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Justices revive permit for pipeline under Appalachian Trail

By Mark Sherman, Associated Press

The Supreme Court is siding with energy companies and the Trump administration in paving the way for a critical permit for a proposed natural gas pipeline that would cross under the Appalachian Trail.

This city already rebuilt its police department. Did it work?

By Hari Sreenivasan, Leah Nagy, Jaywon Choe, Vika Aronson, Erica R. Hendry, Emily Carpeaux

Protesters across the country are continuing to fill the streets, looking to turn their outrage over police violence against black people into action. Many point to the city of Camden, New Jersey, as an example of what reforming a police…

WATCH: California attorney general offers police reforms

By Associated Press

In a news conference Monday, Becerra said the changes are based on recommendations made in January 2019 to reform the Sacramento Police Department.

WATCH: Minnesota governor marks 100th anniversary of Duluth lynching

By Associated Press

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz marked the 100th anniversary of a painful chapter in Duluth history by visiting a memorial to three black men lynched by a white mob.

Blame game breaks out over COVID-19 toll in nursing homes

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

A harrowing blame game with partisan overtones is breaking out over COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents. Older and frail, they represent a tiny slice of the population but a shockingly high proportion of pandemic deaths.

WATCH: Family of Rayshard Brooks pleads for justice and change after Atlanta killing

By Russ Bynum, Kate Brumback, Associated Press

The family of a black man killed in a scuffle with Atlanta police outside a fast food drive-through is pleading for nonviolent protests and policy changes to end future deaths in police custody.

U.S. revokes emergency use of malaria drugs to treat coronavirus

By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press

The Food and Drug Administration said the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are unlikely to be effective in treating the coronavirus.

SCOTUS rules LGBTQ people protected from job discrimination

By Mark Sherman, Associated Press

The court decided by a 6-3 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as Title VII that bars job discrimination because of sex, among other reasons, encompasses bias against LGBT workers.

American sentenced to 16 years in Russia on spying charges

By Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press

The Moscow City Court read out the conviction of Paul Whelan on charges of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum security prison.

Poll: Black Americans most likely to know a COVID-19 victim

By Kat Stafford, Hannah Fingerhut, Associated Press

Eleven percent of African Americans say they were close with someone who has died from the coronavirus, compared with 5% of Americans overall and 4% of white Americans.