Bristling in response to questions about troop deployments to Los Angeles, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attacked Gov. Tim Walz with a false claim.

Hegseth has deployed thousands of troops to Los Angeles in recent days to suppress protests against the Trump administration's deportations. He has faced criticism from California Gov. Gavin Newsom ...

Hegseth likens Minnesota's Walz during George Floyd protest to California's Newsom Hegseth invoked the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, saying Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz "abandoned a police precinct ...

FILE – Protesters gather calling for justice for George Floyd, May 26, 2020, in Minneapolis. (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via AP, File) For them, they were saying, we are Black.

Five years ago, on May 25, 2020, a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, during an arrest. Although ample evidence showed that Chauvin and police ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Police reform and civil-rights activists joined thousands of ordinary people Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder and decry the Trump administration for ...

On May 25, 2020, Floyd was pinned by his neck and killed by police in the street in south Minneapolis. His death sparked a historic wave of calls to action to end police brutality and systemic racism.

Five years after George Floyd's death, NPR's Michel Martin talks with Toluse Olorunnipa and Robert Samuels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of His Name is George Floyd.

The murder heard around the world marks its fifth anniversary Sunday. For the record: 8:37 a.m. May 23, 2025An earlier version of this article stated that Derek Chauvin placed his knee on George ...

This week the nation remembers George Floyd as a victim of police brutality. We don't have to agree about his character to agree that his murder was a symbol of racial injustice.

Two autopsies ruled George Floyd’s death a homicide, but a false narrative about Floyd dying of a drug overdose quickly emerged. Five years later it persists.