Joe Biden's climate plan appears to directly copy multiple lines from other organizations — but his campaign says it was a mistake … - Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden released a climate change proposal on Tuesday.  — In at least three instances …

GOP lawmakers warn White House they'll try to block Trump's Mexico tariffs  —  Republican senators warned Trump administration officials Tuesday they were prepared to block the president's effort to impose tariffs on Mexican imports, promising what would be GOP lawmakers' most brazen defiance of the president since he took office.

Paul Manafort to Be Sent to Rikers, Where He Faces Solitary Confinement  —  Mr. Manafort was indicted on state charges, which prosecutors brought to ensure he would go to prison if pardoned by President Trump.  High-profile inmates are often held in protective custody.

“Marla Was Under Duress”: Revealed in His Marla Maples Prenup, Donald Trump's Draconian Art of the Marriage Deal  —  She only got $1 million.  Trump called himself a billionaire, but likely wasn't.  Child support would cease if Tiffany joined the Army or the Peace Corps.  And other secrets of the Trump-Marla prenup.

First on CNN: White House directs Hicks, Donaldson to withhold White House documents from House panel  —  (CNN)The White House has directed former officials Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson not to turn over any documents to the House Judiciary Committee relating to their time at the White House …

Harry Reid changes opinion, says Pelosi-led House should open Trump impeachment inquiry  —  Impeaching a U.S. president might not be the be all end all for their career.  Not only can a president remain in office after impeachment, but even see higher approval ratings.  We explain.  —  CONNECT

For Trump, U.K. State Visit Is a (Royal) Family Affair  —  LONDON — When Queen Elizabeth II welcomed the president on Monday for his first state visit to Britain, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner watched from a Buckingham Palace balcony.  Later, at a state banquet, Eric Trump posed for photographs.

The State Department has been funding trolls.  I'm one of their targets.  —  Even after spending a year and a half in prison in Tehran, I knew that if I wanted to go on writing about Iran, I would be a target for plenty of public attacks despite the abuse I had suffered at the hands of the Islamic Republic.

Emails show Texas governor requested the voter purge that used flawed data  —  Electronic communications made public Tuesday show Gov. Greg Abbott's office was a driving force in the state's program to purge nearly 100,000 suspected non-U.S. citizens from Texas' voter rolls.

Meet the GOP operatives who aim to smear the 2020 Democrats — but keep bungling it  —  Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl — a pair of boundlessly eager, profoundly unrepentant aspirants to the dankest depths of political chicanery — were watching television together the other day when something caught Burkman's eye.

DoJ: Key Mueller Witness Arrested For Transporting Child Pornography ... Again  —  Adam Schiff's plans to go after Erik Prince may have hit a dead end.  After the release of the Mueller report, the House Intelligence chair referred Prince for prosecution on perjury, thank to testimony …

CNN Poll: Biden continues to lead crowded Democratic field  —  2020 Democrats challenge Biden's message, electability  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to be the top pick for the Democratic nomination for president among Democrats and Democratic-leaning registered voters …

A teacher asked Trump to round up ‘illegal students’ — in tweets she says she thought were private  —  Georgia Clark, a veteran high school English teacher in Fort Worth, had an urgent request for President Trump: She needed help pulling undocumented immigrants from her school.

Campaign Money Helping Make Up For Tenant Shortage At Trump Tower  —  As commercial renters flee, Trump keeps spending $37,500 a month in campaign funds at his own building — even though much of the Republican Party's leased space in Virginia is going unused.

Homelessness jumps 12% in L.A. County and 16% in the city; officials ‘stunned’  —  In a hard reality check for Los Angeles County's multimillion-dollar hope of ending homelessness, officials reported Tuesday that the number of people living on the streets, in vehicles and in shelters increased by about 12% over last year.

Treasury and Commerce Implement Changes to Cuba Sanctions Rules  —  WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) unveiled amendments to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR) to further implement the President's foreign policy on Cuba.

Jeff Bezos Buys Fifth Avenue Condo Spread for Around $80 Million  —  The Amazon CEO is finalizing the purchase of three units at 212 Fifth Avenue near Madison Square Park  —  Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos is set to finalize the purchase of three New York apartments Tuesday in a deal valued …

HBO's Chernobyl is a terrific miniseries.  Its writer hopes you don't think it's the whole truth.  —  Craig Mazin on turning disaster into great TV and narrative poison.  —  HBO's terrific five-episode miniseries Chernobyl has two big surprises up its sleeve.

A Plan For Economic Patriotism  —  I come from a patriotic family.  All three of my brothers joined the military.  And I'm deeply grateful for the opportunities America has given me.  But the giant “American” corporations who control our economy don't seem to feel the same way.

What Are Conservatives Actually Debating?  —  What the strange war over “David French-ism” says about the right.  —  In March the religious journal First Things published a short manifesto, signed by a group of notable conservative writers and academics, titled “Against the Dead Consensus.”

Trump baby blimp ‘stabbed with sharp object’ by pro-Trump activist in London  —  Trump baby blimps flown at today's protests in London against the US president's visit was attacked by a pro-Trump supporter carrying a sharp object.  —  A woman approached a group anti-Trump activists outside …

Hate crimes surge in NYC, attacks on Jews almost double  —  The NYPD recorded 184 hate crimes through June 2 — up from 112 in 2018 — during a period when the city experienced a continued reduction in overall crimes.  —  The number of hate crimes in New York City jumped by 64 percent this year …

Is GOP's Senate Majority in More Peril Than We Think?  —  The general thinking about the Republican Senate majority is that it has solidified to the point where Democrats are effectively shut out of gaining control of the upper chamber in 2020.  But in truth, the GOP majority is in more danger than many analysts believe.

Sohrab Ahmari Is Right  —  Judging by the number of articles they have written and the tweets they have sent, certain conservative writers view Sohrab Ahmari as a major threat to public decency.  Nothing outraged these writers more than Ahmari's observation that “civility and decency are secondary values.”

Central Park 5 Investigator Linda Fairstein Resigns from Nonprofit Org  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  2:37 PM PT — Fairstein has just resigned from her position on the board with Safe Horizon, but also insists she's the one who's been done wrong by the Netflix series, “When They See Us.”

A Better Way to Fix the Supreme Court  —  What should be done about the Supreme Court?  Liberals, still seething after the Merrick Garland blockade and Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, are bracing for imminent defeats from the Roberts Court on everything from partisan gerrymandering to abortion rights.

Dossier author Christopher Steele will be questioned by US investigators: report  —  Former British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier of salacious and unverified claims about the president's ties to Russia, has agreed to be questioned by investigators from the United States, according to a report in Britain.

Trump tries to upend the 2020 map  —  President Donald Trump is targeting a trio of states that he lost in 2016 — a move aimed at widening his path to reelection that comes as he's struggling in the Rust Belt states that propelled him to the White House.  —  Trump officials are zeroing …

Rumblings from Trump's base could shape Democrats' choice for 2020  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's political base may not be as impregnable as commonly assumed.  And that could have big implications not only for the Democrats' strategy against Trump in 2020 but also for their choice of a presidential nominee.