DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has written an extensive letter to President Trump requesting federal law enforcement be withdrawn from the district
Australian Black Lives Matter activists plan to march in defiance of a Supreme Court injunctionPeople protest during a Black Lives Matter rally in Sydney on June 2. Izhar Khan/NurPhoto/Getty Images
Police in the state of New South Wales took the matter to the New South Wales Supreme Court in Sydney on Friday night in a last-ditch attempt to have the protest banned due to coronavirus safety concerns. Fagan added that social distancing has been crucial to Australia’s suppression of the disease. As of Friday, NSW had not had a local contraction of coronavirus for nine days. Four new positive cases announced on Friday involved people returning from overseas.
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