Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is under fire from the Republican party over his response to violence after the death of George Floyd in 2020. During recent appearances in Minnesota, Donald Trump falsely claimed that he personally was responsible, while president, for deploying the National Guard. It was actually Walz who gave the orders. Two nonpartisan external reviews, released in March 2022, found shortcomings in the city and state responses.
Jury selection was scheduled to begin Monday in the federal trial of three former Memphis officers charged with violating the civil rights of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old man whose fatal beating was caught on police cameras, triggering protests and calls for police reform. The officers have pleaded not guilty to charges that they deprived Nichols of his rights through excessive force and failure to intervene, and obstructed justice through witness tampering.
Typhoon Yagi and its effects continue to devastate Vietnam over the weekend. A bus carrying 20 people was swept into a flooded stream by a landslide in mountainous Cao Bang province on Monday morning. State media said four bodies were recovered from the bus and one person was rescued alive. The others were still missing. The death toll is now at 64.
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