WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Tuesday the conviction of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd “can be a giant step forward” for the nation in the fight against systemic racism. 

The president spoke in response to the murder conviction delivered Tuesday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd.

In the middle of a Maryland marsh on the state’s eastern shore, Archaeologists working in the area claim that they have found the site where the home of Ben Ross, father of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, once stood.

“I’m so emotional that no family in history ever got this far,” Rodney Floyd, George Floyd's brother, said.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was handcuffed and taken into custody after a jury found him guilty of murdering George Floyd.

On Monday, NASA engineers pulled off a historic first: flying a machine on another planet. The feat could change space exploration forever.