Media firms, celebrities join BlackOut Tuesday protests
Major broadcasters, celebrities and music streaming companies including Apple Music and Spotify turned off or made changes to their services on Tuesday to mark their solidarity with protests against the killing of George Floyd.
U.S. House speaker Pelosi: legislation soon addressing racial profiling
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday that decisions would be made “in just a short period of time” on legislation to address racial profiling and actions by police, amid days of mass protests in the United States.
U.S. opens national security probe into vanadium imports
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Tuesday it was opening an investigation into whether imports of vanadium, a metal used in aerospace, defense and energy applications, impair U.S. national security.
Five police officers shot, wounded in U.S. protests
At least five U.S. police officers were shot and wounded during violent protests over the death of a black man in police custody, police and media said, hours after President Donald Trump vowed to deploy the military if unrest did not stop.
‘Wake-up call:’ Biden vows to heal U.S. racial wounds as protests against police rage
In his first major address in weeks, former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday will vow not to “fan the flames of hate” if elected president and instead seek “to heal the racial wounds that have long plagued” the United States.
Special Report: U.S. school closures dramatically shrinking public education, Reuters finds
Jennifer Panditaratne’s third-grade daughter had been seeing a reading specialist once a week before her Florida school closed abruptly in March due to the novel coronavirus.
Exclusive: U.S. small business program handed out virus aid to many borrowers twice
A technical snafu in a U.S. government system caused many small businesses to receive loans twice or more under a federal aid program to help businesses hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly a dozen people with knowledge of the matter said.
U.S. protests point to long-standing racial inequalities – U.N. rights boss
Protests in U.S. cities triggered by the killing of George Floyd underscore “police violence” against people of colour, and historic inequalities in access to health, education and jobs, the top United Nations human rights official said on Tuesday.
Trade war tradeoff: How a Missouri town got America’s dirtiest air
The residents of New Madrid County cheered in 2018 when a bankrupt aluminum smelter that rises over the Missouri region’s vast farm fields restarted operations and hiring, thanks to aluminum tariffs levied in President Donald Trump’s trade war.
Bank of America pledges $1 billion to address racial, economic inequality
Bank of America Corp on Tuesday pledged $1 billion to help communities across the country address economic and racial inequality, the first big bank to vow monetary support following violent protests after the death of an unarmed black man at the hands…
