The settlement’s size signifies that a Black person's death at the hands of police "will no longer be written off as trivial, unimportant or unworthy of consequences," an attorney for the Floyd family said.

The nationwide demonstrations have moved to the forefront of Trump's re-election campaign for the November 3, 2020, Presidential Election.

David Afanador had already been suspended from the New York Police Department without pay.

"Are you with anarchist groups?" was one typical question. "Are you in Antifa?" was another.

Architects and engineers who spent over five years repairing the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, say that Notre Dame's rebuilding is unlikely to be quick.

The bill, now signed into law, imposes a 21-year-old legal age requirement and three-day waiting period on all gun purchases.

The US senator from Vermont will be allowed to name five members to the 15-member committee that writes the platform at the Democratic National Convention in late July in Philadelphia even if he is not the party's presidential nominee.