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Friday, 15 May 2020

VIDEO: This week in Michigan, protesters gathered at the state capitol to express their frustration with the state’s strict lockdown rules. Such protests have sprouted up around the United States as some people buck against what they see as overreaching government control in their lives.

On This Day in American History
On May 15, 1800, President John Adams orders the federal government to move from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. The former officially stopped functioning as the nation’s capital on June 11. At the time of the move, there were only around 125 federal employees. The young government’s documents were all shipped to Washington via boat. Adams would not move to Washington until November as the White House was still under construction. Congress would move to Washington in November as well.

The wife of a detained Iranian journalist from the nation’s Gonabadi Dervish religious minority says she is distressed by authorities’ persistent refusal to temporarily free her husband from a coronavirus-plagued prison.

VIDEO: Turkey is easing COVID-19 restrictions as the government claims success in containing the virus. While infection and death rates are falling, concerns remain that the move may be coming too soon.

VIDEO: Dairy farmers are dumping millions of gallons of milk. Livestock is being slaughtered, but not for food. Coronavirus has weakened the global food supply chain. Plugged In with Greta Van Susteren examines its impact on feeding the world, especially the hungry.

The United States said Friday it had “assessed” that the Islamic State was behind deadly attacks on a maternity clinic and a funeral earlier this week in Afghanistan.

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