Ex-defense secretary blasts Trump for his threats to use troops in U.S.
Jim Mattis’s extraordinary criticism marked a significant shift for the retired Marine general who said he felt it was his duty to stay out of politics.
Barr seeks to subdue D.C. protests by ‘flooding the zone’ with federal firepower
The attorney general is directing President Trump’s response to violent protests from a command center in downtown Washington.
Murder charges filed against all 4 officers in George Floyd’s death as protests against biased policing continue
Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng have been charged with aiding and abetting unintentional second-degree murder. Derek Chauvin now faces a second-degree murder charge.
(Matt McClain/The Post)
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Scenes of protests across the nation and around the world
Charges against the officers in George Floyd's death did little to quell demonstrations nationwide, including in D.C., Minneapolis and Houston, as well across the globe.
Analysis
A dangerous new factor in an uneasy moment: Unidentified law enforcement officers
Identification is needed to hold law enforcement officers accountable for their actions. The public also needs to know how someone is authorized to enforce the law in any given situation.
Virginia governor to announce plans to remove statue of Robert E. Lee in state capital, a target in protests
Lee is the only one of the five Confederate figures along Richmond’s Monument Avenue that is owned by the state. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) has supported removal since the deadly Unite the Right white-supremacist rally in 2017, but he had long deferred to local sentiment.
Scores of testing sites forced to close because of vandalism in civil unrest
At least 70 testing locations across the country have had to close because of destruction, according to figures compiled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Florida’s largest majority-black city was doing well. Then came the coronavirus.
Miami Gardens has seen almost 20 years of economic gains, but residents fear the pandemic now threatens progress and health.
People in face masks hold boxes of food distributed by the government during a lockdown on the outskirts of Quito, Ecuador. (AP)
Workers carry the coffin of Flavio Juarez, a 50-year-old man who died after contracting the coronavirus, at a cemetery on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. (AP)
Mexican Red Cross paramedics rush a patient suspected of being infected with the coronavirus into a Mexico City hospital. (AFP/Getty Images)
Latin America had time to prepare for the coronavirus. It couldn’t stop the inevitable.
Early in the pandemic, when Latin America was mostly a spectator to global outbreaks, there was hope that when the virus arrived there, things would be different. Weeks later, more than a million people have been infected, tens of thousands are dead, and those hopes are gone.
Guide to the pandemic
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