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Petitioners alleged that Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan "endangered the peace and safety of the community" by allowing police to use tear gas against protesters in June.

Washington state and Texas reported the highest increases in average positivity rates over the past two weeks.

"Now is the time to accelerate the fundamental preventive measures that we all talk about," Fauci said Thursday.

Forecasters say tropical storm Isaias could cause significant flooding in some East Coast areas, with heavy rainfall expected as it travels further north over the next few days.

The state's seven-day rolling average of new deaths has spiked by 50 percent since last week.

The late Alabama congressman and civil rights leader will be honored during memorial events at the U.S. Capitol.

"DHS now says they have a limited number of agents in the area on standby to protect federal buildings," Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan wrote.

Mississippi saw the largest jump in the country over the last 14 days.

The customer could be heard saying, "I don't need one" before he began cursing at a restaurant employee and a person recording the incident nearby.

Leezia Dhalla posted a video of the incident outside a CVS Pharmacy in Washington on Twitter.

A suspect has been taken into custody following a large-scale manhunt.

The Washington football team has used the controversial nickname since 1933.

The boy's 9-year-old sister was also struck in the leg during second shooting at their home in Yakima.

Mike Brown was placed on administrative leave after the King County Sheriff's Office was alerted to posts he made on social media after two protesters were struck by a car on Interstate 5.

A 7-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were killed in separate shootings in Chicago on July 4th, while an 11-year-old was fatally shot in Washington, D.C.

Coronavirus victims' names will be read over a loudspeaker from the Trump Death Clock truck, as it drives around the White House and Trump International Hotel.

Washington has also issued an order directing businesses to require their customers to wear masks, which will go into effect next week.

Governor Jay Inslee issued a mandate last week requiring all people in Washington to wear face coverings while in public.

People around the nation are attending parties despite the continued risks of catching coronavirus during the ongoing epidemic.

"Our movement rejects insinuations & falsehoods perpetuated by corporate & conservative media that this violence is outcome of CHOP," Kshama Sawant tweeted.

"Amazon works directly with police to surveil us, stoking racist fears in the name of profit," the protesters' claimed.

Four men have been charged with destruction of federal property over a failed effort to topple a statue of President Andrew Jackson during a protest on June 22.

Demonstrators in Washington, D.C., held multiple events arguing for the memorial statue's removal throughout last week.

Statehood for the nation's capital would betray the Founding Fathers' vision.

Washington is the latest to join 15 other states and the District of Columbia in issuing a mandatory face masks.

The reason why Washington, D.C. isn't a state can be traced back to the American Revolution before Congress had a permanent home.

During a debate over the effort to grant statehood to the Washington, D.C., Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton questioned whether DC Mayor Muriel Bowser could be trusted with gubernatorial powers.

The incident took place in a section of 16th Street in Washington, D.C. that protesters have attempted to declare the "Black House Autonomous Zone."

A spokesperson said they hope the mandate does not have to be enforced through the legal system.

Protesters promised to return to Lincoln Park on Thursday to tear down the Emancipation Memorial for its "degrading racial undertones."