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Nearly 200 players took the field for an 8-minute, 46-second moment of silence to protest racial injustice before Major League Soccer’s return to action Wednesday night.

Prosecutors have filed three felony charges against the man who hit two protesters with his car while driving on a Seattle freeway that was closed for Black Lives Matter demonstrations

A judge set bail at $1.2 million on Monday for the man accused of driving a Jaguar on to a closed Seattle freeway and hitting two protesters, killing one

Police say an 8-year-old girl was shot and killed in Atlanta on the Fourth of July after at least two people in a crowd opened fire on a car she was in.

China’s government and pro-Beijing activists in Hong Kong are condemning what they call foreign meddling in the territory’s affairs, as countries move to offer Hong Kongers refuge and impose sanctions on China over a new security law

Black-owned businesses are enjoying a surge in support amid the national reckoning on racism sparked by George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis

President Donald Trump seems to rarely leave a thought unspoken

Iran has sentenced to death a journalist whose online work helped inspire the 2017 economic protests and who returned from exile to Tehran

President Donald Trump says he’s cracking down on protesters who deface or tear down monuments.

Authorities are investigating a fatal shooting at a park in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, where demonstrators had gathered to protest the death of Breonna Taylor

Federal authorities have charged four men in connection with a failed effort last week to pull down the statue of President Andrew Jackson near the White House.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside an Aurora, Colorado, municipal building Saturday demanding systemic change and justice in the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died last year after police applied a chokehold.

The outcry has reverberated for weeks online and at demonstrations nationwide: Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor

A policing overhaul may have collapsed in Congress, but House Democrats are returning Thursday to Washington for a daylong debate on their package of law enforcement changes.

A Republican policing bill stalled out Wednesday, blocked in a vote by Senate Democrats who dismissed it as meager “crumbs.”

Crowds outside the Wisconsin State Capitol tore down two statues and attacked a state senator amid protests following the arrest of a Black man who was at a restaurant with a megaphone and a baseball bat.

Protesters gathered outside City Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts, to voice their opposition to an increase in the police department’s budget, and city officials now say they will reconsider their decision. The demonstrators objected to city councilors’ unanimous vote last Tuesday to raise the budget of the Worcester Police Department by $250,000, bringing the total to $52 million. “A lot of…

Hundreds of people gathered Monday afternoon outside the Massachusetts State House after a march in honor of Rayshard Brooks, who was shot and killed by a police officer in Atlanta. Demonstrators started their march at the Reggie Lewis Center at Roxbury Community College. Organizers say they plan on continuing to take action until they see change. Brooks was fatally shot…

Protesters held a rally Tuesday in front of District Attorney Rachael Rollins’ office to demand the reopening of cases involving Black people killed by police. Ahead of a 5 p.m. Boston2Minneapolis rally, the group Mass Action Against Police Brutality held a press conference to demand the reopening of the cases of Tamir Rice and Michael Brown, as well as...

It’s been more than two weeks since large protests began in Boston in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Huge crowds of people in close proximity have raised concerns about a potential spike in coronavirus cases. But so far, that has not happened. “We continue to see a very small number of patients who even have any type of...