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California sets record with fires burning 2M acres

Latest fire caused by a couple's plan to reveal their baby's gender when the device they used sparked a wildfire that burned thousands of acres and forced people to flee from a city east of Los Angeles.

US television legend Regis Philbin dies at 88

Philbin made the Guinness Book of World Records for the most broadcast hours logged by a TV personality, about 17,000 hours.

Hundreds rally across major US cities to protest racial inequality

Workers join a nationwide demonstration demanding improvement of Black Americans' experiences in the workplace.

Emmy Awards to go ahead, host Jimmy Kimmel says still figuring out how

ABC, part of Walt Disney Co, gave no details for how the Sept. 20 show, which hands out the highest honors in television, would be produced in an era when the coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of multiple live events.

More protests in Atlanta after police fatally shoot another black man

Georgia prosecutors said they were weighing bringing charges against the police officer who shot dead 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy's parking lot in Atlanta on Friday night.

Nationwide anti-racism protests force US states to consider reforms

Anti-racism protests continue in the US as statues, monuments and buildings of US historical leaders who carried out policies viewed as racist are being removed, following last month's police killing of unarmed black man George Floyd.

Racism is being recorded - and that’s why the French want cameras banned

Several French lawmakers are now compelled to hinder accountability, not racial injustice.

'Stop the pain,' George Floyd's brother testifies before US Congress

Protesters will take to the streets across the US again, a day after the funeral of George Floyd, whose death in police custody has ignited the biggest surge of anti-racism activism since the civil rights era of the 1960s.

Houston bids farewell to George Floyd in hometown funeral

Floyd, who was 46 when he was killed during a police arrest over counterfeit money, has been laid to rest next to his mother in Houston where he grew up.

What protests in the US tell us

Racism is not going away any time soon, and neither will moments like the George Floyd killing.

A pandemic on top of police brutalities increase divisions in US

Experts say a constructive leadership is sometimes the better response to growing unrest than a heavy-handed approach, which might only increase anger.

Minneapolis police face civil rights probe over Floyd death

Thousands of demonstrators defiantly remained on the streets across the US even after curfews put in place in some states following unrest in the wake of the police killing of unarmed black man George Floyd in Minneapolis.