarianism Posted: 05 Jun 2020 08:21 AM PDT  It was probably inevitable that, at some point, the New York Times would become engulfed in the national controversy over racism and everything that's wrong with America.
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| Soldiers Pull BLM Signs, Confederate Flag from Vehicles After Viral Confrontation Posted: 05 Jun 2020 06:49 AM PDT  In the video, a soldier demands that another, out of frame, remove "Black Lives Matter" decals from his personal vehicle.
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| Welcome Home, Hong Kong Posted: 04 Jun 2020 10:30 AM PDT  London doesn't have the power to push the corrupt little junta in Beijing into being halfway decent to the people of Hong Kong, but Boris Johnson has a bold solution for almost half of those people: Come to the United Kingdom.Hong Kong is a former British territory, and about 3 million of its 7.5 million residents hold or are eligible for a limited kind of British passport (the "British national overseas" passport issued to those born in Hong Kong before the territory was relinquished to China in 1997) that entitles them to travel to the United Kingdom but not to permanently reside or work there. As Beijing prepares to implement in Hong Kong a robust version of the totalitarianism it practices everywhere else in China — in contravention of its agreement with the British requiring the Chinese government to honor Hong Kong's liberty and democracy — Johnson says that his government, bound by "our profound ties of history and friendship with the people of Hong Kong," will allow all of those 3 million Hong Kongers the option of coming to the United Kingdom with the British version of a green card (renewable legal residency and permission to work) and a path to full citizenship for those who desire it.This is an almost heroic proposal. It is also a smart one.The United Kingdom is an astonishingly inventive and productive nation, and it punches above its weight both economically and, especially, culturally. But Hong Kong has long practiced a kind of supercharged version of British economic liberalism, and its people are even more productive than the British, with a GDP per capita about 15 percent higher than the United Kingdom's. You don't have a rich, smart, productive country without rich, smart, productive people, and Johnson is proposing to roll out the red carpet for 3 million of them.Because of Brexit, Johnson often is numbered among the recently ascendant right-wing populists, but while his European counterparts (and, unhappily, many of his American counterparts) rail against immigration and immigrants, Johnson's government would welcome a new group of immigrants who would by themselves equal about 4.5 percent of the current U.K. population.During the Cold War, defectors from the Eastern bloc were symbols of the fundamental difference between the free world and the unfree world, and people of good will cheered when some daring person successfully made it over the Berlin Wall. But the men and women fleeing the brutality of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany could do so only because there was a West Berlin for them to run to. Boris Johnson proposes that the United Kingdom play that role for the people of Hong Kong who are being oppressed by a government that in too many ways practices an updated version of socialism as it actually existed only a few decades ago, as opposed to the socialism of 10,000 dorm-room philosophers.Beijing is infuriated. The Chinese government accuses the United Kingdom of "interfering in China's internal affairs." But Beijing is bound by the Sino–British Joint Declaration regarding the liberty of Hong Kong, so the U.K. is not crashing the party. Johnson's government does not have the force to change Beijing's internal affairs, but it does have the power to make 3 million Hong Kong residents external affairs.Washington does, too. Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) the Senate majority leader, already has suggested that the United States implement something like what Johnson's government is doing. "Our nation has a rich heritage of standing as a beacon of light and freedom, from refugees of war to those escaping the Iron Curtain," McConnell said. "We should exercise it again for the people of Hong Kong."Some of our neo-Malthusian friends will insist that there is no room in the United States for these immigrants, that we are all full up, that there aren't enough jobs to go around as it is. But consider this: In the 1940s, Hong Kong was one of the poorest places in the world, hungry, depopulated, and war-ravaged. With very little in the way of natural resources, and starting without a great deal of modern infrastructure, Hong Kong grew to become the wealthiest city in the world. If Hong Kong were an independent country (and why not? It works for Singapore), it would be one of the world's wealthiest, a little ahead of the United States and just a step behind Switzerland. The people of Hong Kong did that with very little other than liberty, the rule of law, and a reasonably good location as a port. Why shouldn't those people thrive in the United States, with its abundant blessings? They can expect to thrive in the United Kingdom.The loss of liberty in Hong Kong is a jolting, unwelcome reminder that history does not move in one direction only, toward progress and human flourishing. Perhaps the city cannot be saved, for now. But the British proposal is both an act of practical aid and a splendid gesture. For the moment, it may be that the best that can be done is for the free world to declare that the people of Hong Kong live where freedom lives.Welcome home.
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| China could lose 95% of ballistic, cruise missiles under strategic arms control pact, says new analysis Posted: 05 Jun 2020 09:32 AM PDT |
| National Guard presence in San Diego County draws mixed reactions Posted: 05 Jun 2020 03:03 PM PDT  The decision to deploy 200 National Guard troops to San Diego County this week is being met with mixed opinions as some say they're needed while others argue their presence sends the wrong message.
