The Covid Corner: President Trump is scheduled to speak today to the graduating class at West Point, which was brought back from coronavirus furlough at the president’s orders. All the cadets were put into a two-week quarantine leading to today.  Family and …

Viral News: The Dow Jones dropped 1,860 points yesterday on investor fears that the coronavirus is making a major resurgence in the US that will further stall the economy.   The Dow dropped 7 percent and the S&P, 6 percent.   This morning, …

Pandemic: As coronavirus cases continue rising in 21 states, the Federal Reserve says unemployment will remain over nine percent through the end of the year, President Trump is planning political rallies with no health precautions, but the Coachella Music festival and …

Man of Change: Forty-six-year-old George Floyd, whose death at the hands of the Minneapolis police set off weeks of protests all over the country, was buried yesterday in Houston after several memorials and a funeral service.    The final service was broken …

Nine members of the Minneapolis City Council, a veto-proof majority, pledged yesterday to dismantle the city’s police department and create a new system of public safety in the city where law enforcement has a troubled racial history.

Choke Hold on the Country: As demonstrations continue in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, police departments across the country are beginning to re-examine their use of force policies, even as some cops continue to carry …

Situation Report: Mostly peaceful protests continued into their 10th day as charges were filed against four former Minneapolis police officers in the death of 46-year-old George Floyd.   Former President Barack Obama, in a rare weigh-in on national issues, called for police reform …

Teargas and God: President Trump last night said the violence and demonstrations following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis are “acts of domestic terror” shortly before teargas and rubber bullets were deployed to clear his way of peaceful demonstrators …

Anger and Flames: American cities roiled and burned over the weekend in continuing protest and violence over the police killing of 46-year-old George Floyd in Minneapolis a week ago.   Police, and demonstrators and vandals clashed in the cities of Detroit, Philadelphia, …

Death by Cop: Four Minneapolis police officers have been fired after the death of an unarmed black man who pleaded that he could not breathe while one cop pinned him to the ground with a knee on his neck. The incident …