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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday evening for voters in Minneapolis to decide on the future of policing in the city where George Floyd was killed, just ahead of the start of early and absentee voting. The state’s highest court overturned a lower court ruling that rejected ballot language approved by the City Council. […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The economy is a bit wobbly, but General Motors CEO Mary Barra isn’t backing off of an audacious prediction: By the middle of this decade, her company will sell more electric vehicles in the U.S. than Tesla, the global sales leader. To fulfill that pledge in as little as 2 1/2 […]

The trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of George Floyd continues Friday after a week of emotional testimony from witnesses to his arrest and Floyd’s longtime girlfriend.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jury selection for a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death was halted before it began Monday by the state’s effort to add a third-degree murder charge. As hundreds of protesters rallied outside the courthouse to call for Derek Chauvin’s conviction, Judge Peter Cahill said he did not have jurisdiction […]

President Joe Biden is set to meet with several city mayors and law enforcement leaders from all over the United States to discuss reducing crime nationwide. Newly Memphis Police Chief CJ Davis will have a seat at the table.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Democrats on Wednesday braced for renewed Republican attacks on their management of crime across the U.S. after residents in San Francisco voted overwhelmingly to recall the city’s progressive district attorney, suggesting that even the party’s most loyal supporters are frustrated with the way in which violence and social problems are being […]

President Joe Biden said the death of George Floyd shifted the ground on racial issues in the United States.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis’s new police chief CJ Davis visited a Whitehaven barbershop Tuesday, and workers say they were pleased to have her. Davis went by “E. Massey’s” off Shelby Drive to talk about violent crime. “People should be angry. Just like they marched when George Floyd got killed, you should be marching and angry […]

John Langley, who was the creator of the long-running TV series “Cops,” has died during a road race in Mexico, a family spokeswoman said. He was 78.

A woman was killed and another person was injured after being struck by a car during a protest in Minneapolis’ Uptown neighborhood where a Black man was fatally shot earlier this month during an arrest attempt, police said Monday.

Amazon said Tuesday that it will extend its ban on police use of its face-recognition technology beyond the one-year pause it announced last year.