Jun 15 Mexico president would sell gas to Venezuela if asked despite U.S. sanctions By Associated Press Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he'd be willing to sell gasoline to Venezuela despite U.S. sanctions against the South American nation. López Obrador said Monday there's been no request, but he'd be willing to sell gasoline for humanitarian… Continue reading
Jun 15 France backs off chokehold ban, adds stun guns for police By Arno Pedram, Lori Hinnant, Associated Press France's government is testing stun guns for wider use and backing off a ban on police chokeholds after French police staged protests around the country last week. The government says it will allow chokeholds until a better immobilization tactic emerges,… Continue reading
Jun 15 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. Continue reading
Jun 15 WATCH: New York's Cuomo offers coronavirus update By Associated Press On Sunday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo decried “rampant” violations of virus restrictions and threatened to reinstate business closings in areas where local governments failed to enforce the rules. Watch Monday's news conference here. Continue reading
Jun 15 WATCH: Trump holds roundtable called 'Fighting for America's Seniors' By Candice Norwood President Donald Trump will hold a roundtable discussion with senior citizens. Continue reading
Jun 15 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. Continue reading
Jun 14 Trump executive order on police reform expected to include use of force guidelines, misconduct tracker, source says By Yamiche Alcindor Amid nationwide protests, the president's executive order is expected to include the creation of national standards for police use-of-force as well as for tracking police misconduct, according to a civil rights lawyer who plans to be at the signing and… Continue reading
Jun 14 Watch 5:28 Atlanta rocked by police shooting of black man Protests in Atlanta continued Sunday over the death of Rayshard Brooks, a black man who was fatally shot by a white police officer in a Wendy’s parking lot on Friday night. The shooting has led to the firing of that… Continue watching
Jun 14 Watch 3:06 A firsthand account of this pivotal moment in history By KCET Ongoing protests demanding police reform and racial justice continue to spread around the world after the death of George Floyd in Minnesota last month. Isaac Bryan, a civil rights activist and director of public policy at UCLA's Bunche Center, gives… Continue watching
Jun 14 US base namesakes include slaveholders, failed generals By Dan Sewell, Associated Press The 10 generals include some who made costly battlefield blunders; others mistreated captured Union soldiers, some were slaveholders and one was linked to the Ku Klux Klan after the war. Continue reading