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The Minnesota Legislature has approved a bill to revise rules on police use of force in response to the killing of George Floyd. Here, a boy runs past a mural at a memorial to Floyd outside Cup Foods.

Minnesota Lawmakers Ban Police Chokeholds, 'Warrior-Style Training'

The bill's most high-profile sections put new limits on police use of force in a bid to increase accountability nearly two months after George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis.

In a string of deleted tweets, rapper Kanye West claimed that his wife Kim Kardashian was trying to get him hospitalized, following a campaign rally he held on Sunday.

Kanye West Tweets, Then Deletes, Claims Of His Family's Concern — And More

West has announced he's running for president. Following an apparent campaign rally on Sunday, the rapper said in a string of now-deleted tweets that his wife was trying to "lock me up with a doctor."

A security camera and flag adorn the entrance to the Russian Embassy in London. On Tuesday, lawmakers slammed the British government for failing to look into possible Russian interference in U.K. politics.

U.K. 'Actively Avoided' Investigating Russian Interference, Lawmakers Find

The report by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee said government did little to find out if Russia tried to influence the Brexit referendum. "They did not want to know," a lawmaker said.

President Trump speaks last week during a press conference in the White House Rose Garden.

Seeking Suburban Votes, Trump To Repeal Rule Combating Racial Bias In Housing

The president has been talking a lot about suburbs lately, in particular about an Obama-era rule to limit housing discrimination. It appears to be a fear-based tactic to win swing voters.

HAIM Radiates Sunniness In 'Women In Music Pt. III'

The new album by three Los Angeles sisters feels like it was meant to be blasted loud in your car as you try to time all the green lights along Sunset Boulevard.

LI Sound Dredging Followed EPA Protocol, Judge Rules, In Loss To New York

A federal judge sided with the Environmental Protection Agency in a fight with New York officials over a disposal site for dredged material in Long Island…

Sheldon Silver, Former NYS Assembly Speaker, Sentenced To Prison

Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been sentenced, more than two years after a federal jury convicted him on extortion and money…

New York AG Leads Lawsuit Against Trump Administration's New Health Care Rule

New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading a coalition of 23 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit aimed at stopping a new Trump administration…

Russell Travers, who was the acting director of National Counterterrorism Center, is shown in an appearance before a Senate committee in 2018. Travers, who was ousted from his position in March of this year, says in an interview with NPR that the center is not being given the resources needed to perform its mission of monitoring and analyzing terrorist threats worldwide.

Ex-Counterterrorism Chief: Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Attacks

Russ Travers was ousted from the National Counterterrorism Center in March. In his first broadcast interview since then, he warns that the U.S. risks becoming less prepared for a terror attack.

Dr. Glenn Lopez administered a standard test for the coronavirus to Daniel Contreras at a mobile clinic in South Los Angeles last week. Though highly accurate, such tests can take days or more to process.

Rapid, Cheap, Less Accurate Coronavirus Testing Has A Place, Scientists Say

A single test that can give false reassurance sounds bad. But a $10 test for the coronavirus, if repeated daily, would discover real infections, say proponents of such tests as screening tools.

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