Workers clean graffiti from a statue of Belgium's King Leopold II in Brussels on Thursday, June 11, 2020, that was targeted by protesters during a Black Lives Matter demonstration. The protests sweeping the world after George Floyd's death in the U.S. have added fuel to a movement to confront Europe's role in the slave trade and its colonial past. Leopold is increasingly seen as a stain on the nation where he reigned from 1865 to 1909. Demonstrators want him removed from public view. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. HISTORICAL FIGURES REASSESSED AROUND GLOBE The movement to pull down Confederate monuments around the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd's death extends to statues of slave traders, imperialists, conquerors and explorers around the world.
2. '~WE HAVE GLIMMERS OF HOPE' Scientists are beginning a new study to tell if the blood plasma of COVID-19 survivors might help prevent infection in the first place.
3. EXPERTS: POLICE UNDERTRAINED IN USE OF FORCE Instructors and researchers say officers lack adequate training on how and when to use force, leaving them unprepared to handle tense situations.
4. '~I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD WATCH MY MOTHER GO LIKE THIS' Like elsewhere in the world, the coronavirus has made honoring the dead in India a hurried affair, largely devoid of the rituals that give it meaning for mourners.
5. CHIEFS LEAD VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE The Super Bowl champions are putting together the program in response to the social unrest that has gripped the nation.
In this April 22, 2020 photo provided by New York Blood Center Enterprises, Aubrie Cresswell, 24, donates convalescent plasma at the Blood Bank of Delmarva Christiana Donor Center in suburban Newark, Del. 'It's, I think, our job as humans to step forward and help in society,' said Cresswell who has donated three times and counting. One donation was shipped to a hospitalized friend of a friend, and 'it brought me to tears. I was like, overwhelmed with it just because the family was really thankful.' (New York Blood Center Enterprises via AP)
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In this June 4, 2020, photo, Christopher Clarke, front left, an instructor at the Washington state Criminal Justice Training Commission facility in Burien, Wash., teaches a class on the use of batons to law enforcement officers as part of the more than 700 hours of training police and other officers are required to to through in the state of Washington. Police training has been under scrutiny again since the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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People watch from afar a relative who died of COVID-19 being buried at a cemetery in New Delhi, India, Friday, June 5, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic is leaving India's morgues piling up with the dead and graveyards and crematoriums overwhelmed. Like elsewhere in the world, the virus has made honoring the dead in New Delhi a hurried affair, largely devoid of the rituals that give it meaning for mourners. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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