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Derek Chauvin is alreadyin Minnesota’s only maximum-security prison, but it will be two months before he is sentenced in George Floyd’s death.
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The county failed to help the mentally ill, especially in a jail where dozens of people have committed suicide, federal authorities say.
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Relatives and friends of Andrew Brown Jr., who was fatally shot Wednesday, say he had a smile that belied a lifetime of loss and troubles with the law.
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NASA’s little Mars helicopter has aced its second test flight.
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An Atlanta officer’s attorney says his client didn’t get a chance to defend himself before he was fired for shooting Rayshard Brooks last June.
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Newly released video shows a white deputy in the Bay Area fatally shooting a Black man in the middle of a busy intersection about a minute after trying to stop him on suspicion of throwing rocks at cars.
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COVID-19 hospitalizations among older Americans have plunged more than 70% since the start of the year.
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Days after Chauvin verdict, relatives of George Floyd attend Daunte Wright funeral in Minneapolis.
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HUD is withdrawing a policy that would have allowed taxpayer-funded homeless shelters to deny access to transgender people.
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Some Latino parents fear for their lives as Los Angeles public schools reopen. If they get COVID-19, they wonder, who will care for their children?
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The royal intrigue between the tiny kingdom’s two half-brothers has enthralled the nation for weeks.
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A decades-long movement to reshape the American political map has taken an important step.
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Precious relics of Afghanistan’s ancient past are returning home even as the nation confronts deepening uncertainty about its future.
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Pregnant women with COVID-19 face a significantly higher risk of death and of complications for themselves or their newborns, a new study finds.
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Adam was a child. He was unarmed and had his hands up when he was shot dead by Chicago police in the predominantly Latinx neighborhood of Little Village.
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Russia has ordered its troops back to base after a massive exercise in Crimea that involved ships, warplanes and personnel amid tensions with Ukraine.
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An alternate juror in the trial of Derek Chauvin said she agreed with the jury’s decision to convict him in George Floyd’s death.
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It might be more expensive than traditional solar farms. But not everything is about money.
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Over 500 bills to limit abortion have been introduced in state legislatures this year as antiabortion lawmakers see opportunity in the Supreme Court.
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Minneapolis and the country lauded the guilty verdict against former Officer Derek Chauvin. The city has become a touchstone for what’s next in the movement for racial justice.
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Drew Pavlou’s battle against the University of Queensland illustrates China’s influence over a key U.S. ally.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. makes chips for iPhones, video game consoles and fighter jets. Now it’s being forced to choose sides.
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In U.S.-China dispute over missile defense system, Beijing punishes South Korea by restricting tourism and holding trade hostage.
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Beijing’s aggressive South China Sea expansion shows its willingness to defy international laws for President Xi Jinping’s visions of power.
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China’s paramount leader, Xi Jinping, sees himself as a savior, anointed to steer the Communist Party and China away from corruption and foreign influence, into a ‘new era’ of prosperity, power and political devotion. Whether his vision matches reality is another question.
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China’s oppression of Muslims reaches beyond Xinjiang into Pakistan. Why does it stay quiet?
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China’s ‘purification’ of classrooms: A new law erases history, silences teachers and rewrites books
China’s ‘purification’ of classrooms: A new law erases history, silences teachers and rewrites books
China’s crackdown on Hong Kong is purging teachers, rewriting textbooks and increasing pressure on schools over what to put in the minds of students. A new national security law has endangered freedom of thought and expression.
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Derek Chauvin is alreadyin Minnesota’s only maximum-security prison, but it will be two months before he is sentenced in George Floyd’s death.
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Indonesia’s navy is intently searching for a submarine that likely sank too deep to retrieve, making survival chances slim for the 53 people on board.
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Police body-camera video indicates that a Columbus, Ohio, officer fatally shot a Black teenage girl who swung at two other people with a knife.
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Armed Black groups like the Minnesota Freedom Fighters work to protect the streets as calls for racial justice mount.
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The drop in foreign orders is devastating workers in the Southeast Asian country, which counts on the garment industry for 40% of its economic output. Those still employed now fear contracting COVID-19 inside cramped factories.
