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In the United States, where hundreds of Black people fall victim to police brutality each year, very few police officers are ever prosecuted or convicted for the violence they inflict on the communities and individuals they are supposed to protect.

The US coronavirus death toll has passed 200,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

Mr Obama - the first black president and husband of Michelle Obama - said the book would "try to provide an honest account of my presidency".

Kemp Powers’ play One Night in Miami has such a perfect premise that when he hit upon it, he must have hurtled towards his notebook or his laptop, desperate to get it on the page and the stage before anyone else. The big idea was to imagine what happened on 25 February 1964, when the 22-year-old Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston in Florida to become the world heavyweight boxing champion, and then met up with three close friends, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown. All four men were black American icons. All four were at turning points in their lives. Two of them would be murdered within the next year.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden have been trading insults over each other's position on a vaccine for Covid-19.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has met the family of a black man shot in the back by police on a visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin.

The UK government has denied reports that it is to drop a recently introduced tax on global technology companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon, due to fears that the so-called “Facebook tax” could jeopardise a post-Brexit trade deal.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hasn't yet been tested for Covid-19, but his deputy campaign manager said Sunday that he hasn't had the virus.