Scientists funded by Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropy are calling on Facebook Inc. to create and enforce stricter policies on misinformation and harmful language following the social network's handling of President Donald Trump's posts suggesting violence against protesters.

Zuckerberg received a letter on Saturday signed by 143 scientists from ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Video of police officers in plain clothes and military-style uniforms arresting a female protester Thursday -- and taking her away in an unmarked van as bystanders screamed for the officers to identify themselves -- spread on social media this week, raising eyebrows and concerns.

In the 45-second clip posted on Twitter, just after ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The Long Beach police officer responsible for posting photos on his social media, including one showing him standing over blood with his baton, this week amid days of protests held in the city to remember George Floyd has been "relieved from employment," the department announced Friday night.

"Our organization is dedicated to our...Read more

ATLANTA -- A little past 7 p.m. Tuesday, police officers standing guard outside the state Capitol decided enough was enough.

A crowd protesting racial injustice had been chanting for hours, sometimes spilling into Washington Street, sometimes shouting epithets at the officers. It was almost two hours before Atlanta's citywide curfew would ...Read more

In late May, Jennifer Miles Lockhart marched across the Brooklyn Bridge with a throng of New Yorkers to demand equality and justice for African Americans like her. Now, with the city finally about to emerge from its pandemic lockdown, she was back in midtown Manhattan, prepping the offices of one of the biggest U.S. banks for its own reopening. ...Read more

PARIS -- Thousands of anti-racism protesters gathered in several French cities on Saturday, including the capital, Paris, where they defied a police ban.

Protests also took place in Lyon, Lille and Rennes, according to local news reports.

Some 23,000 people demonstrated nationwide, 5,500 of them in Paris, French media reported, citing the ...Read more

Thousands of Australians gathered in the nation's major cities to protest racial discrimination against indigenous Australians and to express support for the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S.

In Sydney, a ruling to ban the Saturday rally was overturned on appeal just minutes before its scheduled 3 p.m. start. Marchers carried the ...Read more

The Federal Reserve is about to launch a $600 billion gambit to save swaths of U.S. businesses and tens of millions of jobs threatened by the coronavirus crisis. Wall Street is far from confident the Fed can pull it off.

At issue is the Main Street Lending Program, a high-stakes juggling act whose success likely hinges on multiple factors: ...Read more

President Donald Trump's directive to pull 9,500 troops from Germany hits home hard for friends of America like Edgar Knobloch, whose Bavarian town has been home to U.S. service members for seven decades.

Like Chancellor Angela Merkel, the mayor of Grafenwoehr was caught off guard. It's the latest sign of the U.S.'s deterioration of ties with a...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Over the years, hunger strikes have been a tool used to bring attention to what's happening inside immigrant detention facilities.

Advocates say that hunger strikes are a form of free speech to make the public aware of detainee suffering. U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement has said that "it fully respects the rights of all ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- In March, during a frantic effort to equip the state for the pandemic, California Gov. Gavin Newsom set an ambitious goal of buying 10,000 ventilators to ensure hospitals weren't overwhelmed by a surge in COVID-19 patients.

That surge in critically sick patients didn't materialize as forecast, which is fortunate for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- In more than a week of civil unrest since the killing of George Floyd, Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore has been at the helm of a massive police response, which has included the controversial firing of foam bullets and arresting of peaceful protesters.

Some of those tactics and a remark he made in an empty room at City Hall ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- As their virtual graduation approached and as their city erupted in widespread protests over the death of George Floyd, students at Granada Hills Charter High School in Los Angeles took a stand in their own campus community against online, anti-black comments.

After reading racist online remarks that were written by fellow ...Read more