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05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany in Berlin on Wednesday.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Saturday joined a number of officials saying peaceful protests were being overtaken by "extremists."
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would postpone the Group of Seven summit that he wanted to hold in late June and expand the list of countries invited to include Australia, Russia, South Korea and India.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
More national protests took place Saturday as demonstrators reacted to the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody on Memorial Day.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
A rocket ship designed and built by Elon Musk's SpaceX company has lifted off with two Americans on a history-making flight to the International Space Station. (May 30)
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
Hundreds of people protesting the death of George Floyd gathered in Brooklyn on Saturday, and some engaged in skirmishes with the police.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
President Trump watching the SpaceX rocket launch Saturday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
Colombia issued new measures to control the spread of the novel coronavirus in three of its most affected cities on Saturday, including the capital Bogota, as the rest of the country prepares for quarantine rules to start lifting.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
President Trump at the White House on Friday.
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans into orbit from Florida on Saturday in a landmark mission marking the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
Global coronavirus cases surpassed 6 million on Saturday, according to a Reuters tally, as Latin America reported a grim milestone of 50,000 deaths from the disease.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
Minnesota officials say outside agitators, not local residents, are responsible for the violence and riots.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
Demonstrators protested outside the Minneapolis Police Department’s Fifth Precinct on Friday.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
Police arrive to a looted supermarket near the Minneapolis Police Third Precinct Thursday in Minneapolis.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. State officials are focusing on controlling hot spots in the city and preparing its hospitals to deal with a potential second spike.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
Petal Mayor Hal Marx said his comments on George Floyd's death - which went viral and many consider racist - were 'taken out of context.'
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
The full Minnesota National Guard was activated for the first time since World War Two after four nights of civil unrest that has spread to other U.S. cities following the death of a black man shown on video gasping for breath as a white Minneapolis policeman knelt on his neck.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
The NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley, left, and Robert Behnken as they made their way to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday.
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
In an extraordinary move, the Pentagon on Saturday said it put military units on a four-hour recall status to be ready if requested by Minnesota's governor amid civil unrest following the killing of a black man by a white Minneapolis police officer.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
Here are the top stories for Saturday, May 30th: Damage and clean up after Minneapolis protests; NY protesters demand justice for George Floyd; Historic SpaceX rocket launch from Florida to ISS; 21-storey downtown Richmond building implodes.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
A confrontation between protesters and the police in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on Saturday.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
As a nurse on the front lines of Mexico's coronavirus battle, Gisela Hernandez has stayed away from her children for nearly two months, sleeping in a hotel and even her car to avoid infecting them because she feels inadequately protected at work.
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
In addition to disputing misleading claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump about mail-in ballots this week, Twitter has added fact-checking labels to thousands of other tweets since introducing the alerts earlier this month, mostly on posts about the coronavirus.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
President Trump spoke to reporters before boarding Marine One at the White House on Saturday.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
The mission marks the first time a private company has launched humans into space. It's the first time since 2011 the US has sent humans into orbit.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
Israeli soldiers standing guard in March at a protest against Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
An Indian military officer on patrol outside in Ladakh, India, in August.
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
In 2019, Dante Lucchesi and his Champs Sports Grill in State College, Pennsylvania, were on a roll.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
A rocket ship designed and built by Elon Musk's SpaceX has lifted off with two Americans on a history-making flight to the International Space Station. (May 30)
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
Emergency services and volunteers began clearing damage in Minneapolis on Saturday after violent unrest the previous night saw businesses left burnt out and ransacked. (May 30)
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
The more than 2 million people who have been "shielding" from COVID-19 in England because they are deemed to be clinically extremely vulnerable will be allowed to spend time outdoors from Monday for the first time in 10 weeks.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are on a roughly 19-hour journey to the International Space Station. It's a mission nearly a decade in the making.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
Runners on the Hudson River Greenway in New York.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
Iran, always keen to score points against its longtime foe the United States, took Washington to task on Saturday over the killing of a black man by a white police officer that has sparked angry protests over racial injustice.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says protesters and police officers will be held accountable for acts of violence at a demonstration in Brooklyn that left people bloodied and vehicles burned. (May 30).
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
Russian scientists plan to start clinical trials within two weeks on a vaccine to combat the novel coronavirus, the health minister was quoted as saying on Saturday as authorities approved the country's first anti-COVID-19 drug.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
How to live a full and cultured life during the pandemic, at home.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
An informed guide to the global outbreak.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lamented the failings of the US justice system following violent nationwide protests demanding justice for George Floyd, a black man who died after a white officer pressed a knee into his neck. (May 30)
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
Israeli police officers fatally shot a Palestinian they suspected was carrying a weapon in Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday, a police spokesman said, but the man was later found to have been unarmed, Israeli media reported.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
Israeli police officers fatally shot a Palestinian they suspected was carrying a weapon in Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday, a police spokesman said, but the man was later found to have been unarmed, Israeli media reported.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
NY protesters demand justice for George Floyd
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
Alphabet Inc's Google on Saturday said it has postponed next week's planned unveiling of the beta version of its latest Android 11 mobile operating system in light of protests and unrest in the United States.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
Alphabet Inc's Google on Saturday said it has postponed next week's planned unveiling of the beta version of its latest Android 11 mobile operating system in light of protests and unrest in the United States.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
Islamic State claimed responsibility for Saturday's bomb explosion that killed an Afghan journalist and a technician in minibus carrying employees of a local television station in Kabul.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
Protesting the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis on Thursday.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
Outrage over George Floyd's death in Minneapolis sparked protests, both peaceful and contentious, in cities across the nation on Friday night.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
Municipalities could change policies so social service workers, not the police, are dispatched for certain kinds of 911 calls.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
The Global Pride livestream is expected to feature appearances by, from left, President Carlos Alvarado Quesada of Costa Rica; the Australian drag performer Courtney Act; the pop singer Ava Max; and Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway.
