Friday's Headlines: Battle over Confederate statues resumes in America’s enduring Civil War
Trump pushes fights over racist legacy while much of America moves in a different direction; Quarrel between president and military brass grows as Milley calls presence at photo op a mistake; Company stands to profit on 'flip' of taxpayer-funded coronavirus drug; Scientists look into whether vaccines for tuberculosis, polio could help ward off covid-19; Trump's Tulsa rally sign-up page includes coronavirus liability disclaimer; Trump might go down in history as the last president of the Confederacy; Gen. Milley's apology shows respect for the principles Trump tramples on; Educate yourselves before you wear my traditional kente cloth; NASCAR's Confederate flag ban is long overdue. But I'll believe it when I see it.; We seek reforms to policing. But something even deeper needs repair. ; Biden is invisible. Trump is running against himself. ; Border officials spent humanitarian aid on dirt bikes, dogs and more, report says; Trump's most loyal media ally promised a pro-Trump poll. It didn't deliver — and then it pulled its story.; 'Almost blasphemous,' says historian: Trump plans political rally in Tulsa, site of a race massacre, on Juneteenth ; Trump won't rename Army posts that honor Confederates. Here's why they're named after traitors. ; A new system of public safety: What it means to 'defund the police'
The grass-roots response to George Floyd's death in police custody took less than two weeks to morph from protests and demands for police reform into a concerted attack on symbols of the Confederacy.
The admission of regret from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs capped nearly two weeks of public discomfort with and condemnation of the president's leadership from revered military figures.
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The rapid turnaround of rights to a publicly financed drug highlights the frenzy of financial speculation that has accompanied the spread of the virus.
The century-old inoculation against tuberculosis and decades-old polio vaccine are oddities among the cutting-edge and targeted technologies being developed to combat the novel coronavirus.
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A new Government Accountability Office report finds some of the $4.6 billion emergency funding approved last year was spent on enforcement-related items rather than on migrant families and children.
One America News's survey of Floridians, conducted by Gravis Marketing, showed Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden tied in a must-win state for the president.
Ten bases were named after Confederates after the Army courted Southerners to accumulate large swaths of land in the early 20th century up through World War II.
What the movement to "defund the police" wants. Joe Biden's complicated history on criminal justice. And a new hope for patients whose lungs have suffered from covid-19.
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