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Toyota, Honda and Hyundai were among the automakers Tuesday to report double-digit sales losses for last month compared to a year earlier.

Amazon is still finalizing details around the event, but it has been given a working title of the "Biggest Sale in the Sky."

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.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday told employees he was standing firm in the company's decision not to moderate a post in which President Trump said "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."

Twitter on Tuesday appointed former Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette as the company's new executive chairman.

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.

Facebook is committing $10 million to "groups working on social justice," while Cisco is contributing $5 million to organizations.

Many companies have released statements or ads about racism and police brutality in the days since George Floyd's death in Minneapolis.

"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.

The leaders said Zuckerberg gave "incomprehensible explanations" for not taking action against President Trump's "looting ... shooting" post.

The GDPNow outlook is now showing a 52.8% tumble, following data that manufacturing remains firmly in decline and will weigh on investment and consumption.

"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.

New coronavirus hospitalizations across the state hit an all-time low since the beginning of the outbreak at a three-day average of 154 on Monday, according to a chart Cuomo presented on Tuesday.

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

The NPD Group found that restaurant transactions declined just 18% during the week ended May 24.

On Monday several black leaders in business and finance voiced their reaction to CNBC over the killing of George Floyd and the protests that followed, saying the unrest is a result of both racial injustice and racial disparity in wealth between African Americans and whites in the U.S.

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.

All of Amazon and Whole Foods' full- and part-time workers will have access to the benefit through Oct. 2.

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.