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AP POLL-AMERICA PROTESTS — Ahead of the Juneteenth holiday demonstrations against systemic racism and police brutality, a majority of Americans said they approve of recent protests around the country. Many think they will bring positive change to the nation, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. By Aaron Morrison and Hannah Fingerhut. SENT: 990 words, photos, graphic.
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AMERICA-PROTESTS — Protesters marched over the Brooklyn Bridge, chanted “We want justice now!” near St. Louis’ Gateway Arch, prayed in Atlanta and paused for a moment of silence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, as Americans marked Juneteenth with new urgency amid protests to demand racial justice. By Jonathan Mattise, Phil Marcelo and Michelle R. Smith. SENT: 1,000 words, photos. UPCOMING: Developing. With AMERICA PROTESTS-THE LATEST. Also see MORE ON AMERICA PROTESTS below.
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ELECTION 2020-IMMIGRATION — The Supreme Court’s rejection of one of President Donald Trump’s key immigration measures injects another hot-button issue into a presidential campaign already upended by a pandemic, economic collapse and protests. That has risks for both Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden. By Will Weissert and Zeke Miller. SENT: 970 words, photos.
SUPREME COURT-IMMIGRATION — President Donald Trump says he will renew his administration’s effort to end legal protections for young immigrants after Supreme Court blocked the first try. By Astrid Galvan and Deb Reichmann. SENT: 1,000 words, photos, videos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK — As the coronavirus spreads deeper across America, it is ravaging through Latino communities from the mid-Atlantic to the Southwest, infecting them at alarmingly high rates and amplifying the inequalities they live with. Latinos are especially vulnerable to infection because they tend to live in tight quarters with multiple family members and have jobs that expose them to others. By Regina Garcia Cano, Anita Snow and Bryan Anderson. SENT: 1,240 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-AIRCRAFT CARRIER — In a stunning reversal, the Navy has upheld the firing of the aircraft carrier captain who urged faster action to protect his crew from a coronavirus outbreak, the Navy’s top officer said. Adm. Mike Gilday, the chief of naval operations, also extended the blame for the ship’s pandemic crisis, delaying the promotion of the one-star admiral who was also onboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt — concluding that both men made serious errors in judgment. By Lolita C. Baldor and Robert Burns. SENT: 1,020 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-NURSING-HOMES — Nursing home residents account for nearly 1 in 10 of all the coronavirus cases in the United States and more than a quarter of the deaths, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data. SENT: 910 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-TRUMP-VIRUS POLITICS — President Donald Trump’s defiant push to resume big rallies this weekend despite concern that he is putting public health at risk is part of a larger campaign effort to turn the national conversation about the coronavirus into a battle of “US vs. THEM.” By Aamer Madhani. SENT: 920 words, photos.
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AMERICA PROTESTS-KENTUCKY — Louisville’s mayor says one of three police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor will be fired. SENT: 400 words. Developing.
US TRUMP RALLY — The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected a request to require everyone attending President Trump’s rally in Tulsa this weekend to wear a face mask and maintain social distancing inside the arena to guard against the spread of the coronavirus. SENT: 1,100 words, photos.
UN-HUMAN RIGHTS-RACISM — The United Nations’ top human rights body has agreed unanimously to commission a report on systemic racism and discrimination against Africans and people of African descent. SENT: 910 words, photos.
AMERICA PROTESTS-JUNETEENTH-NEW YORK — New York City’s mayor says Juneteenth will be become an official holiday for city workers and schoolchildren next year, and the city will form a new commission to examine its history of racial discrimination. SENT: 300 words.
FORMOSA PLASTICS-SLAVE CEMETERIES — Community and environmental groups held a Juneteenth ceremony at a Louisiana site archaeologists have described as probably a cemetery for enslaved Africans Americans when the land was a plantation. SENT: 500 words, photos.
AMERICA PROTESTS-COLORADO — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has signed into law a broad police accountability bill passed amid protests over the death of George Floyd. SENT: 160 words.
AMERICA-PROTESTS-SCHOOL-CURRICULUM — A national conversation on racial injustice is bringing new scrutiny to how African American history is taught in schools around the country. SENT: 880 words, photos.
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT-GEORGIA — With hundreds of people watching as midnight approached, a crane moved in and took down a Confederate monument that stood in the town square of an Atlanta suburb since 1908. SENT: 490 words, photos.
TWINS-GRIFFITH STATUE — The Minnesota Twins have removed a statue of former owner Calvin Griffith at Target Field, citing racist remarks he made in 1978. SENT: 720 words, photos.
AMERICAN PROTESTS-NETHERLANDS-STATUE — Activists spurred by the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States are seeking to shed more light on the Dutch colonial past and tackle what they call ingrained racism and discrimination in this nation that was once known as a beacon of tolerance. SENT: 860 words, photos.
