Elected officials are exploring changes ranging from defunding police departments to requiring more accountability. Mourners gathered to view George Floyd in Houston. Protests were held in cities including Los Angeles, New York and Charlotte, N.C., but nighttime demonstrations were largely quiet. In a meeting with law enforcement officials, Mr. Trump said he opposed any defunding or dismantling of police departments, which many demonstrators have been demanding to address police violence. Legislators, responding to protests over the death of George Floyd, are approving a package of bills aimed at police misconduct. As gruesome videos and energetic protests reshape public opinion about racial discrimination, Joe Biden tried to balance protesters’ calls for a law enforcement overhaul while not alienating moderate voters. Much is not yet certain, but here’s what is known so far about some efforts to defund or abolish police departments. After months of a devastating outbreak, the city is officially back in business, with as many as 400,000 people returning to work. The pandemic forced the economy to contract sharply, ending a record expansion and prompting the group that dates U.S. business cycles to formally declare a recession. The S&P 500 climbed back above where it began the year on the same day that economists said the United States fell into a recession in February. The pandemic has complicated the usual methods and models for compiling employment data. But uncertainty has been offset by transparency. Swarms of accounts are amplifying Beijing’s brash new messaging as the country tries to shape the global narrative about the coronavirus and much else. A tweet by Liberty University’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr., has sparked an angry protest in the evangelical college’s community and a rare apology from Mr. Falwell. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. This is what happened when a fortified police line met a wave of peaceful demonstrators in New York. The markets rarely get it as wrong as they did last week. Economists tried to explain why better-than-expected labor data wasn’t part of a conspiracy. We must get it right this time or risk losing our democracy forever. An uptick, but the economy is still on life support. The uprising over police violence fuels a progressive primary challenge. Thousands continue to take to the streets in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx. Our sins are grievous, but we are not yet beyond redemption. The government is allowing federal pandemic aid to pay for clergy salaries, something that once would have been unthinkable. Hospitals are on the brink of collapse, cemeteries are burying people in mass graves, and still, we refuse to take this virus seriously. A professor of psychology urges adoption of the Ethical Policing Is Courageous training program. Also: Missing Broadway theater. Britain’s National Collection of Type Cultures, a library of human bacterial pathogens, turned 100 this year. More work by Hervé Guibert, who died at 36 in 1991, is being made available in English, including his great AIDS novel “To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life.” The attorney general’s account stood in direct contrast to the version that the president offered last week when he suggested he had merely been looking the place over. The North’s leadership says it will now treat the South as an “enemy,” the latest sign of chilling relations between the two Koreas. The new law marks the nation's first legal protection for children and adolescents, though it does not address child marriages nor juveniles sentenced to death. The spat over whether the prince is willing to help in a sex-trafficking inquiry escalated, with a top federal prosecutor effectively calling the British royal a liar. A viral hashtag encouraged black and nonblack book authors to compare their pay. Publishers pledged to improve their diversity efforts. The astronaut Kathy Sullivan, 68, is now also the first woman to reach the Challenger Deep, about seven miles below the ocean’s surface. When demonstrators dumped the monument to a slave trader into Bristol Harbor, they galvanized a debate that echoes conversations happening in the American South about statues of Confederate generals. Couples’ fights in lockdown are often about the unremitting intensity of togetherness. The sooner you de-escalate a fight, the sooner you can begin working on real solutions. The German soccer team Saarbrücken knocked off a string of bigger, better teams to reach a cup semifinal. Does it have another victory in it? Fashion can do more than simply express solidarity. Getting started on the new streaming service? Here’s a guide to some of the best film offerings, from classics to contemporary hits. Anchovy crostini, tuna-stuffed peppers, canned clam pasta: Eat them separately, or, do as David Tanis does, and make them a whole meal. More Recent Articles |
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