May 30, 2020

Soldiers from Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Drum in New York have been ordered to be ready to deploy within four hours if called, according to three people with direct knowledge of the orders. Soldiers in Fort Carson, in Colorado, and Fort Riley in Kansas have been told to be ready within 24 hours. The people did not want their names used because they were not authorized to discuss the preparations.

May 30, 2020

“I certainly can’t confirm personally on this. My suspicions from what I’ve seen on this – yes,” he responded, noting that there were “unconfirmed reports” which corroborated his hunch... It appears that Walz believes the worst is yet to come. In anticipation of larger protests on Saturday, the National Guard is expected to deploy an estimated 1,700 troops – 700 more than originally planned.

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....It was spoken as a fact, not as a statement. It’s very simple, nobody should have any problem with this other than the haters, and those looking to cause trouble on social media. Honor the memory of George Floyd!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 29, 2020

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May 29, 2020

"Because they have failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms, we will be today be terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs," Trump said at a press conference.

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May 29, 2020

The June 2 event had been billed as a “fireside chat” with Weissmann, who departed Mueller’s team last year and is working on a book about his role in the probe, and Anne Milgram, a former New Jersey attorney general. The fundraiser was pulled shortly after it was posted late last week, but not before it garnered widespread media attention...

May 29, 2020

Stone's message on not needing to quarantine himself in prison comes despite a U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) directive saying it would “process all newly-sentenced Bureau inmates through one of three quarantine sites” or at a federal detention facility.

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May 29, 2020

Authorities said on Friday that several monkeys accosted a laboratory technician who was walking around a state-run medical college in India and took with them blood samples from coronavirus patients. Officials are uncertain if any of the samples have spilled.

May 29, 2020

The nearly 50-page complaint alleges that Google's Android operating system is deceptive and opaque when it collects users' location information.

May 29, 2020

Doe's legal team dispatched process servers to five addresses previously connected to Maxwell, including a multi-million dollar brownstone on Manhattan's Upper East Side, an apartment building in Miami Beach and Epstein's mansion on Palm Beach Island, according to court documents. They also sent copies of the complaint to eight different email addresses potentially connected to Maxwell, but received no replies.

May 30, 2020

Alleging Clearview violated a well-known Illinois biometric privacy law...

May 30, 2020

The Black community in MN is calling out white Antifa members for starting the riots and destroying their communities. I keep telling y’all these white liberals are not our friends. #Democrats #GeorgeFloyd #minneapolis pic.twitter.com/bmdT6uHfUc

— Angela Stanton King 🇺🇸 (@theangiestanton) May 29, 2020

May 29, 2020

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot: “I will code what I really want to say to Donald Trump. It’s two words: It begins with ‘F’ and ends with ‘U.’” pic.twitter.com/TOlIbZZCrw

— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) May 29, 2020

May 29, 2020

Heartbreaking to wake up to the news that Migizi Communication, a 40 year old Native youth organization, was burned in #MinneapolisRiot reports from the org state that everything was lost archives, historic material, photos. Prayers out to our relatives. pic.twitter.com/pdJsgovYNP

— Matt Remle (@wakiyan7) May 29, 2020

May 29, 2020

Food banks have reported skyrocketing numbers of Americans relying on their services amid pandemic shutdowns...

May 29, 2020

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced the proposed policy change Thursday. It would affect Hong Hong British national passport holders, which is a group of about 300,000 people who lived in the region before it became Chinese territory. Raab said the move would extend visa rights, allowing Hong Kong nationals to stay in the U.K. for longer than six-months.

May 29, 2020

Elon, your rocket just blew up. pic.twitter.com/EZAVN4cVCd

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) May 29, 2020

May 29, 2020

One of the additional four women was 17 at the time of the alleged encounter, according to a report published Thursday by The Hollywood Reporter. Harvey’s brother Bob Weinstein, production group Miramax and Disney were all named in the lawsuit.

May 29, 2020

Van Jones just said that Hillary Clinton supporters are a bigger threat to black people than the KKK. pic.twitter.com/6vnwUmOrcA

— Seanologues on YouTube! (@seankent) May 29, 2020

May 29, 2020

John Harrington, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, announced that Chauvin was taken into custody by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

“We have now been able to put together the evidence that we need. Even as late as yesterday afternoon, we did not have all that we needed,” Freeman said, before saying that he was unable to speak to specific pieces of evidence and which one specifically was needed to file charges.

“This is by far the fastest that we’ve ever charged a police officer,” Freeman said.

May 29, 2020

“CBS News is not alone in this process — similar changes are happening across many CBS divisions today and have taken place in Viacom divisions over the past few months. We looked at every option and exhausted other available cost-savings before taking this step. There is nothing more upsetting than having to face these economic realities and I’ve tried very hard to minimize the impact on all of you,” the memo continued...

May 29, 2020

Speaking at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on the 15th anniversary of the Anti-Secession Law, Li Zuocheng, chief of the Joint Staff Department and member of the Central Military Commission, left the door open to using force... "If the possibility for peaceful reunification is lost, the people's armed forces will, with the whole nation, including the people of Taiwan, take all necessary steps to resolutely smash any separatist plots or actions," Li said.

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May 29, 2020

George Floyd and now-former Officer Derek Chauvin both worked security at the El Nuevo Rodeo club on Lake Street, according to Maya Santamaria... "Chauvin was our off-duty police for almost the entirety of the 17 years that we were open," Santamaria said. "They were working together at the same time, it's just that Chauvin worked outside and the security guards were inside."

May 29, 2020

Thick smoke was seen rising over the city as firefighters worked to contain a number of blazes Friday morning and National Guard troops blocked access to streets where businesses had been damaged. They marched side by side and block by block as they expanded a perimeter around a heavily damaged area.