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- Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan tests positive for COVID-19. (Reuters)
International relations
- United States–Zimbabwe relations, George Floyd protests
- Zimbabwe summons the U.S. envoy for comments by U.S. National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien suggesting that Zimbabwe is among "foreign adversaries" that could face retaliation for trying to foment unrest in the U.S. over the death of George Floyd. (AP News)
Law and crime
- George Floyd protests
- Forty cities across the United States impose overnight curfews in order to quell the violence from the protests. (CNN)
- Police and National Guard troops open fire on a group of protesters after allegedly being fired upon in Louisville, Kentucky, resulting in the death of a man. (CNN)
- Two protesters are shot and killed during riots in Davenport, Iowa. In a separate incident, a police vehicle is ambushed, resulting in the wounding of an officer. (The Des Moines Register)
- Anonymous sources suggest President Donald Trump is considering invoking the 1807 Insurrection Act to deploy the military to respond to protests throughout the country. (NBC News)
- An active duty military police battalion of 200 to 250 troops are deployed in the U.S. capital Washington, D.C. to provide security as violent protests continue. Defense officials say the troops are from Fort Bragg in North Carolina. (CNN)
- Death of George Floyd
- An independent autopsy concluded George Floyd died of "asphyxiation from sustained pressure" and that there was "neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain" and that Floyd died at the scene of his arrest and not at the hospital, contradicting the Hennepin County, Minnesota coroner's report. (USA Today)