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Kanye West has launched a college fund for the 6-year-old daughter of George Floyd, who was killed while in police custody. West, 42, set up a 529 college savings fund to cover tuition for Gianna Floyd, his rep told CNN on Thursday. The rapper also donated $2 million to the families and legal teams supporting …

Mike Norvell has some explaining to do to his players. The Florida State football coach claimed to have spoken to each of his players individually about the death of George Floyd and the events that surrounded it, telling The Athletic it was “important to me because this is a heartbreaking time in our country.” But …

As more Americans join nationwide protests following the killing of George Floyd, they’re turning to encrypted messaging apps to communicate with each other. Downloads of mobile apps like Signal — a secure messaging app which offers end-to-end encryption — have skyrocketed, getting nearly 40,000 downloads over last weekend alone, according to data from industry tracker …

Lego this week shut down promotional campaigns and marketing for its toy sets that include police officers, firefighters, criminals and even the White House as protests over the killing of George Floyd grip the US. The Danish toy brick maker instructed Rakuten Linkshare, which handles its marketing, to remove the product listings “ASAP” in “light …

Aaron Rodgers drew praise for his Instagram post that most observers saw as an indirect shot at Drew Brees for his take on players kneeling during the national anthem. Martellus Bennett, however, took issue with Rodgers, whom he played with for seven games in 2017 on the Green Bay Packers. Bennett, the retired tight end, …

Liberals twice as likely as conservatives to say protests are justified. A majority of young, college-educated Americans justify the rioting and looting destroying major urban areas across the country, according to a new poll. Monmouth University researchers found that 62 percent of those aged 18 to 34 believe the actions of protesters were defensible, with …

The Duchess of Sussex has spoken out about racism after the death of George Floyd, apologising to students of her former high school that they are having to “grow up in a world where it is still present”. Meghan described the 46-year-old’s death in Minneapolis as “absolutely devastating” in her recorded video address for their …

It is painful to watch our national crisis unfold. As American cities descend into chaos, small businesses continue to collapse, and millions are thrown out of work, two lines from a poem by William Butler Yeats comes to mind: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, Worries race …

Los Angeles officials announced plans to slash the city’s police budget by up to $150 million in order to reinvest the funding in communities of color, as protests against police brutality and the death of George Floyd continue to rock the city. The city will “identify $250 million in cuts so we can invest in …

North Korea on Wednesday excoriated the U.S. in the midst of George Floyd demonstrations, comparing the country to a setting sun with China rising. “Demonstrators enraged by the extreme racists throng even to the White House,” read a statement in North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun, translated in the New York Times. “This is the …