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The Rev. Jerry Falwell Jr. has come up with a solution to what he views as an objectionable mask mandate in Virginia: put Gov. Ralph Northam in his own alleged objectionable situation on it.“I was adamantly opposed to the mandate from @GovernorVA requiring citizens to wear face masks until I decided to design my own,” Falwell, the president of Liberty University, tweeted Wednesday. “If I am ordered to wear a mask, I will reluctantly comply, but only if this picture of Governor Blackface himself is on it!”He also included a photo of the makeshift masks, complete with the yearbook photo that fea...

Former NBA player Stephen Jackson is calling for capital punishment for the police officer who killed his friend.“I know we not going to get the death penalty, but I’m going for it,” Jackson said Thursday morning on Power105. “Because the only way that they can stop killing us is if they see one of their own sitting at the chair and fry for something they did and knowing that could be them.“We had to see it, the world had to see it, my brother die then the world has to see one of them die. That’s the only way we’re going to get justice.”Jackson said he was close with George Floyd, the man who ...

The 2020 Boston Marathon has been canceled.Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced the news Thursday. The marathon had originally been rescheduled from its traditional April date to Sept. 14.It’s the first time since the event began in 1897 that the marathon has been canceled.Walsh implied in later tweets that the Boston Athletic Association, which hosts the marathon, would attempt to hold a remote version of the event.“We’ll be joining and supporting the BAA in an alternative approach to the Marathon that allows runners to participate remotely, and allows all of us to celebrate the meaning this ra...

The identification of a woman’s remains 20 years after she was reported as a missing person in New Jersey is just part of larger story involving a still-unidentified Long Island serial killer.This is what we know so far, and how you can learn more about the mysterious story:The investigation that kicked off the mysteryShannan Gilbert, who officials say was a prostitute, was reported missing on May 1, 2010 and was last seen on Long Island.While searching for the 23-year-old Jersey City woman, police foundthe bodies of 10 other people and concluded that it was the work of a serial killer.A polic...

New York (AFP) - From the death of a black man in Minneapolis to a racist incident in Central Park, camera phones are increasingly being used as a weapon against racism even when justice doesn't always follow.Two videos shot on smartphones spread from social media to mainstream media this week, highlighting how bystanders are now frequently capturing incidents that in the past may have gone unnoticed.It was a member of the public who filmed George Floyd grasping for breath as a white Minneapolis policeman pressed his knee on Floyd's neck for at least five minutes on Monday.Floyd went still and...

Thoreau (United States) (AFP) - Amanda Larson pulls up at a water station a few miles from her home in the Navajo Nation and her three children get to work filling up large bottles lying on the bed of her pickup truck.The 66 gallons will be used by her family for drinking, washing clothes and bathing -- before the next trip out in two or three days to repeat the back-breaking task."It's embarrassing, it's degrading, it's heartbreaking for my kids because they can't jump into a shower like everybody else and just wash," the 35-year-old preschool teacher tells AFP after returning to her prefabri...

On Thursday night, the Minneapolis Police Department's third precinct was destroyed.

CNN anchor Don Lemon slammed U.S. Attorney Erica MacDonald for invoking President Donald Trump on Thursday.

Minnesota is experiencing another evening of devastating protests on Thursday after Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman and US Attorney Erica MacDonald held a press conference where they announced the investigations of George Floyd's killing were continuing, but no arrests had been made.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump proclaimed on Twitter that mail-in voting could "lead to the end of our great Republican Party."

On Thursday, at a protest in Denver, Colorado against the police killing of George Floyd, the driver of a black SUV tried to run down one of the demonstrators, in an incident captured on video.

On Thursday evening, as protests and demonstrations against the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis continued to spread nationwide, the driver of a black SUV at the protest in Denver, Colorado was captured on camera trying to run down a protester.

The mayor of Minneapolis put the city's protests of police in historical context during a Thursday evening appearance on MSNBC.