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Some Minneapolis activists doubt disbanding police will work
George Floyd’s death was the breaking point for some Minneapolis civic leaders, who now say the only way to fix the city’s embattled police department is to take it apart....
State of Minnesota files civil rights charge against police department in George Floyd’s death
The state of Minnesota filed a human rights complaint Tuesday against the Minneapolis Police Department in the death of George Floyd by an officer who pressed his knee into Floyd’s...
George Floyd asphyxiated by sustained pressure, family autopsy says
An autopsy commissioned for George Floyd鈥檚 family found that he died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression when a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Floyd鈥檚 neck...
Minneapolis cop who knelt on handcuffed black man arrested
MINNEAPOLIS 鈥� The police officer seen on video kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died in custody after pleading that he could not breathe,...
Minneapolis police station torched amid George Floyd protest
Cheering protesters torched a Minneapolis police station that the department abandoned as three days of violent protests spread to nearby St. Paul and angry demonstrations flared across the U.S over...
Four Minneapolis officers fired after death of black man
Four Minneapolis officers involved in the arrest of a black man who died in police custody were fired Tuesday, hours after a bystander's video provoked widespread outrage with footage that...
20,000: U.S. death toll overtakes Italy鈥檚 as Midwest braces
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy's for the highest in the world Saturday at about 20,000, as Chicago and other cities across the Midwest braced for a...
AP poll shows most Americans feel grateful during the holidays — and stressed
While positive feelings are dominant, feelings of festivity and gratitude are accompanied by stress or sadness for many Americans.
Wisconsin man who kidnapped teen Jayme Closs after killing her parents sentenced to life
A Wisconsin man was sentenced Friday to life in prison for kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents in a case that mystified authorities for months until the girl...
“Empire” star Terrence Howard supports Jussie Smollett with post
Actor Terrence Howard, who plays the father of Jussie Smollett's character on "Empire," has expressed support for his fellow cast member amid allegations that Smollett staged a racist, anti-gay attack...