According to Reuters, Amazon is in early-stage talks to buy a stake in the Indian mobile operator worth at least $2 billion. Bharti Airtel is India’s third-largest telecom company with more than 300 million subscribers.

Brees made the comments during an interview released by Yahoo Finance on Wednesday, after he was asked for his thoughts on NFL players kneeling again when the season begins. Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas was among the athletes and activists who pushed back against the comments amid the ongoing protests following the death of George Floyd.

According to multiple outlets, including The Associated Press and The Washington Post, the chemical irritants used by officers on Monday to disperse protesters at Lafayette Square is classified as tear gas by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At the time of the incident, witnesses and media on the scene reported that police deployed tear gas before President Trump walked across the street to St John’s Church for a photo.

The Associated Press reports that more than 10,000 people have now been arrested during demonstrations, marches, riots and curfews as thousands took to the streets across the US to protest racism and police brutality in the wake of the death of George Floyd.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said at a press conference on Wednesday that he doesn’t support using active-duty forces in a law enforcement role — a stance in contrast to the US president's threat of deploying the US military to rein in protests against racial injustice across the United States. According to a Bloomberg report, Trump has since privately asked advisers if Esper can still be effective in his role. However, on Wednesday afternoon, Esper abruptly reversed a decision to send 200 active-duty troops home from Washington D.C., following a meeting at the White House.

A 43-year-old German man has been identified as a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann 13 years after the then 3-year-old girl disappeared in Portugal.

An impromptu rendition of Bill Wither's Lean on Me rang out in Washington D.C. as George Floyd protests continued for the sixth consecutive day. Earlier, crowds also sang Amazing Grace near the White House while taking the knee as law enforcement looked on. In the latest developments, the Trump administration reversed a decision to send active-duty soldiers home from the nation's capital.

The ex-defense secretary denounced President Donald Trump’s methods of handling the intensifying situation regarding the past week’s protests in response to George Floyd's death in police custody. Mattis, who has generally kept a low profile since retiring in December 2018, said he never dreamed troops would be used to quell the protests and accused the president of dividing the nation.

The editorial penned by the Republican senator called for "an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers." Several Times journalists denounced the publishing of the piece, tweeting "Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger," while the NYT's editorial page editor James Bennet defended the decision to run with Cotton's editorial. In recent days, several local, state and federal government officials have publicly opposed the use of military force, which was considered by US President Donald Trump earlier in the week.

Several outlets including The Verge, AP and Lead Stories concluded that MSNBC did not use footage from the 2013 movie World War Z during their coverage of protests in the US, including Atlanta and Philadelphia.

On Thursday morning, news correspondent Ben Avery was ambushed by crowds while he was on-air reporting on protests happening in London. He's the second Nine reporter to be attacked while reporting on protests over the death of George Floyd.

The former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified in Senate Judiciary Committee hearing meant to generally examine the the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. In his testimony, Rosenstein claimed that he would not have signed an application to surveil Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser. The Justice Department had found multiple errors in the applications to monitor Page and said it had "insufficient predication" to continue the surveillance.

After actor Samantha Ware’s accusation that Lea Michele made her "first television gig a living hell”, the Glee star issued her apology: “What matters is that I clearly acted in ways which hurt other people.”

Former US president Barack Obama made remarks on the protests surrounding police brutality and the death of George Floyd for the first time on camera in a livestream as part of the Obama Foundation’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance Town Hall series. Former Attorney General Eric Holder and other activists calling on police reforms also joined the panel.

Black Lives Matter organizers wanted to bring the rage over the George Floyd case and so many others to L.A.'s elites, in their own neighborhoods.

Mukesh and Anil Ambani began their careers as intimate collaborators, with once describing their approach as “two bodies, one mind.” But after the death of their father who founded Reliance almost five decades ago, they grew increasingly estranged.

On Wednesday, Ellison elevated charges against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to second-degree murder. The three other officers involved in the death of George Floyd were also charged with aiding and abetting murder.