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Much of the destruction and theft in U.S. cities in recent days appears to have been perpetrated by people who saw the demonstrations against police brutality as an opportunity to commit crimes with a low risk of being caught.

Protests rippled across U.S. cities this weekend as outrage erupted over the death of George Floyd. Here’s a look at where things stand.

A former judge who became the face of Brazil’s anticorruption campaign said he felt forced to step down as justice minister because President Jair Bolsonaro had abandoned the fight on graft that had helped get him elected.

New York City will have an 8 p.m. curfew, after a night of protests over the death of George Floyd coincided with looting and violence that led to more than 700 arrests.

The telecommunications-equipment company was the subject of a yearslong investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice over historical foreign bribery violations in China, Djibouti, Indonesia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam.

Beijing is calling attention to unrest in the U.S., the police response and President Trump’s call for a tougher crackdown on protesters to highlight what it regards as American hypocrisy.

The charges against retired University of Miami professor Bruce Bagley sparked a slew of headlines last November. A noted expert on crime and corruption in Latin America, Mr. Bagley had been quoted extensively in the media, including The Wall Street Journal, in articles about drug cartels, violence and corruption.

A number of foreign-run Facebook pages appear to be spreading misleading—and widely viewed—videos about the protests in the U.S. using the platform’s live-video features.

While protests across the country in recent nights have been marked by violence and tense confrontations between the police and demonstrators, they have also contained moments of calm and solidarity when police officers have knelt or marched alongside protesters.

For thousands of Minnesotans mourning the death of George Floyd, the corner of East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis has grown over the past few days from a gritty commercial district and busy thruway to the city’s emotional center.

The rage and despair sparked by the death of George Floyd in police custody has spread far beyond Minneapolis, as people took to the streets in many small and midsize American cities that have seldom, if ever, seen large protests over police brutality.

Peaceful street protests devolved into chaos in several U.S. cities for the seventh consecutive night, despite curfews in New York, Washington and elsewhere designed to quell the violence sparked by the death of George Floyd.

President Trump called for a tougher government response to the violent unrest that has followed widespread peaceful protests against police brutality, authorizing the deployment of troops to Washington, D.C.

The New York City Police Department opened an investigation into officers who accelerated their police cars into protesters blocking their way, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

New York lawmakers will convene next week to overhaul a law that keeps police disciplinary records hidden from public view, a response to protests that rocked cities around the state this weekend.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York City will have a curfew after growing concerns that the mass protests engulfing the city could lead to more violence.

New York businesses and police officers braced for another night of looting on Monday as protests over the death of George Floyd continued.

Two Brooklyn lawyers and a woman from upstate New York were arraigned Monday on federal crimes after allegedly participating in separate Molotov cocktail attacks on police patrol cars in New York City early Saturday, as peaceful protests sparked by the death of George Floyd descended into chaos.

The Justice Department on Monday said it has refined a document outlining how it assesses programs developed by companies to prevent their employees from violating the law.