Border bridge may open soon as police arrest protesters
Canadian police in Windsor, Ontario, began making arrests Sunday morning near the Ambassador Bridge, clearing a roadway to a vital border crossing to the United States and one of the most visible sites of an anti-government protest movement that has roiled Canada for weeks. For the moment, the bridge remained closed, but authorities suggested that might soon change. “Today, our national economic crisis at the Ambassador bridge came to an end,” the mayor of Windsor, Drew Dilkens, said Sunday. “Border crossings will reopen when it is safe to do so, and I defer to police and border agencies to make that determination.”
In Arbery hate crimes trial, racism will
take center stage
The killing of George Floyd catalyzed a period of national soul-searching about race and racism that has touched nearly every aspect of American life. But in a number of high-profile trials since then — including in the murder of Floyd and the killing of Ahmaud Arbery — prosecutors have carefully avoided putting racism itself on center stage. That changes as soon as this week, as federal prosecutors try to prove that the white men who killed Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, committed a federal hate crime when they chased and killed him “because of Arbery’s race and color,” as their indictment puts it.
Some governors defend mask policy changes to ‘get back to normal’
The governor of New Jersey was among several Democratic governors who defended their moves to ease COVID restrictions, saying on Sunday that falling coronavirus cases in their states justified a change even as new cases and deaths remain fairly high in some regions of the United States. “As best we can tell right now this thing is going from pandemic to endemic, and we feel it is the responsible step to take,” Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey said on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” referring to the stage when the virus will become a manageable part of daily life. He is one of several Democrats who announced plans to lift statewide mask mandates last week.
Flight makes emergency landing after passenger tries to enter cockpit
An American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., made a rapid emergency landing in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday afternoon after an unruly passenger tried to break into the cockpit and then attempted to open an exit door, witnesses said. The passenger was subdued by crew members and other passengers. He was taken into custody after the flight landed. In a statement, American Airlines said the flight, American Airlines Flight 1775, landed safely in Kansas City, where law enforcement officials met the plane. The crew members “handled the circumstances with the utmost skill and professionalism,” the statement said.
Afghan diplomats seek permission
to remain in US
Already reeling from a Taliban takeover of their government and a humanitarian disaster in their homeland, Afghan diplomats in the United States are grappling with another bleak reality: the loss of pay and the possibility of being deported. Several dozen diplomats assigned to Afghanistan’s embassy in Washington and consulates in New York and Los Angeles have not been paid since October, when U.S. banks froze accounts to prevent the Taliban from gaining access to the embassy’s funds. But the envoys, who were part of the U.S.-backed government that was overthrown in August, are keeping the embassy open — continuing diplomatic work but also preserving the diplomatic status that allows them to remain in the U.S.
By wire sources
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