The MLB season opens with two games on Thursday night, and as surreal as the scene might appear in the age of coronavirus … it’s still baseball.
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Oregon officials decry militarized federal agents after protest clashes
Rallies against systemic racism and police brutality are a nightly feature in deeply liberal Portland since Minneapolis police killed George Floyd on May 25.
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Breonna Taylor protesters sat on the Kentucky attorney general’s lawn. Police charged 87 with felonies.
Three police officers who fatally shot Taylor, 26, inside her home while she was asleep, have not been criminally charged in her death.
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Homeland Security gets new role under Trump monument order
Now it is in the role of supporting Trump’s law-and-order campaign, raising questions about overstepping the duties of local law enforcement.
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Atlanta’s WNBA owner Loeffler objects to league’s social justice plans
Kelly Loeffler, also a Republican U.S. senator running for re-election in Georgia, says uniforms and apparel should display the American flag and not “Black Lives Matter” and “Say Her Name.”
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Lewiston mayor announces appointments to equity and diversity committee
The ad hoc committee will review the process by which public complaints against police officers and other city employees are investigated, among other goals.
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Mookie Betts: Baseball didn’t do good job with response to George Floyd killing
Former Red Sox star says, ‘Baseball did not do a good job with that, but voices were heard.’
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Boston’s Brown plans to bring social justice fight to NBA restart in Florida
Jaylen Brown has been an outspoken voice to raise awareness on many fronts, and says he plans to ‘play for something bigger than myself’ in Florida.
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Trump says NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace should apologize for noose ‘hoax’
The tweet was the latest in a string of racially tinged overtures the president has made to his political base.
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Facebook groups formed to protest virus restrictions pivot to attacks on Black Lives Matter
One group transforms itself from ‘Reopen California’ to ‘California Patriots Pro Law & Order,’ with recent posts changing the slogan to ‘White Lives Matter.’