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We spoke to the civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson, an early leading voice of the Black Lives Matter movement, who joined us from New York.

In a unanimous decision, they found him guilty of the murder and manslaughter of George Floyd.

Caught in a time loop – a young Black man is forced to relive a deadly encounter with a racist police officer.

President Biden made another major foreign policy call this week declaring that all US troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by September this year.

Bodycam video footage has been released in Chicago showing the moment a police officer fatally shot a 13-year-old boy.

We speak to Zarifa Ghafari, one of Afghanistan’s first female mayors, and Professor Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, from the University of Pittsburgh, who’s a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council as the US prepares to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, after two decades of conflict

President Biden has begun setting out his plans to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by September 11 this year. He will declare that “it’s time to end America’s longest war”.

Last August, Jacob Blake’s 29 year old son, also called Jacob Blake, was shot seven times in front of his children and left paralysed by a police officer in Kenosha as he resisted arrest and was in possession of a folding pocket-knife. It led to massive protests in which two people were killed. That officer,…

In the Derek Chauvin trial lawyers are trying to argue that drugs and a heart condition contributed to George Floyd’s death, and not the more than nine minutes that the former police officer knelt on his neck. But this whole trial has been overshadowed by the rising tensions over the death of a young Black…

We talk to the political strategist LaTosha Brown, who’s the co-founder of the Black Voters Matter group.

In the United States, a new wave of Black Lives Matter protests are beginning around the country at the killing of a young black man by police.

President Biden has made the fight against climate change a key priority of his new administration, cancelling the planned Keystone XL pipeline on his very first day in office. But he hasn’t done the same for Enbridge 3, a pipeline carrying oil across much of Northern Minnesota, including swathes of Native American land. Protesters claim…

In America it’s the seventh day of the murder trial of the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin who is accused of killing George Floyd last summer.

Police in Washington DC have lined the streets in a procession for police officer William Evans, who was killed in an attack on the Capitol building yesterday.

In the last hour, the US Capitol has been locked down by police.