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Sesame Street teamed up with CNN, offering an explainer on the Black Lives Matter protests around the county, with Elmo’s dad explaining that “racism is a huge problem in this country.”

Protesters tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus in Virginia’s state capital on Tuesday using ropes to topple the monument before burning an American flag atop it and dragging it into a nearby lake. In Boston, a statue of the 15th Century explorer was beheaded overnight.

Shootings surged and murders were up over 100 percent in New York City last week as protesters flooded the streets, along with rioters who shattered windows and destroyed property.

During a press conference on Tuesday, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) stated that President Trump “acts as though the pandemic is over, we’re all going to get back to normal. He acts as though all of the protesters are going to

Members of the District of Columbia National Guard have tested positive for coronavirus following their mission protecting the Capitol.

The pavement on South Tryon Street in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, was painted with the words “Black Lives Matter” on Tuesday.

Rev. Al Sharpton invoked scripture to rip Trump during a rant on the reality of “wickedness in high places,” using the president’s visit to St. John’s Episcopal Church — which caught fire during a night of violent riots in D.C. — as an example.

Hong Kong activists defied orders from the police and marched on Tuesday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the protest movement.

The riots in American cities last week and the week before forced the temporary closure of at least 70 separate coronavirus testing sites nationwide, the White House Coronavirus Task Force was told on Tuesday.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” while discussing the nationwide response to George Floyd’s death, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said the only violence he saw in Washington D.C. was police on horseback moving back peaceful protesters last Monday.

Most Americans believe large protests and demonstrations carry the greatest risk to health in terms of resuming everyday activities in the era of the novel coronavirus, an Axios-Ipsos poll released Tuesday revealed.

Daniel Uhlfelder, who dressed as the Grim Reaper to shame beachgoers, has been spotted at what he described as a protest with a “huge” crowd.

Tuesday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host and network legal analyst Sunny Hostin said quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who was not re-signed by any NFL team after becoming famous for kneeling at games during the National Anthem, should get his job back with back pay and a Noble Peace Prize.

Seven people were shot within a six-hour time frame Monday in Democrat-controlled St. Louis.

The Minnesota Freedom Fund’s sudden windfall of donations raises questions about how the organization, which is led by a George Soros acolyte who is also a convicted drug offender, is actually spending its money.

Twenty-one people were shot, six fatally, over the weekend in Democrat-controlled St. Louis. 

On Monday’s “MSNBC Live,” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) stated that her state is reopening “incrementally” with the hope “that people know that we still have to live with the coronavirus, that we need to wear our masks. We cannot

Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” actor and civil rights activist Samuel Jackson called the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests the “labor pains” of systemic change.

New York City, once the epicenter of the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic in the United States, eased its stay-at-home order Monday and began a phased reopening after a nearly three-month lockdown.

The owner of a manufacturing plant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, says he will move his business out of the city after officials failed to protect his livelihood from being set on fire in riots this month. 

The percentage of Minnesota residents who have been tested for the novel coronavirus and have tested positive since the beginning of the pandemic has declined dramatically over the past two weeks, from 10.4 percent on Sunday May 24 to 8.1 percent on Sunday, June 7.

A Lowell, Massachusetts, police officer declined to kneel despite a bombardment of “take a knee” chants from a crowd of protesters on Wednesday.

During an interview aired on Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Attorney General William Barr stated that the protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death have raised the question of why people who are exercising their

The Indianapolis, Indiana community is honoring Chris Beaty, a 38-year-old real estate broker and former Indiana University football player, after he was murdered in riots on May 30. 

Piers Morgan has challenged President Donald Trump to show his solidarity with protesters by publicly taking a knee.

Lacy MacAuley is a self-proclaimed Antifa member who says the leftist group will use violence during protests to acheive political goals.

Several prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activists said on Monday they have been followed and filmed by mysterious stalkers they believe are Chinese security agents.

A throng of Celebrities joined Black Lives Matter (BLM) rallies over the weekend in the wake of the death of George Floyd.

Army Secretary McCarthy and Maj. Gen. William J. Walker defended the use of National Guardsmen in Washington, DC, last week.

The White House says that President Donald Trump’s decision to push for a surge in National Guard troops in American cities last week has paid off.

Please stop stressing. There is no massive social change taking place. There is no mass movement to defund the police and make white people kneel. This is a deep blue temper tantrum, an Astroturf campaign to make you feel like you’re outnumbered,

White police officers and members of the community gathered on Saturday to wash the feet of black faith leaders in North Carolina.

The vast majority of Arizonans approve of Gov. Doug Ducey’s (R) prompt decision to order a statewide curfew to curb violent protests as many remain concerned over demonstrations, an Arizona Public Opinion Pulse poll released this week revealed.

Monday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Meghan McCain accused President Donald Trump of being “neutered” amid the protests over the death of George Floyd.

Monday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg said when President Donald Trump held a Bible in front of the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., which had been damaged by arson, she was shocked when it did not “burst into flame.”

Democrat lawmakers, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), took a knee and corresponding moment of silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol on Monday in honor of George Floyd and to “respect the actions of the American people to speak out” against the “consequences” of slavery and racism “specifically manifested in police brutality.”