CHICAGO (Reuters) – Many Chicagoans vehemently oppose President Donald Trump’s promise to send federal officials to the third-largest city in the US, after seeing camouflaged agents deployed to a Portland club and protesters anti-racism with tear gas. Chicago Police shell markers are seen where a 37-year-old man riding a bicycle …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – United States Republican Senator Tom Cotton described slavery as “a necessary evil” in an attack published in a New York Times initiative to make slavery the focal point of American history for women. American schools. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) speaks during a Senate Intelligence …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – On Sunday, July 5, five days after China enacted a new national security law in Hong Kong, Yang Xiaolan and three dozen members of Falun Gong were standing in a public park, holding their arms spread over closed eyes while meditating. soundtrack mixed with birdsong. Yang …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Hundreds of Thai protesters sang a jingle of Japanese cartoons on Sunday with taunts mocking the government as hungry hamsters feast on taxpayer money, part of a new youth protest movement that they say are using whimsical tactics for serious purposes. Thai youth have been challenging the …
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SEATTLE (Reuters) – Dozens were arrested and many police officers wounded in clashes around Seattle’s biggest Black Lives Matter protest in weeks on Saturday, police said, with renewed energy sparked by violent clashes between activists and federal agents in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. Police said officers used non-lethal weapons …
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