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Tulsa imposes curfew ahead of Trump rally after warning of potential unrest

Law enforcement warned that members of “organized groups who have been involved in destructive and violent behavior in other states” may travel to the Oklahoma city for tomorrow’s event, the mayor said.

Tulsa rally site asks Trump campaign for coronavirus plan as top Okla. court hears suit to stop event

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A top State Dept. official resigns over Trump’s response to racial tensions

The resignation letter submitted by the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs served as an indictment of President Trump’s stewardship from one of the administration’s highest-ranking African Americans.
Hal Singer in a studio portrait in 1950. (Gilles Petard/Redferns)
Hal Singer in a studio portrait in 1950. (Gilles Petard/Redferns)
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The Past, Rediscovered

A renowned jazz musician is one of the last remaining survivors of Tulsa’s 1921 race massacre

Hal Singer, 100, was a toddler when a white mob descended on Tulsa’s all-black community of Greenwood and burned his home to the ground.
CORONAVIRUS

‘It really does feel like the U.S. has given up’: Experts in other nations alarmed by U.S. numbers

Whereas the U.S. response to the crisis has at times appeared disconnected from American scientists’ publicly available findings, U.S. researchers’ conclusions informed the actions of foreign governments.

People probably caught coronavirus from minks. That’s a wake-up call to study infections in animals, researchers say.

U.S. traffic has rebounded to about 90 percent of pre-pandemic levels, analysts say

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Ivania Castillo, a board member of CASA in Prince William County, Va., waves a flag outside the he Supreme Court Building. (Jonathan Newton/The Post)

Trump intends to renew effort to end DACA protections for young undocumented immigrants

In a morning tweet, President Trump seized on the fact that the 5-4 decision did not address the merits of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but rather said that the administration had not provided proper legal justification for ending it.
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Judge to hear Trump administration’s request to block Bolton’s book

The Justice Department argues that the former national security adviser disclosed classified secrets in his White House memoir, setting up a First Amendment showdown.

Former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says Trump ‘didn’t hire very well’

Mulvaney made that assessment during an interview on CNN on Friday morning when asked about the many high-ranking officials who have criticized the president after leaving his administration.
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Netflix’s ‘The Politician’ is back for another cynical run, but the snark attacks get tiresome

Rep. Matt Gaetz introduces Cuban-born teenager as his son on Fox News

The Florida Republican revealed he raised, but never formally adopted, a teenage boy after a heated exchange with Rep. Cedric L. Richmond (D-La.), who said white lawmakers couldn’t understand the worries of a person of color.

Kamala Harris wants America to turn protest into policy. Is she the one to make it happen?

As the country reckons with the future of policing in black communities, in many ways, Harris’s career stands at the nexus of that argument: between cries to “defund the police” and to compromise and legislate.
President Trump meets with China's President Xi Jinping at the start of their bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan last year. (Reuters)
President Trump meets with China's President Xi Jinping at the start of their bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan last year. (Reuters)
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Bolton revelations undercut Trump’s reelection message of toughness on China

The president has labeled Joe Biden as soft on China, but his former national security adviser says he caved to Xi Jinping on human rights issues.

Iraqi hospitals become nexus of infection as virus cases rise among doctors

The number of doctors with reported infections has jumped 56 percent since last week, raising the tally to 506 since the outbreak began in Iraq in March, according to the Iraqi Medical Association.

As U.S. tackles police brutality, Hong Kong is in denial

Official failure to acknowledge officers’ wrongdoing has led to a collapse in trust in the force, and a breakdown between the city’s leaders and those they govern.
Karamba Diaby, a member of the Bundestag who was born in Senegal, said he sees his community garden plot as a refuge. (Jens Schlueter/Getty Images)
Karamba Diaby, a member of the Bundestag who was born in Senegal, said he sees his community garden plot as a refuge. (Jens Schlueter/Getty Images)

Germany’s only black member of parliament says the country needs to face its racism

Karamba Diaby cautions that racism shouldn’t be dismissed as a problem of the far-right fringe.
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‘A moment of indescribable joy’: The history of Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating slavery’s end

It has its roots in the long-awaited moment of emancipation in Texas, where more than 250,000 enslaved black people received news on June 19, 1865 — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation — that they were free.

Health officials regain control of medical stockpile as White House shifts focus to reopening

Arizona wildfire grows to 150,000 acres, fifth-largest in state’s history

McDonald's is adding items back to its menu after limiting offerings during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic. (Damian Dovarganes/AP)
McDonald's is adding items back to its menu after limiting offerings during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic. (Damian Dovarganes/AP)

McDonald’s and other restaurant chains are changing their menus as the country reopens

The menu is getting larger at the golden arches as restaurants begin to reopen.

$600 billion rescue program is off to a rocky start

The Federal Reserve’s Main Street lending program is supposed to provide low-cost loans to small and mid-sized businesses. But small-business owners say they can’t find banks willing to do the loans.

These friends created a wildly popular Google doc about how to be an ally to the black community

Mississippi’s flag is the only one on the nation with the Confederate battle-flag symbol. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP)
Mississippi’s flag is the only one on the nation with the Confederate battle-flag symbol. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP)

NCAA bans championship events in Mississippi because of its flag

“There is no place in college athletics or the world for symbols or acts of discrimination and oppression,” said Michael V. Drake, Ohio State president and chair of the NCAA Board of Governors.

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D.C. to enter Phase 2 of virus recovery Monday

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Charles Simpkinson, 85, retired psychotherapist, dies after contracting coronavirus

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Berry Johnson, 10, holds a sign Friday at Freedom Plaza for the Black Students Matter rally organized by Educators for Equity. (Matt McClain/The Post)
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A military vehicle is parked on Friday near Black Lives Matter Plaza north of the White House. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Segregationist George Preston Marshall’s monument removed from RFK grounds

Events DC calls its removal of a statue of the founding Washington Redskins owner “a small and overdue step on the road to lasting equality and justice.”
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Protest-related pictures, videos, audio recordings and signs are being memorialized immediately in museums.
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