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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.

Will Republicans get behind the idea of a second round of stimulus checks? They might, due to pressure from the president and the fact that more Americans are careening toward financial disaster.

President Trump chastised governors at a remote meeting about how to end violent protests: "You have to dominate, if you don't dominate you're wasting your time."

The DOJ last month abruptly dropped its prosecution of Flynn, who had repeatedly pleaded guilty in court to lying to the FBI about his conversations with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the weeks prior to Trump's inauguration.

It was not immediately clear what Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley would be tasked with.

Some Americans and voting rights groups are concerned that the pandemic is forcing voters to choose between avoiding contact with people to stay healthy and exercising their right to vote. Come November, these concerns might still linger.

Illinois Gov. Jay Pritzker and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer criticized President Donald Trump for his comments on the George Floyd protests.

"Now is the time to go big" to keep America from dividing into two separate and unequal societies, Robert Johnson said in a CNBC interview.

CNBC looked at how Floyd's death and its impact on some of the biggest names on Biden's VP shortlist: Rep. Val Demings and Sens. Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren.

Obama published a blog post on Medium urging activists to reject feeling cynical about the importance of voting.

Since his inauguration, Trump has espoused the need for his administration to take an "America First" approach to foreign policy.

China's state media is hitting back at American President Donald Trump's announcement last week that he would be revoking Hong Kong's favored trade status with the U.S.

Joe Biden has surged past President Donald Trump in raising cash from the health-care industry. The development comes as Trump falls in the polls during his response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer who was filmed kneeling on George Floyd's neck before he died, is in custody and has been charged with murder, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Friday.

As McConnell pledges caution, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are pushing him to quickly approve more coronavirus relief measures.

Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. at the time, Sergey Kislyak. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice moved to drop its case against Flynn.

Republican National Convention organizers appear to have hit an impasse with the state of North Carolina over whether they will be required to practice social distancing at the party's nominating convention, scheduled to be held in Charlotte in late August.