Weekly Review

“These ballots are all going to be lost. They’re going to be gone,” said President Trump, who requested a mail-in ballot for himself.“Absentee voting is great.” Read More

Police officers in Kansas were summoned to defuse a rod of dynamite that turned out to be a beef stick. Read More

British courts will not disclose evidence about two members of the “Beatles,” a cell of the Islamic State, to the Justice Department. Read More

It was reported that the police department in King City, California, had required all its officers to use handgun-mounted cameras. Read More

The Pentagon banned Confederate flags in a memo that neither included the word “ban” nor the word “Confederate.” Read More

Seattle’s police department said that at least 50 percent of its BIPOC police officers would be fired if the city followed through with efforts to defund it. Read More

It was revealed that a member of the East Baton Rouge Parish school board in Louisiana had been shopping online during a meeting about renaming Lee High School, which was named after Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Read More

The video game Fortnite removed police cars from its new season Read More

The Washington Redskins officially recognized Juneteenth. Read More

A Fairchild Swearingen C-26 flew in support of the Phoenix Police Department. Read More

In Austria, plans were announced to turn the house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station. Read More

After being arrested by the police in Minneapolis, George Floyd, an unarmed, 46-year-old black man, was killed by a white officer, Derek Chauvin, who knelt on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds while Floyd, handcuffed and facedown on the pavement, repeated the words “I can’t breathe” at… Read More

Saturn, an alligator who, according to legend, once belonged to Adolf Hitler, died in a Russian zoo. Read More

Donald Trump announced the development of a “super-duper missile.” Read More

The U.S. Space Force debuted its first recruitment video, featuring the slogan “Maybe your purpose on this planet isn’t on this planet.” Read More

A funeral home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was offering drive-through viewings. Read More

A “Reopen Wisconsin” protest in downtown Madison inadvertently shut down businesses that were still open. Read More

Last month was the first March since 2002 without a school shooting in the United States. Read More

“I think, if I may, it’s cool to work. Your neighbor, your brother-in-law, you know, the guy down the street, working has become cool again,” said White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow. Read More

The government of Malaysia instructed women not to be sarcastic with their husbands during the lockdown. Read More

A technical officer at the World Health Organization warned that consuming alcohol was an “unhelpful coping strategy” for cabin fever. Read More

Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, the archduke Karl von Habsburg of Austria, Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar of Iran, basketball star Kevin Durant, reality-television host Andy Cohen, actor Idris Elba, Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan, and Senator Rand Paul all tested positive for the coronavirus. Read More

Oklahoma governor Mike Stitt posted a photo of himself at a crowded Oklahoma City food hall captioned “It’s packed tonight!”; Stitt later deleted the tweet and declared a state of emergency. Read More

Tito’s Handmade Vodka urged the public not to use its vodka as hand sanitizer, as it has insufficient alcohol content to kill germs. Read More

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a dissenting opinion to overturn a decision that he had authored. Read More

Police armed with locally produced slingshots were deployed to prevent Trump from being attacked by monkeys at the Taj Mahal. Read More

“Papa” John Schnatter retracted a claim he made last month that he had eaten “40 pizzas in the last 30 days,” admitting that he had been referring to eating “parts of pieces” rather than entire pies. Read More

In New Hampshire, Joe Biden called a woman 56 years his junior “a lying, dog-faced pony soldier,” which his campaign incorrectly attributed to a film starring John Wayne. Read More

A Mennonite accountant was charged with defrauding his Amish neighbors. Read More

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump said that he would not rule out sanctions against Iraq, where active-duty U.S. troops are still stationed. Read More