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.

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.

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.

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.

According to journalists on the scene, a number of military vehicles arrived in Washington D.C, as protests continued near the White House. Multiple reports say the decision to pull back active military from the nation’s capital amid ongoing protests on police brutality and the death of George Floyd was reversed following a White House meeting. Read on for the latest news and updates, scenes from protests, and information on the George Floyd case.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

According to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, the NBA Board of Governors will meet on Thursday with the intention of approving the league's plan for a 22-team return-to-play in Orlando starting on July 31 and running through October 12. Under the plan, 13 Western Conference teams and nine Eastern Conference teams will play eight regular season games to determine playoff seeding.

Thousands of people have joined the peaceful #BlackLivesMatter protest in London, which is being held in response to the death of George Floyd in the US and railway worker Belly Mujinga in the UK.

Many shared images and sketches to express their anger and grief after a pregnant elephant died in Kerala. She allegedly ate a pineapple stuffed with fireworks and local forest officials have launched an investigation.

"Show us that you're here for us . . . Make history with us, please!"

"We can either be killed by Covid-19 just as easily as we can be killed by a cop.” Black protesters are risking their lives to fight injustice even as the coronavirus hits black Americans the hardest.