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APPLE-STORE CLOSURES — Apple is temporarily closing 11 stores in Arizona, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina just few weeks after reopening them in hopes that consumers would be able to shop in them without raising the risk of coronavirus infections. SENT: 790 words, photo.
FILM-AMC THEATERS-MASK POLICY — The nation’s largest movie theater chain will require patrons to wear masks when it reopens, changing its position less than a day after the company became a target on social media for saying it would defer to local governments on the issue. SENT: 370 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-GLOBAL — Britain has lowered its coronavirus threat level by one notch and become the latest country to claim it’s getting a national outbreak under control. By Jill Lawless and Frank Jordans. SENT: 1,030 words, photos. With VIRUS OUTBREAK-THE LATEST.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-FEEDING NEIGHBORS — “Community pots” have become ubiquitous across Peru recently as coronavirus quarantines and shutdowns leave millions of poor people with no way to feed their families. SENT: 780 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-JAPAN REOPENS — The roller coasters are back running in Tokyo but with requests to not scream. Restaurants are offering more take-out and outdoor seating. Japan’s economy is opening cautiously, with social-distancing restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 670 words, photos.
TSA-WHISTLEBLOWER — A high-ranking Transportation Security Administration official says the agency is falling short when it comes to protecting airport screeners and the public from the new coronavirus. SENT: 440 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-ONE-GOOD-THING-NATIVE YOUTH — Montana’s Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are taking a unique approach to raising awareness of the coronavirus pandemic among their youngest members. Tribal leaders on the Flathead Reservation in northwestern Montana are soliciting the help of local musicians to convince young people to adhere to COVID-19 safety precautions. SENT: 600 words, photos.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-DIARY-DAD'S-BACKPACK — Father’s Day is approaching. And one writer is reflecting on how the pandemic hit and her husband suddenly became a full-time dad to their two young kids. SENT: 600 words, photo.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-CANADA-NHL HOCKEY — Canada has approved a National Hockey League plan to play in Canada amid the coronavirus pandemic. The plan required an exemption as the U.S.-Canada border is currently closed to all non-essential travel until at least July 21 and those who enter Canada must self-isolate for 14 days. SENT: 150 words.
VIRUS-OUTBREAK-LIVES-LOST-SOUTH-AFRICAN-ACTIVIST — A South African activist and doctor who died of COVID-19 spent his life fighting apartheid, the government’s denial of HIV/AIDS and rampant corruption. SENT: 910 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-SOUTH AFRICA-YOUTH CHOIR — The dusty streets of rural South Africa are a far cry from the bright lights of “America’s Got Talent,” but that’s where the members of the Ndlovu Youth Choir find themselves coping with the coronavirus pandemic. SENT: 670 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-ASIA — South Korea reports 49 cases of COVID-19 as the virus continues to spread in the densely populated capital area where half of the country’s 51 million people live. SENT: 680 words, photos.
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NCAA-CONFEDERATE FLAG — NCAA: No championships in states with confederate symbol. SENT: 80 words, photo.
BRITAIN-MALALA — Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager once shot by the Taliban for daring to want an education, has completed her degree at Oxford University. SENT: 240 words, photos.
DEADLY KANSAS CRASH — Sheriff’s office: 6 killed in fiery head-on crash in Kansas. SENT: 100 words.
BRITAIN-OBIT-IAN HOLM — ‘Chariots of Fire,’ ‘Lord of the Rings’ actor Ian Holm dies. SENT: 450 words, photos.
TRUMP-TWITTER — Twitter flags Trump’s tweet of doctored ‘racist baby’ video. SENT: 260 words, photo.
INTO THE WILD BUS — “Into the Wild” bus removed from Alaska backcountry. SENT: 410 words, photos, video.
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ELECTION 2020-VP — Joe Biden is facing growing calls to select a Black woman as his running mate as an acknowledgement of their critical role in the Democratic Party and a response to the nationwide protests against racism and inequality. SENT: 990 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-TRUMP-VOTING — President Donald Trump says that mail-in voting presents the greatest threat to his reelection hopes and he suggested that legal efforts in several states launched by his allies might decide November’s election. SENT: 330 words, photos.
BOLTON BOOK-LEGAL CHALLENGE — A federal judge on Friday criticized former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton for moving to publish his book without formal clearance from the White House, but the judge suggested he was probably powerless to stop its release given that copies of the manuscript have already been widely distributed. By Eric Tucker. SENT: 850 words, photos.
