• Ukrainian refugee's murder becomes flashpoint in 2026 North Carolina Senate race

    Ukrainian refugee's murder becomes flashpoint in 2026 North Carolina Senate race

    Sep 22, 2025 05:44 PM EST

    ... commission he created in June 2020 to address racial inequity in the criminal justice system. The panel’s unveiling occurred weeks following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. But Cooper’s campaign said Whatley, a recent Republican National Committee chairman, was lying about the task ...

  • Trump wants to designate antifa as 'a major terrorist organization.' Can he do that?

    Trump wants to designate antifa as 'a major terrorist organization.' Can he do that?

    Sep 19, 2025 03:23 PM EST

    ... t the first time Trump has said he wants to designate antifa as a terrorist organization. He said it in 2020, after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. Back then, politicians, pundits and social media posts blamed antifa, saying it had picked fights with police and looted ...

  • House turns back effort to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar over remarks about Charlie Kirk

    House turns back effort to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar over remarks about Charlie Kirk

    Sep 18, 2025 03:13 PM EST

    ... viciously on social media. Mace has said Omar, an immigrant who criticized Kirk's views of gun ownership and race relations in the aftermath of George Floyd's 2020 death in Minneapolis, should be deported to Somalia. Omar was born in Somalia and became a U.S. citizen in 2000 ...

  • Tim Walz says he’ll seek a third term as Minnesota’s governor

    Tim Walz says he’ll seek a third term as Minnesota’s governor

    Sep 16, 2025 06:28 PM EST

    ... for abortion and transgender rights. But he also faced renewed criticism from the right for his handling of the unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 and a $300 million pandemic food aid fraud case. Republicans are sure to use that case and newer revelations ...

  • Firings over callous remarks on Kirk’s killing spark debate on limits of free speech

    Firings over callous remarks on Kirk’s killing spark debate on limits of free speech

    Sep 15, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    I remember all this happening after the tragic murder of George Floyd. There was a lot of nervousness about -- quote, unquote -- "cancel culture" or making sure that, if you didn't have the right view about Floyd's death, you couldn't hold a position at a public university or ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on Americans’ reactions to the killing of Charlie Kirk

    Brooks and Capehart on Americans’ reactions to the killing of Charlie Kirk

    Sep 12, 2025 10:30 PM EST

    Another step. In the hours after Kirk was killed, I started getting e-mails and texts from my friends who were supporters of the president. And a couple of them said independently, this is our George Floyd. And they didn't mean that literally, but in terms of emotional reaction ...

  • How Charlie Kirk helped shape a conservative force for a new generation

    How Charlie Kirk helped shape a conservative force for a new generation

    Sep 11, 2025 07:32 PM EST

    Kirk frequently repeated Trump’s false claims that former Vice President Kamala Harris was directly responsible for all immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally. He called George Floyd, a Black man whose death by a Minneapolis police officer sparked a national debate over racial injustice, a “scumbag.” He ...

  • How the Curry and King families are working to unite communities through service

    How the Curry and King families are working to unite communities through service

    Sep 10, 2025 10:25 PM EST

    ... called diversity, equity and inclusion, saying that our country will be "woke no more." In a backlash against the 2020 protests over the murder of George Floyd, DEI programs have been dismantled across corporations, higher education, and the federal government. And Trump has sought to roll back protections offered by ...

  • Charlie Kirk, who helped build support for Trump among young people, killed at age 31

    Charlie Kirk, who helped build support for Trump among young people, killed at age 31

    Sep 10, 2025 08:56 PM EST

    ... questions from the Jan. 6 subcommittee. Also in 2021, as he stepped up criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement on college campuses, Kirk called George Floyd, the Black man whose 2020 murder at the hands of Minneapolis police sparked protests that roiled Trump's last full year in office ...

  • In Minneapolis, a series of shootings and the grim realities of a tough summer

    In Minneapolis, a series of shootings and the grim realities of a tough summer

    Aug 29, 2025 04:21 PM EST

    ... spike in violence in Minneapolis Even as most categories of crime continue to fall in Minneapolis after a surge that followed the 2020 killing of George Floyd, the season has seen a spike in violence that repeatedly led to armored vehicles being seen rolling through the streets carrying police in ...