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AP News:华盛顿市长下令街道涂字声援抗议活动

2020-06-11来源:和谐英语

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President Donald Trump's first trip to Maine as president was meant to showcase the administration's work to fight the coronavirus but it attracted hundreds of supporters and opponents of Trump who turned out Friday to demonstrate amid the national upheaval over the death of George Floyd.

U.S. unemployment dropped unexpectedly in May to 13.3% as reopened businesses began recalling millions of workers faster than economists had predicted. Stocks surged on the news, and an exultant president Trump seized on the report as evidence that the economy is coming back from the coronavirus crisis like a "rocket ship."
Deputies responding to a call about a shooting in Alabama found seven people dead inside a home that had been set afire early Friday, authorities said. Morgan County deputies put out the fire before firefighters arrived and found three women and four men shot dead inside, news outlets reported.
City workers and activists painted the words Black Lives Matter in enormous bright yellow letters on the street leading to the White House, a highly visibl e sign of the district of Columbia's embrace of a protest movement that has put it at odds with president Donald Trump. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser tweeted aerial video of the mural Friday.