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| Syria says Israeli jets flying over Lebanon raid military base in Hama province Posted: 04 Jun 2020 11:58 AM PDT |
| Magnitude 5.0 earthquake shakes southeast Turkey Posted: 05 Jun 2020 12:16 PM PDT |
| UN nuclear watchdog has 'serious concern' at Iran denying inspections Posted: 05 Jun 2020 10:34 AM PDT  Iran has now accumulated enriched uranium at nearly eight times the limit of a 2015 deal and has for months blocked inspections at sites where historic nuclear activity may have occurred, the UN watchdog said Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) noted "with serious concern that, for over four months, Iran has denied access to the Agency... to two locations," according to an IAEA report seen by AFP. The report said the IAEA has questions as to the possible "use or storage of nuclear material" at the two sites and that one of them "may have been used for the processing and conversion of uranium ore including fluorination in 2003".
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| Bollywood actors called out for protesting racism while promoting skin whitening creams Posted: 05 Jun 2020 01:58 PM PDT  Actors like Priyanka Chopra were slammed for posting in the wake of George Floyd's death despite advertising so-called "fairness" products in India.
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| COVID-19 Is a Symptom of a Bigger Problem: Our Planet’s Ailing Health Posted: 05 Jun 2020 05:00 AM PDT  On World Environment Day, Inger Andersen and Johan Rockström explain how the COVID-19 pandemic is a sign of bigger problems with the Earth.
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| Trump 'approves plan' to cut US troops in Germany Posted: 06 Jun 2020 07:35 AM PDT  The US president reportedly wants to reduce the number by 9,500, or more than a quarter.
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| Airlines braced for quarantine rules chaos Posted: 05 Jun 2020 05:51 PM PDT  Airlines and airports are bracing for chaos on Monday after they were issued with strict new quarantine rules on Friday afternoon, leaving them with a race to implement them. Passengers arriving in the UK must fill out an online form 48 hours before they travel. Operational guidance issued to airlines on how the 14-day quarantine will be administered, seen by The Telegraph, reveals those flying and airlines face hefty fines for failing to comply with the rules. A 23-page document was shared with bosses shortly before 4pm on Friday, with orders that the rules need to be in place by Monday morning. The timing of the Government edict is likely to further anger airlines. British Airways' parent company is considering legal action in an attempt to overturn quarantine on international arrivals to the UK. Willie Walsh, chief executive of IAG, said he was consulting lawyers about a legal challenge to protect airlines from an "irrational and disproportionate" measure that would wreck the aviation industry. Ryanair said it would support "any legal action launched by IAG against this ineffective quarantine." EasyJet is understood to have backed the legal challenge. The Luton-based airline declined to comment.
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| Bolsonaro defends later, partial release of Brazil COVID-19 data Posted: 06 Jun 2020 09:03 AM PDT  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday defended his government's move to partially withhold official data on the scale of the world's second-largest coronavirus outbreak. Late on Friday, Brazil's Health Ministry took down a website showing the evolution of the epidemic over time and by state and municipality. The ministry also stopped reporting a total tally of confirmed cases, which have shot past 645,000 – more than anywhere outside the United States – and its overall death toll, which just passed Italy with more than 35,000.
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| Buffalo police officers resign from unit in protest of suspended colleagues who shoved man, 75, to ground Posted: 05 Jun 2020 06:39 PM PDT  Video shows one or two officers appearing to push Martin Gugino, 75, who stumbles backward and falls to the ground. Seconds later, a pool of blood can be seen near his head.
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| Police union calls for boycott of local Philadelphia eatery Posted: 05 Jun 2020 06:24 AM PDT  Philadelphia police will be boycotting a popular coffee shop after apologizing for offering officers free lunch; John McNesby, President of the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #5, joins 'Fox and Friends.'
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| 'Rahul is a f---ing champ': The DC man who gave refuge to more than 70 protesters fleeing police and pepper spray is being heralded as a legend Posted: 06 Jun 2020 06:02 AM PDT  "If you're not black and you're not uncomfortable right now you're probably not doing enough," a protester said.
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| Do You Use Google Chrome’s Incognito Mode? You May Be Eligible for $5K Posted: 04 Jun 2020 03:00 PM PDT  That's a fair amount of money.
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| The White House praised the ‘courage’ of Chinese protesters who died in the Tiananmen Square massacre days after tear gas and rubber bullets were used against protesters in DC Posted: 05 Jun 2020 01:18 AM PDT  The statement praises Chinese protesters for their "courage and optimism." It doesn't address the violent police response against protesters in the US.
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| Indigenous deaths in custody: Why Australians are seizing on US protests Posted: 05 Jun 2020 08:15 AM PDT  The US riots have focused Australian attention on alarming numbers of Aboriginal deaths in custody.
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| Court in Crimea jails second Jehovah's Witness for six years Posted: 04 Jun 2020 10:42 AM PDT |
| New U.S. ban on Chinese airlines hurts Chinese students who were already struggling to get home Posted: 04 Jun 2020 10:08 AM PDT  The DOT has now banned Chinese airlines from the U.S., an added burden for Chinese students already stuck here because of their own government's policies.
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| The Latest: Buffalo police officers charged with assault Posted: 05 Jun 2020 11:04 PM PDT  — Washington DC expects largest demonstration yet for Floyd. BUFFALO, N.Y. — Prosecutors say two Buffalo police officers have been charged with assault after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old protester to the sidewalk. The two officers were suspended without pay Friday after a TV crew captured the confrontation the night before near the end of protests over the death of George Floyd.
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