More than a dozen Chicago police officers and supervisors were captured on video, lounging inside a burglarized congressional campaign office and even appeared to be making popcorn and brewing coffee as people vandalized and stole from nearby businesses as protests and unrest spread across the city, a visibly angry Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday.
The father of a man suspected of opening fire at a California police station, wounding a deputy with a shot to the face and killing a transient man in a separate shooting said his son has mental illnesses and refuses to take medication but has no particular animus toward law enforcement.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday after weeks of protests against police brutality and racism that his administration would invest more in police training and take measures to increase access to capital for small businesses in minority communities.
Microsoft has become the third big tech company this week to say it won't sell its facial recognition software to police, following similar moves by Amazon and IBM.
A mural by secretive British street artist Banksy that was stolen last year from the Bataclan theatre in Paris has been found in a farmhouse in central Italy, police said on Thursday.
Arizona hospitals have reported being over 80 per cent of capacity this week while Texas is also seeing its highest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations currently as several southern states grapple more extensively with the coronavirus than in March and April.
The PGA Tour got back to business Thursday at Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas, with no spectators and a moment of silence to honour George Floyd.
The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating in Africa, spreading to rural areas after international travellers brought it to capital cities, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
Army Gen. Mark Milley, the top military officer in the U.S., said Thursday he was wrong to have accompanied President Donald Trump on a walk to a church through Lafayette Square, where he was photographed in his combat uniform with the presidential entourage.
Protesters tore down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis along the famed Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday night. In Miami, demonstrators spray-painted statues of Columbus and Ponce de Leon, leading to arrests.
About 1.5 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, evidence that many Americans are still losing their jobs even as the economy appears to be slowly recovering with more businesses partially reopening.
More than two million people in the United States have contracted the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to a case tracking tool maintained by Johns Hopkins University. Here's a look at what's happening around the world.
When the NHL first announced plans in May to salvage its season, it "only" had the health limitations of a global pandemic to contend with. A lot has changed since the league announced the 10 locations it might use as hub cities to resume its season and playoffs.
Two pioneers in restaurant delivery — Just Eat Takeaway.com and Grubhub — are combining in a $7.3 billion US deal that will create one of the world's largest delivery companies.
Hundreds of Russian polling station officials, citing the risk of spreading the novel coronavirus, say they won't help organize a nationwide vote on reforms that could extend President Vladimir Putin's rule until 2036.
A resurgence of coronavirus infections in the Seoul region, where half of South Korea's 51 million people live, is threatening the country's success story and prompting health authorities to warn that action must be taken now to stop a second wave.
It's been a dismal few days for Canada-U.S. relations. Specifically, for people in relationships with someone on the other side of the border, dealing with depressing news about their life-altering limbo. In some cases, the travel restrictions have prevented parents from meeting their newborns.
One of the four former white Minneapolis police officers who were charged over the death of George Floyd, 46, a black man whose death in custody set off protests for police reform and racial justice, was released on bail on Wednesday.
In any ordinary year, the annual G7 summit would be in full swing this week. This is no ordinary year, of course. And with U.S. President Donald Trump hosting this year's gathering, the summit already has abandoned its usual veneer of unity.
