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Seattle mayor orders “occupied” area cleared, police arrive

8:22 pm July 1, 2020

Seattle: Seattle police converged on the city’s “occupied” protest zone early Wednesday after Mayor Jenny Durkan issued an executive order for protesters to vacate the area. People have occupied several blocks around a park and the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct for about two weeks after police abandoned the building following standoffs and clashes with protesters calling for racial justice and […]

Another shooting in Seattle’s protest zone leaves 1 dead

10:38 pm June 29, 2020

Seattle: One man was killed and another wounded early Monday in Seattle‘s “occupied” protest zone — the second deadly shooting in the area. Police said the shooting happened before dawn in the city’s Capitol Hill neighbourhood, near downtown. The Seattle Times reports that Harborview Medical Center said one wounded man was brought to the hospital in a private vehicle at about […]

Shooting in Seattle protest zone leaves 1 dead, 1 injured

12:17 am June 21, 2020

Seattle: One person was killed and another was in critical condition in a pre-dawn shooting in Seattle’s protest zone, authorities said Saturday. The shooting happened at about 3 a.m. in the area near downtown known as CHOP, which stands for “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” zone, police said in a statement on Twitter. Seattle Police Sgt. […]

Pelosi: Confederate symbols ‘have to go’ from Capitol, bases

12:03 am June 12, 2020

Washington: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that it’s time to remove symbols honoring Confederate figures from the US Capitol building and military bases as the pandemic and racial unrest force a national reckoning with racial discrimination. “These names have to go from these bases and these statues have to go from the Capitol,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference. […]

Trump slams media for 'blocking' alleged graft cases against Biden

Trump says US on top as outbreak shuts largest cities

3:01 pm March 21, 2020

New York: New York and Illinois followed California Friday in locking down to stem the coronavirus pandemic as President Donald Trump declared the United States was already “winning” the war despite a rapid rise in confirmed cases and deaths. Malaysia to deploy army to enforce virus restrictions The move effectively seals off America’s largest cities […]