Month: June 2020

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Members of the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board are calling for the resignation of a fellow member after a viral video showed her being criticized for her defense of a school named after Robert E. Lee and for what appeared to be her online shopping at a hearing over renaming it. “We the members

Hundreds of devotees are expected to participate in one of India’s most celebrated religious processions Tuesday, after the country’s highest court ruled that the annual spectacle could go ahead in a limited capacity despite the high coronavirus risk. The annual Rath Yatra festival takes place in various cities around the country — but the most

An online petition demanding justice for George Floyd has gathered more than 18 million signatures since last month. It’s the most signed petition on Change.org but far from the only one online. Thousands have signed for justice in Breonna Taylor’s case too. Others have showed their support in renaming the city of Columbus, Ohio. And

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Firefighters are battling multiple blazes throughout Arizona this week including the Bush Fire, which is now the fifth largest in the state’s history. Fueled by hot, dry weather and tall grass, the human-caused Bush Fire has torn through 186,000 acres northeast of Phoenix, according to the Inciweb Incident Report. Since the fire started ten days

An additional 120 million children in South Asia could be pushed into poverty due to the continuing spread of coronavirus throughout much of the region, according to a new report released by the United Nations children’s agency. South Asia, which is home to roughly one quarter of the world’s population, has seen a rapid acceleration

Employees from a Southern California sheriff’s and district attorney’s office were among three people who were arrested after multiple people were caught on a security camera vandalizing a Black Lives Matter sign, authorities said. The “BLM” sign, which was displayed on a homeowner’s fence in Thousand Oaks, California, was damaged and removed several times, according

The former Atlanta police officer accused of fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks was involved in a 2015 incident where a black man was presumably shot by officers during a car chase and arrest, according to court records and police incident reports obtained by CNN. Garrett Rolfe, currently facing felony murder and other charges for shooting and

A professor from Laney College in Oakland has been placed on administrative leave after asking a student to “Anglicize” her name. On the second day of class, Laney College mathematics professor Matthew Hubbard asked Phuc Bui Diem Nguyen to “Anglicize” her name because “Phuc Bui sounds like an insult in English,” Hubbard told Nguyen in

The New York police officer who appeared to put a man into a chokehold on video has had previous complaints against him involving use of force, according to records provided to CNN by the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. The officer, David Afanador, was suspended without pay after the video surfaced. He has been with

The United States has spoken out forcefully against China’s prosecution of two Canadian men for spying. In a statement Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington was “extremely concerned” about the decision to file espionage charges against Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who have been detained in China since 2018. “These charges are politically

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo signed an executive order Monday that could change the state’s official name to exclude a portion that has ties to slavery. The state’s official name is “the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” and the “Providence Plantations” portion has come under scrutiny in the aftermath of protests following the