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- A Buffalo teen who took it upon himself to spend ten hours cleaning up after a protest was given a Mustang convertible and college scholarship.
- James Bennet, the NY Times opinion page editor, has resigned following an uproar over an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton calling for the military to crush protests.
- Tourists who want to visit Iceland can now pay $115 to take a coronavirus test and skip the 14-day quarantine.
- Americans may be moving on from coronavirus, but coronavirus isn't moving away from them, the Atlantic writes.
- It's 2020, and the Marine Corps has just now banned all public displays of the Confederate flag at Marine installations.
- Tropical Storm Cristobal is deluging Louisiana and Mississippi with heavy rains and 50 mph winds.
- Video: Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey was booed out of a protest after refusing to disband the police department, which the city council is now poised to do.
- Meanwhile, Trump's HUD Secretary, Ben Carson, says racism is "very uncommon now."
- Would you be shocked to learn that Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich, who has a prominent role in the COVID-19 bailouts, still has ties to his family's investment firm, which is "a major beneficiary" of the bailouts?
John Del Signore / Gothamist
Published Jun 7, 2020
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