

Nation Jun 04

It was not the coronavirus that killed Floyd, the family's attorney Ben Crump said, but the “pandemic of racism and discrimination.”…
By Aaron Morrison, Associated Press
Health Jun 04

Mourners at George Floyd’s memorial service are standing for 8 minutes, 46 seconds, a span that has become a potent symbol of police brutality.
By Associated Press
Nation Jun 04

The Rev. Al Sharpton says George Floyd’s story has been the story of black people in America, and that he died not from common health conditions, but from a malfunction of the criminal justice system.
By Associated Press
Nation Jun 04

The painting of George Floyd hanging above his golden coffin, where mourners knelt and cried, paused and prayed at his memorial service has a simple message: "I can breathe now."…
By Aaron Morrison, Associated Press
In our news wrap Thursday, the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., lay in state in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall as fellow lawmakers, friends and families paid their respects. Leaders from both parties remembered Cummings as a man of strong…
Dec 01

By Associated Press
Former President George H.W. Bush will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda next week.
From Oval Office to Disaster Site, Presidents Offer Compassion After Catastrophe…
In other news Thursday, the death toll from a collapsed garment building in Bangladesh rose above 230 people. Officials say some 2,000 people survived. An unknown number of people are still trapped. Also, hundreds of mourners attended a memorial service…
'You Will Run Again': Messages of Mourning and Hope for Boston After Attack…
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