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Brazil’s President Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19 Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested positive for COVID-19 after months of downplaying the virus’ severity. Bolsonaro confirmed the test results while wearing a mask and speaking to reporters in capital Brasilia. https://apnews.com/8ceb44235a63dfb59da10f2ceffb9160

Civil Rights Law Protects Gay and Transgender Workers, Supreme Court Rules The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a landmark civil rights law protects gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination, handing the movement for L.G.B.T. equality a stunning victory. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/gay-transgender-workers-supreme-court.html

Protests Flare Again in US Amid Calls to End Police Violence Protesters took to the streets across America again Sunday, with violence flaring in pockets of largely peaceful demonstrations fueled by the killings of black people at the hands of police. A truck driver — apparently deliberately — drove into demonstrators in Minneapolis nearly a week after George Floyd pleaded with an officer pressing a knee into his neck that he could not breathe. Protests sprang up from Boston to San Francisco, with people robbing stores in broad daylight in Philadelphia and Santa Monica, California. In Minneapolis, the tanker truck sped into a peaceful crowd of thousands on a closed highway, but no protesters appeared to have been hit, authorities said. https://apnews.com/55933b8695e36337a6bfe96728b3e7f3

NASA Resumes Human Spaceflight from U.S. Soil with Historic SpaceX Launch SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans toward orbit from Florida on Saturday in a mission that marks the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:22 p.m. EDT (1922 GMT), launching Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken on a 19-hour ride aboard the company’s newly designed Crew Dragon capsule bound for the International Space Station. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-spacex-launch/nasa-resumes-human-spaceflight-from-u-s-soil-with-historic-spacex-launch-idUSKBN2360D2

Minneapolis Police Officer Charged with Murder in George Floyd Case The white Minneapolis policeman who pinned an unarmed black man with a knee to the throat before the man died was arrested and charged with murder, a prosecutor said on Friday, after three nights of violent protests rocked the Midwestern city. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-investigation-cnn/minneapolis-police-officer-arrested-in-george-floyd-case-idUSKBN2351DF

Civil Unrest Rages in Minneapolis Over Racially Charged Killing by Police Peaceful rallies gave way to a third night of arson, looting and vandalism in Minneapolis on Thursday as protesters vented their rage over the death of a black man seen on video gasping for breath while a white police officer knelt on his neck. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-investigation/minnesota-calls-in-national-guard-to-quell-unrest-over-black-mans-death-in-police-custody-idUSKBN23423Q

U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Top 100,000 as Country Reopens U.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 100,000 on Wednesday even as the daily average death toll declines, businesses reopen and Americans emerge from lockdowns across the country. About 1,400 Americans have died on average each day in May, down from the peak of the outbreak in April when 2,000 people a day died on average. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-casualties/u-s-coronavirus-deaths-top-100000-as-country-reopens-idUSKBN23334Z

US Unemployment Surges to a Depression-Era Level of 14.7% The coronavirus crisis has sent U.S. unemployment surging to 14.7%, a level last seen when the country was in the throes of the Depression and President Franklin D. Roosevelt was assuring Americans that the only thing to fear was fear itself. And because of government errors and the particular way the Labor Department measures the job market, the true picture is even worse. By some calculations, the unemployment rate stands at 23.6%, not far from the Depression peak of nearly 25%. https://apnews.com/908d7a004c316baceb916112c0a35ed0

U.S. Coronavirus Cases Top 1 Million as Projected Death Toll Rises U.S. cases of the novel coronavirus topped 1 million on Tuesday, having doubled in 18 days, and making up one-third of all infections in the world, according to a Reuters tally. More than 56,500 Americans have died of the highly contagious respiratory illness COVID-19 caused by the virus, an average of about 2,000 a day this month, according to the tally. The actual number of cases is thought to be higher, with state public health officials cautioning that shortages of trained workers and materials have limited testing capacity. https://reut.rs/3cWDd26

Oil Price Crashes into Negative Territory for the First Time in History Amid Pandemic U.S. crude oil futures collapsed below $0 on Monday for the first time in history, amid a coronavirus-induced supply glut, ending the day at a stunning minus $37.63 a barrel as desperate traders paid to get rid of oil. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-price-crashes-into-negative-territory-for-the-first-time-in-history-amid-pandemic-idUSKBN2210V9

Gunman Kills 16 in Rampage, Deadliest in Canadian History A man disguised as a police officer went on a shooting rampage in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, killing 16 people Sunday, in the deadliest such attack in the country’s history. Officials said the suspected shooter was also dead. https://apnews.com/7c9a33ae52420e0ddbfb5275898a7e79

UK Prime Minister Johnson in Intensive Care after COVID-19 Worsens British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been taken into the intensive care unit in hospital after his COVID-19 worsened, his office said on Monday. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health…