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George Floyd police reform bill doomed as US Senate talks collapse
[WASHINGTON] A bipartisan effort spurred by the death of George Floyd to pass a police reform bill in Congress has collapsed, US lawmakers said on Wednesday, in a setback for President Joe Biden.
Dramatic week of testimony in George Floyd murder trial
[WASHINGTON] The opening week of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, facing murder and manslaughter charges for the death of George Floyd, has featured dramatic and emotional...
Trial of ex-cop accused of George Floyd killing to begin in March
[WASHINGTON] The trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin - charged with murdering African American man George Floyd - will begin as scheduled March 8, but his co-defendants will appea...
George Floyd said officers would 'kill' him in new recording transcript
[WASHINGTON] George Floyd said he couldn't breathe more than 20 times, called out for his children and late mother and said officers would "kill" him before he died in Minneapolis police custody, new ...
US soccer league restarts with sombre ceremony, new virus fears
[MIAMI] Major League Soccer returned from its four-month shutdown on Wednesday with a sombre anti-racism demonstration and fresh fears another coronavirus-stricken team may be forced to withdraw.
Facebook ad boycott campaign to go global, organisers say
[NEW YORK] Organisers of a Facebook advertising boycott campaign that has drawn support from a rapidly expanding list of major companies are now preparing to take the battle global to increase pressur...
US House poised for vote on Democratic police reform bill
[WASHINGTON] The Democratic-led US House of Representatives is expected to vote on sweeping police reform legislation on Thursday, amid concern that efforts to rein in police misconduct after the deat...
'Civil rights isn't over': Americans mark Juneteenth coast to coast
[ATLANTA] Thousands marched through US cities on Friday in Juneteenth observances marking the abolition of slavery more than a century and a half ago, an occasion freighted with special resonance this...
New York police to disband plain-clothes unit
[NEW YORK] America's largest police force, the NYPD, is to disband its plain-clothes anti-crime unit, its commissioner said Monday, as calls for police reform spread across the United States following...
'Guardians not warriors': Atlanta mayor orders police reforms
[ATLANTA] The mayor of Atlanta ordered immediate police reforms on Monday after the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in the US city sparked further outrage over the deaths of Af...
