Lauding ‘force’ against protests, Sen. Cotton raises profile
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Freshman Sen. Tom Cotton has risen to the ranks of potential 2024 Republican presidential contenders by making all the right enemies. By lining up behind President Donald Trump’s law-and-order recipe for controlling civic unrest, he’s making even more. “One thing above all...
Report: 3 more officers to be charged in George Floyd’s death
June 3, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The three other police officers on the scene when a Minneapolis officer killed George Floyd are being charged with aiding and abetting a murder, and the case against the main officer is being upgraded to second-degree murder, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The Star Tribune, citing...
Trump threatens military force against protesters nationwide
June 2, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wielding extraordinary federal authority, President Donald Trump threatened the nation’s governors on Monday that he would deploy the military to states if they did not stamp out violent protests over police brutality that have roiled the nation over the past week. His announcement...
Family-ordered autopsy: Floyd died of asphyxia
June 1, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS — An autopsy commissioned for George Floyd’s family found that Floyd died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression, the Floyd family’s attorneys said Monday. The autopsy by a doctor who also examined Eric Garner’s body found the compression cut off blood to Floyd’s brain,...
Mass gatherings, erosion of trust upend coronavirus control
June 1, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — Protests erupting across the nation over the past week — and law enforcement's response to them — are threatening to upend efforts by health officials to track and contain the spread of coronavirus just as those efforts were finally getting underway. Health experts need newly infected people to remember and recount everyo...
SpaceX rocket ship blasts off into orbit with 2 Americans
May 30, 2020
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company thundered away from Earth with two Americans on Saturday, ushering in a new era in commercial space travel and putting the United States back in the business of launching astronauts into orbit from U.S. soil for the first...
Killing of George Floyd ignites nationwide unrest
Cailey Gleeson, Ria Bhagwat, Brita Hunegs, and Lacey Latch
May 29, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS — Last night a crowd outside Minneapolis Police’s 3rd Precinct chanting a chorus of “Whose streets? Our streets!” echoed as flames coming from within the police headquarters licked the night sky as the building slowly burned. What began as a call about suspected forgery on a grocery store ...
Some DePaul organizations celebrate APIDA heritage month despite setbacks
Sonal Soni, Contributing Writer
May 28, 2020
May is Asian, Pacific Islander and Desi American (APIDA) heritage month, and APIDA members at DePaul are utilizing this time to raise awareness for issues the community faces. Although in-person events cannot be held, the DePaul APIDA community engages in remote programming to keep the month long celebrat...
Violent protests rock Minneapolis after death of black man in police custody
May 28, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Violent protests over the death of a black man in police custody rocked a Minneapolis neighborhood for a second straight night as angry crowds looted stores, set fires and left a path of damage that stretched for miles. The mayor asked the governor to activate the National Guard. The...
COVID-19 has disrupted international sports tournaments that were going to take place in the summer
Sahil Gujarati, Contributing Writer
May 23, 2020
UEFA convened a telephone call featuring its major stakeholders back on March 14 to plan European football's response to the coronavirus. The governing body's 55 member associations, the EU Club Association, European Leagues and the international players' union Fifpro were all represented. Reschedul...
Pritzker outlines ‘Restore Illinois’ plan as groups, other states look toward reopening
Daniel Berry, Contributing Writer
May 20, 2020
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has released a five-phase reopening plan for Illinois as states begin to look toward reopening their economies and public spaces as COVID-19 infection rates decrease. As of May 14, there have been 87,937 cases and 3,928 deaths in Illinois. The “Restore Illinois...
Flooding hits parts of Midwest
May 19, 2020
EDENVILLE, Mich. (AP) — People living along two mid-Michigan lakes and parts of a river were evacuated Tuesday following several days of heavy rain that produced flooding and put pressure on dams in the area. Two Midland-area schools were opened for evacuees and more than 50 roads have been closed....
