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KSU Rock 3

Morgan Cummings September 2, 2020

The Kent State rock on front campus originally painted in support of Black Lives Matter was painted over to say "White Lives Matter" on Wednesday, Sept. 2. 

Sean Lewis Statement

August 31, 2020

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A black Lives Matter protester scuffles with attendees of a pro-Trump rally during an event held to show support for the president on August 29, 2020 in Clackamas, Oregon.

Authorities crack down on Portland protests after weekend of violence

(CNN) -- As Portland, Oregon, grapples with three straight months of protests and a deadly shooting on Saturday, Gov. Kate Brown is putting out her own plan to try to calm clashes over protests in the...

First Lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump gesture to attendees during the third night of the Republican National Convention at Fort McHenry National Monument in Baltimore, Maryland, August 26, 2020.

What to watch on the Republican convention’s final night

Maegan Vazquez, CNN August 28, 2020

(CNN) -- The fourth and final night of the Republican convention on Thursday will feature President Donald Trump's speech officially accepting the Republican nomination for president.Expect fireworks....

A family walks to a charter bus that will evacuate them from Galveston Island to Austin in anticipation of impact from Hurricane Laura on August 25, 2020, at the Galveston Housing Authority offices in Galveston.

Laura nears Category 4 strength and threatens ‘unsurvivable’ storm surges as it approaches Louisiana and Texas

Editor's note: In the storm's path with a weak phone connection? Get the text-only version of top stories.(CNN) -- Hurricane Laura may reach extremely dangerous Category 4 strength before slamming...

Clashes between protesters and armed civilians break out during the third day of protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake by a police officer in Wisconsin.

Two people are dead and a third injured in an overnight shooting in Kenosha, police say

(CNN) -- Two people were killed and a third was seriously wounded in a shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, late Tuesday during the third night of protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, police said.Officers...

A firefighter rubs his head while watching the LNU Lightning Complex fires spread through the Berryessa Estates neighborhood of unincorporated Napa County, California, on Friday, Aug. 21.

Deadly California wildfires scorch more than 1 million acres with no end in sight

Amir Vera and Jamiel Lynch, CNN August 23, 2020

(CNN) -- The deadly California wildfires have burned over 1 million acres -- and there's no end in sight as thousands of firefighters struggle to contain the blazes and more emerge.Hundreds of fires were...

Jay Graham on Fall Semester

August 20, 2020

Jay Graham, @KentState’s Interim Executive Director for the Office of the University Architect, spoke with me about his outlook on KSU students enjoying their on-campus experience this fall. pic.twitter.com/WJdhpdAjgA —...

Steve Bannon and three others were charged with fraud in a border wall fundraising campaign. Seen here, the former White House senior counselor to President Donald Trump leaves the courthouse after he testified at the Roger Stone trial November 8, 2019 in Washington, DC.

Steve Bannon, three others charged with fraud in border wall fundraising campaign

(CNN) -- New York federal prosecutors on Thursday charged President Donald Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon and three others with defrauding donors of hundreds of thousands of dollars as part of a...

The second night of the Democratic National Convention opened with a 17-person "keynote" speech, interspersing clips of a diverse set of the party's rising stars into a coherent message, rather than spreading them throughout largely ignored daytime slots at an ordinary convention.

Six takeaways from the DNC’s second night

(CNN) -- It's difficult to imagine political parties returning to the packed, always-behind-schedule conventions of the past after Democrats' nomination of Joe Biden on Tuesday night.The second night...

The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high on Tuesday, August 18, 2020, for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the United States.

The stock market just hit its first record since the pandemic started

Anneken Tappe, CNN Business August 19, 2020

(CNN) -- The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high on Tuesday for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the United States.The index, which is the broadest measure of Wall Street, had been hovering...

Susan B. Anthony received a presidential pardon this week, almost 150 years after she was arrested and convicted for voting as a woman.

Nearly 150 years ago, Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting when women weren’t allowed to. Today, she’ll get a pardon

Scottie Andrew, CNN August 18, 2020

(CNN) -- Susan B. Anthony wasn't one to go quietly.She died before women secured the right to vote, but she found a way to vote anyway, 50 years before the 19th Amendment passed. She was eventually arrested...