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UNITED STATES—On Saturday, August 8, Alexandria Police Department announces Ibrahm Elkahlil Bouaichi, the homicide suspect of the murder of Karla Elizabeth Dominguez Gonzalez has succumbed to self-inflicted injuries. On July 29, at 6:20 a.m., the police officers responded to a report of shots fired on South Greenmount Drive, Alexandria, Virginia. Officers discovered a dead woman with gunshot wounds on her...

UNITED STATES — President Donald J. Trump signed four executive actions extending coronavirus relief, he announced at a press conference in his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Saturday, August 8. The actions regarding evictions, unemployment benefits, student loans, and payroll taxes, came after the president did not reach an agreement on coronavirus pandemic relief with the U.S Congress. In...

UNITED STATES—As the number of coronavirus cases hovers daily around 50,000 people, cities around the country are increasing their regulations and protective measures to send the outbreaks curve downward. Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti, announced Wednesday that "large house parties have essentially become nightclubs in the hills these large parties are unsafe and can cost Angelenos their lives." As consequence...

UNITED STATES—Former Vice President Joe Biden drew distinctions about the political diversity of American voting populations in an interview released Thursday, August 6. The virtual interview featured journalists from the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. In responding to NPR journalist, Lulu Garcia-Navarro about how Biden would engage with Cuba if he were elected president,...

WASHINGTON D.C.—Around 6 a.m. on Saturday, August 1, Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officials stopped the pro-life group Students for Life of America from writing "Black Pre-Born Lives Matter" on the street in front of a Planned Parenthood facility and subsequently arrested two members of the group. Authorities arrested Erica Caporaletti, a 22 year-old student at Towson University, and Warner...

UNITED STATES—On August 3, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) released an article titled "'Brushing' Scam Indicates a Serious Problem for Victims." This article is in reference to a recently popularized scamming fad, "Brushing," in which unordered items are shipped from Amazon to an individual's doorstep. The merchandise, arriving from Amazon or another retailer with no return address, has ranged from a...

PORTLAND—A riot was declared in Portland on Wednesday for a second night this week. For the 69th night of demonstrations, protestors gathered outside of a southeast Portland police precinct shortly after 9 p.m. on the evening of the 5th and were dispersed with tear gas. Since July 29, demonstrations and confrontations between police and protesters in Portland have moved through the...

CHICAGO—On August 5, Wednesday evening, two children were shot in two separate shootings that occurred about half an hour apart, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) reported. The first incident happened in the South Side on East 102nd Street. The victim, a 14-year-old boy, was walking on the sidewalk with a group of people around 9:40 p.m., when someone in...

PORTLAND, OR—On Wednesday, August 5, the 70th night of daily protesting, the Portland Police Department declared a riot for the second night in a row. Federal officers left their post at the federal courthouse in Portland on July 29. Between then and August 4, protests downtown showed no need for large-scale police responses. Protests from the past two days have...

DETROIT—Wednesday, August 5th, Hakim Littleton's autopsy report was released. Littleton, 20 years old, was fatally shot on the west side by Detroit police officers on July 10. In a video captured on an officer's body camera, Littleton is shown pulling a gun from his shorts' pocket and firing two shots two feet away from a cop. The officer was investigating a...