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AMERICA PROTESTS-ANTIFA-Q&A — President Donald Trump has blamed antifa activists for violence at protests over police killings of black people. But the antifa isn’t an organization -- it’s an umbrella term for far-left leaning militant groups -- and targeting it isn’t simple. By Eric Tucker. UPCOMING: 800 words by 4 p.m., photos.

AMERICA PROTESTS-SUBURBS — In several cities that have locked down city centers amid violent unrest spinning off of protests over police brutality, trouble has spread out through neighborhoods and into surrounding suburbs. Multiple malls and shopping centers outside Chicago saw vandalism and theft, including in North Riverside, Illinois, where one person was shot as a mall was ransacked. In the San Francisco suburb of Walnut Creek, dozens of stores were vandalized and police fired tear gas to disperse crowds. In some cases, authorities are being criticized for leaving areas outside of downtowns vulnerable. By Tammy Webber and Sophia Tareen. UPCOMING: 850 words. AP Photos.

AMERICA PROTESTS-WORLD REACTION — Long the target of American criticism, countries like China, Iran, Russia and North Korea have seized upon the unrest that followed the killing of George Floyd as an opportunity to instead fire back at the U.S. SENT: 600 words, photos.

AMERICA PROTESTS-KENTUCKY — Louisville’s police chief says officers and National Guard soldiers enforcing the city’s curfew returned fire and killed a man when someone in a large group fired at them. SENT: 660 words, phots.

AMERICA PROTESTS-MUSIC INDUSTRY — The music industry is planning to turn off the music and hold a day to reflect and implement change in response to the death of George Floyd and the killings of other black people. Several top record labels organized a Black Out Tuesday as riots erupted around the world sparked by the Floyd’s death as well as the killings of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. SENT:670 words.

AMERICA PROTESTS-NYC — New York’s mayor says he is considering putting the nation’s biggest city under curfew after nights of destruction followed three days of largely peaceful protests over George Floyd’s death. SENT: 400 words, photos, video.

AMERICA PROTESTS-ATLANTA-EXCESSIVE FORCE — Two police officers have been fired and three others placed on desk duty over excessive use of force during a protest arrest incident involving two college students, Atlanta’s mayor says. SENT: 940 words, photos.

AMERICA PROTESTS-MINNEAPOLIS-FREEWAY PROTESTERS — Authorities say the driver of a semitrailer who rolled into the midst of thousands of people marching on a closed Minneapolis freeway over the death of George Floyd has been arrested on suspicion of assault. SENT: 400 words, photos, video.

AMERICA-PROTESTS-POLICE-TACTICS — As protests grip the nation, officers have doused crowds with pepper spray, struck protesters with batons, steered police cars into throngs, shoved demonstrators and screamed curses. Some police action has been directed against people smashing windows, breaking into stores and burning cars, but many find other instances more difficult to understand — like the elderly man knocked over by police as he walked with a cane on a Salt Lake City sidewalk. By Jay Reeves and Kat Stafford. SENT: 1,020 words, photos.

AMERICA-PROTESTS-CORONAVIRUS-TRACKING — Protests erupting across the nation over the past week — and law enforcement’s response to them — are threatening to upend efforts by health officials to track and contain the spread of coronavirus just as those efforts were finally getting underway. By Medical Writer Mike Stobbe. SENT: 790 words, photos. Also see MORE ON AMERICA PROTESTS below.

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