In a video recorded for students graduating from her old high school in Los Angeles, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex called the current events in the US "devastating" and said she was sorry that children had to grow up in a world where racism still existed.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump posted a Tweet falsely claiming he fired former secretary of defense James Mattis. Mattis resigned from the position in December of 2018 after the administration decided to withdraw US troops from Syria, according to Associated Press. In the Tweet, President Trump also incorrectly claims that he changed Mattis’ nickname from "Chaos" to "Mad Dog". However, there are published references to James Mattis being referred to as “Mad Dog" by his troops as early as 2004.

After 78 days of being shuttered amid the COVID-19 pandemic, casinos in Las Vegas and throughout Nevada were allowed to reopen at 12:01 am on Thursday.

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.

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.

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.

An additional 1.88 million Americans filed jobless claims last week, bringing the eleven-week unemployment claims total to over 42.6 million since the COVID-19 crisis gripped the economy in March.

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.

Terence Monahan, the commissioner of the New York Police Department, asked Governor Andrew Cuomo to make a public apology after saying police "did not do their jobs" during protests. Cuomo initially called Monahan privately to personally apologize, but made a statement during his Wednesday briefing.

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.

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.

The Department of Transportation announced that it will block Chinese airlines from flying into the US starting on June 16. The move comes in response to China's decision to limit the number of US carriers from flying between the two countries.

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.”