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
U.S. President Donald Trump said the military could deploy troops to Minneapolis "very quickly" to respond to violent protests in the aftermath of a police killing of an unarmed black man.
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
Is Donald Trump real without Jack Dorsey and Twitter?
05/30/2020 New York Times Top News
Invoking a symbol of distress, a protester carried a U.S. flag upside down on Thursday night in Minneapolis.
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Saturday "outside radicals and agitators" have hijacked protests in U.S. cities over the death of an unarmed black man in police custody in Minneapolis.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
Police van burns in Brooklyn protest
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
United States soccer player Weston McKennie joined the chorus of outrage from athletes protesting against the death of a black man in Minneapolis by wearing an armband with the message "Justice for George" in a German league game on Saturday.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
An Australian ex-soldier, released on parole after being convicted of a street murder in Bulgaria in 2009, fears he will be rearrested if he tries to leave the country and is now seeking a new trial to try to clear his name.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
Protests across America turned violent as demonstrators expressed anger over George Floyd's death by police.
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
England risks losing control of the coronavirus pandemic again and is at a "very dangerous moment" as it starts to ease out of the COVID-19 lockdown, senior scientific and medical advisers warned on Saturday.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
Images and videos showed fiery demonstrations in Atlanta on Friday night, prompting an impassioned plea for peace from Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
England risks losing control of the coronavirus pandemic again and is at a "very dangerous moment" as it starts to ease out of the COVID-19 lockdown, senior scientific and medical advisers warned on Saturday.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms had an emotional message for violent protesters who brought 'chaos' to her city.
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
Britain's COVID-19 lockdown rules are clear and apply to everyone, a senior medical officer said when asked about a long road trip made by the prime minister's top adviser, Dominic Cummings, at the height of the lockdown.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
Britain's COVID-19 lockdown rules are clear and apply to everyone, a senior medical officer said when asked about a long road trip made by the prime minister's top adviser, Dominic Cummings, at the height of the lockdown.
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
Pope Francis on Saturday urged politicians to divert funds spent on weapons to research to prevent another pandemic, as he led the largest gathering in the Vatican in nearly three months.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
Pope Francis on Saturday urged politicians to divert funds spent on weapons to research to prevent another pandemic, as he led the largest gathering in the Vatican in nearly three months.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
Spain's coronavirus death toll rose by four on Saturday to 27,125, the Health Ministry said, reflecting a dramatic decline in daily fatalities in recent weeks as the country brings the outbreak under control.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy climbed by 111 on Saturday, against 87 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the daily tally of new cases fell to 416 from 516 on Friday.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
A nephew of Belgium's King Philippe, Prince Joachim, has tested positive for coronavirus after attending a party in Spain, which Spanish media said broke lockdown rules because of the number of people there.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
Four small Spanish islands will be able to open the outside terraces of bars and restaurants to 75% of their capacity from Monday, the government said, a further easing of coronavirus lockdown rules for parts of the country least affected by the disease.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
Spain's coronavirus death toll rose by four on Saturday to 27,125, the Health Ministry said, reflecting a dramatic decline in daily fatalities in recent weeks as the country brings the outbreak under control.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
A look at the day's best photographs from around the world.
05/30/2020 Reuters World News
Libyan currency worth over $1 billion which was printed in Moscow and seized by Malta is not counterfeit, Russia's foreign ministry said on Saturday in response to U.S. claims.
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
Britain is at a very dangerous moment as it starts to ease some of its lockdown measures, England's deputy chief medical officer said on Saturday, warning that people would need to follow the guidelines and not "tear the pants out of it".
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
The United Kingdom death toll from people who have tested positive for COVID-19 rose by 215 to 38,376, the government said on Saturday.
05/30/2020 USA Today - Nation
As protests over the death of Breonna Taylor took over downtown Louisville again, officials blamed much of the ensuing vandalism on "out-of-towners."
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
The European Union urged the United States on Saturday to reconsider its decision to cut ties with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
The United States will end its relationship with the World Health Organization over the body's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday, accusing the U.N. agency of becoming a puppet of China.
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
Parisians flocked to parks and gardens as they reopened in the sunny French capital on Saturday for the first time after almost 11 weeks of coronavirus lockdown, one of the last areas of France to ease restrictions.
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
Hong Kong officials lashed out on Saturday at moves by U.S. President Donald Trump to strip the city of its special status in a bid to punish China for imposing national security laws on the global financial hub.
05/30/2020 Reuters Top News
Lufthansa's management board has accepted a more favourable set of demands from the European Commission in exchange for approval of a 9 billion euro ($10 billion) government bailout, the carrier said on Saturday, paving the way for its rescue.
