Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chavin's lawyers have filed a motion for a new trial after he was convicted of second degree unintentional murder, second degree manslaughter, and third degree murder.
The top-ranking House Republican renews his party's attack on Major League Baseball for pulling the All-Star Game out of Georgia over voting law concerns. (May 4)
An eyewitness says deputies fired at Andrew Brown Jr. multiple times as he tried to drive away from them last month. The car skidded out of Brown's yard and eventually hit a tree, said Demetria Williams, who lives on the same street. (May 4)
The message from the Russians to the Ukrainian patrol was clear: Go no further. As Russian ships deploy to the Sea of Azov for what Moscow says are exercises, the Ukrainians ready their defenses. CNN's Matthew Chance reports.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says all of the state's counties will remain in their current phase of the state's economic reopening plan and won't face more restrictions because new COVID cases are leveling off after a recent spike. (May 4)
Teams of canvassers from Detroit's health department are fanning out to educate residents on where to go to get free COVID-19 vaccines (May 4)
Greece wants to boost economic growth by as much as 7% over the next six years, as the country aims to mobilise €57 billion as part of its pandemic recovery plan. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says it will be "a bridge to the post-COVID-19 era” with the hope of also creating tens of thousands of jobs during this period.
Atlanta's mayor has named Rodney Bryant permanent police chief nearly a year after he stepped into the role on an interim basis. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said she would ask the City Council to confirm Bryant immediately. (May 4)
Mexico City (AFP) – Mexican citizen says the "metro was badly done" as firefighters and civil protection forces members work on the site of the collapsed metro line in Mexico City, trying to clear the train that came plunging down in an attempt to recover the bodies of the victims.
Bhopal (India) (AFP) – When Indian auto-rickshaw driver Mohammad Javed Khan saw people carrying their coronavirus-stricken parents to hospitals on their backs as they were too poor to afford an ambulance, he knew he had to help. Khan, a 34-year-old driver in the central Indian city of Bhopal, sold his wife's jewellery and converted his three-wheeled vehicle into a small ambulance.
Polish scientists says they have discovered the world's first pregnant Egyptian mummy while carrying out scans on the 2,000-year-old remains kept at the National Museum in Warsaw. The mummy was brought to Poland in the 19th century and became part of the antiquities collection at the University of Warsaw.