TRUMP-TRANSGENDER HEALTH — The Trump administration is moving ahead with a rule that rolls back health care protections for transgender people, even after a Supreme Court ruling this week that protects the LGBT community against discrimination on the job. By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar. SENT: 790 words, photos.
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PAKISTAN — Police in Pakistan say a roadside bomb and a hand-grenade attack targeting security vehicles hours apart have killed at least four people in the country’s south. SENT: 250 words.
BELARUS-POLITICS — Belarus’ authoritarian president says that his government has thwarted a foreign-inspired plot to to destabilize the ex-Soviet nation ahead of the August presidential election in which he is seeking a sixth term. SENT: 500 words, photos.
INDIA-CHINA-HIMALAYAN STANDOFF — India’s prime minister is meeting top opposition leaders as the government tries to lower tensions with China after 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a clash in a Himalayan border region. SENT: 820 words, photos. With CHINA-INDIA — China says it has not seized any Indian soldiers; INDIA-CHINA-CASHMERE — Himalayan standoff deadly for cashmere herds (both sent).
KOREAS-TENSIONS — South Korean President Moon Jae-in accepts the resignation of his point man on North Korea, who had asked to quit after the North destroyed a liaison office while ramping up pressure against Seoul amid stalled nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration. SENT: 740 words, photos.
CHINA-DETAINED-CANADIANS — Chinese prosecutors charge two detained Canadians with spying in an apparent bid to step up pressure on Canada to drop a U.S. extradition request for a Huawei executive under house arrest in Vancouver. SENT: 540 words, photos.
EUROPEAN-SUMMIT — European Union leaders have found that a quick deal on the bloc’s future long-term budget and a multibillion-euro post-pandemic recovery plan remains beyond their reach as the coronavirus ravages their economies. SENT: 640 words, photos.
AUSTRALIA-CYBERATTACK — “A sophisticated state-based cyber actor” was targeting Australia in an escalating cyber campaign that is threatening all levels of government, businesses, essential services and critical infrastructure, the prime minister says. SENT: 560 words, photo.
YEMEN-AID — The last of three large shipments of medical supplies land in Yemen, organizers of the cargo flights say, following a joint initiative by the world organization and multinational corporations to boost the war-devastated country’s health care system as it battles the coronavirus. SENT: 660 words, photos.
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JUNETEENTH-FAITH COMMUNITIES — In years past, Christopher Johnson saw Juneteenth as a celebration, a symbol that African Americans had moved past the “stain” of racism and slavery. But this year the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and Rayshard Brooks at the hands of law enforcement and neighborhood vigilantes have turned the holiday into a time of reflection, the co-pastor of Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Houston said. SENT: 700 words, photos.
2020-CENSUS — Halfway through the extended effort to count every U.S. resident, civil rights leaders worry that minority communities are falling behind in responding to the 2020 census. With outreach efforts to motivate minority responses upended by a global pandemic, both the National Urban League and the NALEO Educational Fund are sounding the alarm that communities with concentrations of blacks and Hispanics have been trailing the rest of the nation in answering the census questionnaire. SENT: 620 words, photos.
POLICE KILLING-ATLANTA — Atlanta police officers call out sick to protest the filing of murder charges against an officer who shot a man in the back, while the interim chief acknowledged members of the force feel abandoned amid protests demanding massive changes to policing. By Kate Brumback. SENT: 1,220 words, photos, videos.
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JUNETEENTH-COMPANIES — A unprecedented number of U.S. companies are giving employees off for Juneteenth this year. The trend has been inspired in large part by the Black Lives Matters protests and has raised hopes that the day commemorating the end of slavery could someday become a true national celebration. SENT: 850 words, photos.
CALIFORNIA-WILDFIRES-UTILITY — A federal judge has approved a $58 billion plan by the nation’s largest utility to end a contentious bankruptcy saga that began after Pacific Gas & Electric’s outdated equipment ignited wildfires in California that killed more than 100 people, wiped out entire towns and led the company to confess to crimes driven by its greed and neglect. SENT: 920 words, photos.
STATE UNEMPLOYMENT — Employers added jobs in 46 states last month, evidence that the U.S. economy’s surprise hiring gain in May was spread broadly across the country — in both states that began reopening their economies early and those that did so only later. SENT: 300 words, photo.
FINANCIAL-MARKETS — Wall Street stocks ended lower after a rise in virus cases in swaths of the South and West led Apple to temporarily close some stores. SENT: 610 words, photos.
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AMERICA PROTESTS-ARETHA FRANKLIN — A never-before-heard solo version of the late Aretha Franklin’s riveting and powerful collaboration with Mary J. Blige about faith and race, 2006’s “Never Gonna Break My Faith,” has arrived on Juneteenth. By Music Writer Mesfin Fekadu. SENT: 410 words, photo.
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