As George Floyd said he was going to die, officer said his pleas were using up oxygen, transcripts show
Floyd repeatedly asked police officers not to shoot him and complained of being claustrophobic in the minutes before he was killed in May, according to transcripts of police body camera footage released Wednesday.
Facebook’s auditors said its policy decisions are ‘tremendous setback’
Among the problems cited by the civil rights auditors hired by the company was its choice to leave untouched several posts by President Trump.
Man who allegedly drove car into Seattle demonstration, killing protester, charged with homicide
It was one of dozens of car attacks since the death of George Floyd sparked widespread protests on the nation's streets.
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Perspective What the ‘black-on-black crime’ fallacy misses about race and gun deaths
The majority of U.S. gun deaths are not homicides but suicides, and white men account for 74 percent of them.
U.S. health-care workers are running short on masks, gowns and gloves. Again.
In a frustrating recurrence of a struggle that haunted the first months of the crisis, the workers on the front lines are scrambling for supplies, reusing masks and keeping some medical offices closed.
Emma Asch wipes the counter in May at the American Eagle/Aerie store at Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio. (Andrew Spear for The Post)
Retail workers are being pulled into the latest culture war: Getting customers to wear masks
Mixed messaging and politicization have turned a public health safeguard into a lightning-rod issue. As a result, workers have been berated, even assaulted, by aggressive anti-maskers.
CDC will issue new guidance on schools, Pence says, after Trump criticism
In a tweet, President Trump described the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention guidelines as “very impractical.” and said he would meet with the agency about them.
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