Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday ordered bars closed in seven California counties – including Los Angeles – as the state grapples with a surge in coronavirus infections and increasing hospitalizations.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday that he wants an agricultural Southern California county to reimpose stay-home orders amid a surge in positive coronavirus tests there and through much of the state.

Crowds in Washington D.C. also toppled a statue of a Confederate general late on Friday, capping a day when thousands of people marched through U.S. cities in Juneteenth observances commemorating the abolition of slavery. Video footage on Twitter showed cheering protesters in Raleigh taking down two Confederate statues with ropes and hanging one to a […]

On Friday night, a group of protesters converged on the Legislative Plaza in Nashville, announcing plans to seize the area in front of the Tennessee statehouse as an ‘autonomous zone.’

Virginia's governor says the monument to the Confederate general will be taken down in Richmond.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam refused to send his National Guard troops into Washington D.C., despite a request from the White House for the state to deploy its guardsmen to help disperse protesters.

‘Last night is a mockery of pretending that this is about George Floyd’s death, or inequities, or historical traumas to our communities of color,’ Governor Tim Walz said on Saturday.

"We have every legal right to do what we're doing," said Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold Frazier. "We're just doing preventative action."

South Dakota Indian tribes have set up checkpoints on reservations restricting travel during the COVID-19 pandemic.