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The family of George Floyd and their lawyer called for a first-degree murder charge to be filed against ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin after a new independent autopsy found that Floyd died as the result of asphyxiation from sustained pressure on his neck.

While President Donald Trump did not specify in his tweet where the convention will be moved, multiple governors and GOP officials from places such as Texas and Georgia have already offered up their states as potential hosts.

Black Americans have taken the brunt of the coronavirus damage and are more concerned about the pandemic than other racial groups.

Powerful GOP donor Paul Singer is founder and co-CEO of a hedge fund with a seat on Twitter's board. But that doesn't mean he can influence the social media giant's policies to be more sympathetic to his party.

In a contentious call with the nation's governors Monday, Trump described Joint Chiefs Chairman U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley as "a warrior" with "a lot of victories and no losses," according to audio obtained by NBC.

"Our embassy in the United States will approach the relevant authorities, and Channel Seven will also provide us with their views on how they wish to deal with it," Foreign Minister Marise Payne said Tuesday.

Bush has largely avoided the spotlight since leaving office in 2009. Former President Barack Obama on Monday shared his own thoughts about the protests over Floyd's death.

Biden supporters and bundlers have seen a massive uptick in new contributions and donor commitments since the protests began last week, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Both chambers of Congress are largely composed of white people. But the number of nonwhite lawmakers has gradually increased in the House at a faster rate than in the Senate.

"Their understanding was that they were going out of the White House to go into Lafayette Park to review the efforts to address the protests," explained a senior Defense official on a call with Pentagon reporters.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to attend the funeral next week of George Floyd, the black man who died at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer, a lawyer for Floyd's family said.

"As much as we want the conditions surrounding COVID-19 to be favorable enough for you to hold the Convention you describe in late August, it is very unlikely," North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said in a letter to Republican officials.

Former Vice President Joe Biden addressed the ongoing civil unrest across the nation, calling it a "wake-up call" for America.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo slammed Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday for not deploying enough police officers to stem looting in the state's most populous city after a night of widespread property destruction and hundreds of arrests.

President Trump thanked himself on Twitter for what he said was relative peace on the streets of Washington and Minneapolis after days of protests over George Floyd's death.

The latest revelation comes as the last of five Iranian tankers carrying gasoline was escorted by Venezuela's navy through the South American country's waters this week.

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that appointments to Puerto Rico's financial oversight board were constitutional.

In a last minute address from the White House, Trump threatened to deploy the military if states and cities failed to quell demonstrations.

Today in America, you have Covid-19 bringing biblical plague to the black community. The job loss is already at depression level, and now you have civil unrest following the killing of George Floyd.

Data compiled by researchers have served as an important source of information about how often people in the United States are killed by police, and who is most likely to be killed.