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Thousands of people come to pay their respects to Floyd. A memorial will be held in Houston Tuesday
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Derrick Sanderlin was attempting to de-escalate a confrontation at a San Jose protest when he was shot with a rubber bullet
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President has not held in-person rally since 2 March and advisers are weighing where and how rallies can safely take place
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Court hearing comes as Floyd’s family prepares to bury him in Houston, where he spent most of his life
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UK politicians and military experts warn decision could hand advantage to Russia
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FBI also investigating whether Steven Carrillo, leader of elite security force, has links to killing of federal officer in Oakland
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Those clutching their pearls at police brutality think the US’s inherent virtue will prevail. But it was never there to begin with, says the Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Hope is Power
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If the NFL thought the debate on peaceful protests was over, it was mistaken after the president directly addressed Roger Goodell in a tweet on Sunday
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He has served in Iraq with the US Marines and lost a baby daughter to SIDS. The WBO super-featherweight champion believes his fraught and testing experiences could help save someone’s life, he tells Donald McRae
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Caldwell, a wide receiver who played seven NFL seasons, was killed in what’s been described as a ‘targeted’ robbery attempt in his Tampa hometown
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It is hard to find a family that lives and breathes football as much as that of San Diego Loyal’s Carlos Álvarez and his wife, Renae Cuéllar
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Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, led House and Senate Democrats in a moment of silence at the Capitol's Emancipation Hall after reading the names of George Floyd and others killed in police custody
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In a virtual commencement address, the former president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle discuss Covid-19 and the issue of race in the US
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Former senior officials also worry Britain may be sidelined if Joe Biden becomes president
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City council members declare intent to ‘abolish’ embattled agency and replace with alternative model in wake of George Floyd’s killing
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National Bureau of Economic Research says economic growth in the US peaked in February and has since entered its first downturn since 2007 to 2009
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Witness footage shows a man being shot by a driver, who later brandished what appeared to be a gun while walking through a crowd of George Floyd demonstrators in Seattle
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Minneapolis's mayor was heckled after he ruled out defunding the police, as a veto-proof majority of council members pledged to disband the department
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Thousands of protesters gathered outside the US embassy in London on Sunday to show solidarity with demonstrators in America, where protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis have continued
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