Новости за 02.06.2020

District Attorney Paul Howard announces assault and battery charges Tuesday after the release of a video showing officers using stun guns on two black young adults and yanking them from their car.

"I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated," says Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are pushing a wide range of proposals such as banning chokeholds as a response to the protests across the country following the death of George Floyd.

Gov. Cuomo says the number of new coronavirus hospitalizations reported on June 1 was 154. That's the lowest number since the state started counting in mid-March.

A slew of primary elections that were delayed by the coronavirus pandemic are underway Tuesday. But in addition to the virus, election officials now have to grapple with civil unrest.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the government's response to the protests around the country sparked by George Floyd's death in police custody last week.

Foreign policy experts warn that scenes of police charging protesters and President Trump calling for military involvement may affect the U.S.'s ability to make a case for democracy globally.

A controversial WHO study predicts the coronavirus will spread differently in Africa than it has elsewhere and claim lives of 190,000 Africans — a far less dire outcome than predicted earlier.

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden spoke in Philadelphia Tuesday, condemning President Trump's response to protests over George Floyd's death and discussing how to address racial disparities.

Minneapolis neighborhood groups started taking up arms to defend their businesses when police all but disappeared from streets amid fiery protests last week.

Washington, D.C., resident Rahul Dubey has sheltered nearly 70 protesters in his home Tuesday. He talks about their stay and the events that unfolded that night.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Elizabeth Goitein, who codirects the Brennan Center for Justice's Liberty & National Security Program, about the 1807 Insurrection Act and presidential emergency powers.

President Trump has visited a Catholic shrine Tuesday to promote religious freedom. The D.C. Archbishop criticized this visit and another president's controversial church visit Monday.

NPR's Mary Louise talks with Kelly Mary Hooks, a co-director of Southerners on New Ground and a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Atlanta, about who the protestors in Atlanta are and what they demand.

Gov. Greg Abbott has addressed protests in Texas on Tuesday. Police there have come under fire — in Dallas for using tear gas on peaceful protesters and in Austin for using rubber bullets.

Protests across the U.S. sparked by George Floyd's death have created an unlikely opportunity — for China. The scenes of violence became a propaganda gold mine for the ruling Communist Party.

High tuition, restrictions on travel and a potential semester online — about a quarter of students are rethinking their college plans, according to a recent survey. Many are thinking of a gap year.

A movie critic shares his experience of returning back to a movie theater for the first time after two months of the pandemic-forced abstinence.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with The New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen about their new book, Surviving Autocracy.

With the course of the pandemic unclear, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said, "Planning for a scaled-down convention with fewer people, social distancing and face coverings is a necessity."

When living things cross into new territory, they are often viewed as threats. But Sonia Shah, who has written a new book — The Next Great Migration -- says the "invaders" are just following biology.

Two Senate committees will spend the summer investigating allegations against the Biden family and the Obama administration's role in the FBI's 2016 Russia investigation.

In Birmingham, Ala., protesters had felled one monument and were targeting another when Randall Woodfin stepped in, saying he'd ensure it came down. Still, its permanent removal is in question.

"Our religion teaches us that saving lives is an obligation. That is the consideration in this policy," Minister of Religious Affairs Fachrul Razi says.

Today, you can pretend it's 2001: John Mayer visits the World Cafe just after the release of his debut album Room For Squares, which sold over 4 million copies and won him his first Grammy award.