Taking #Obamagate Seriously  —  President Trump's bonkers theory, explained.  —  It is easy to overlook some of the everyday corruptions that President Trump has inflicted on the body politic.  After all, his unique blend of logorrhea, mendacity, and clownishness creates an atmosphere …

CNN Poll: Negative ratings for government handling of coronavirus persist  —  Three members of coronavirus task force in quarantine  —  (CNN)Most Americans (54%) continue to say the US government is doing a poor job preventing the spread of Covid-19, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.

Trump is getting trounced among a crucial constituency: The haters  —  President Donald Trump is losing a critical constituency: voters who see two choices on the ballot — and hate them both.  —  Unlike in 2016, when a large group of voters who disliked both Trump and Hillary Clinton broke sharply …

Coronavirus Live Updates: Fauci to Warn Senate of ‘Needless Suffering and Death’  —  The risks of reopening the country too soon will be a focus of government hearings on Tuesday.  The White House's new mask requirement won't apply to President Trump.  —  RIGHT NOW Dr. Anthony S. Fauci …

Unreleased White House report shows coronavirus rates spiking in heartland communities  —  President Trump's claim that cases are falling everywhere is contradicted by his own task force's report, obtained by NBC News, showing the virus spreading far from the coasts.

American Travelers Are About to Be Pariahs in This New World  —  SEAT'S TAKEN  —  As tourist-centric countries begin testing travel corridors and reciprocal quarantine regulations, American travelers might find themselves locked out of the post-pandemic world.

Video shows food executives removing masks ahead of Pence event  —  (CNN)Participants at a food supply roundtable convened by Vice President Mike Pence in Iowa on Friday removed their face masks before Pence arrived, according to video from the event posted online.

The Flynn case isn't over until the judge says it's over  —  John Gleeson served as a U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of New York and chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney's Office in that district.  David O'Neil served as the acting assistant attorney general …

Supreme Court to hear clash over Trump tax, bank records  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up President Donald Trump's bid to keep his tax, bank and financial records private, a major clash over presidential accountability that could affect the 2020 presidential campaign.

US grocery costs jump the most in 46 years, led by rising prices for meat and eggs  — The Labor Department reported Tuesday that prices U.S. consumers paid for groceries jumped 2.6% in April, the largest one-month pop since February 1974.  — The price of the meats, poultry …

“Trump's Feeling Is, ‘Why Are We Losing Everywhere?’”:  With Advisers Feuding and Numbers Plummeting, Trump Eyes Campaign Shake-up  —  Brad Parscale (and his Ferrari) is in the hot seat.  Kushner is pushing for Nick Ayers, and against a Corey Lewandowski return.  But whose fault are the disastrous swing state numbers?

‘Should have kept his mouth shut’: McConnell slams Obama for criticizing Trump admin  —  The Senate Majority leader said the former president broke with tradition by maligning his successor.  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Monday evening slammed former President Barack Obama …

Trump's jaw-dropping attack on California's voting plan  —  Trump and Democrats fight over mail-in voting  —  Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast.  Follow him @DeanObeidallah.

Mitch McConnell Moves to Expand Bill Barr's Surveillance Powers  —  Welcome to the Trump-era Patriot Act: a law that protects politicians while giving the government greater knowledge of the websites you searched for and visited.  —  Days after the Justice Department controversially dropped charges …

Why I endorse challenger Harrison over Sen. Lindsey Graham  —  Some of you have seen in news reports that I have endorsed Jaime Harrison for the U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina against Lindsey Graham.  —  Reactions have varied from support (by far the most people) to threats to never buy Michelin tires.

FBI's Man in Europe Undercut Ohr's Claim of Limited Russiagate Role  —  Above right, FBI agent Michael Gaeta at a 2016 seminar in Rome.  —  An FBI agent's newly released testimony undercuts top Justice Department official Bruce Ohr's denial of a conflict of interest between his Trump-Russia efforts …

Watchdog Reports Record Number of Anti-Semitic Incidents in U.S. Last Year  —  (Reuters) - Jews in the United States suffered the largest number of anti-Semitic incidents last year since the Anti-Defamation League began collecting records 40 years ago, the racism watchdog said on Tuesday.

Doctors Without Borders dispatches team to the Navajo Nation  —  Doctors Without Borders is best known for sending medical professionals into international conflict zones in the midst of medical crises.  The organization has teams in Afghanistan, Iran, Sierra Leone, Venezuela and 66 other countries.

Forced to govern, a fierce partisan warrior gets pragmatic  —  Mark Meadows spent his entire congressional career trying to divorce the Republican Party from its moderate wing.  Now he's trying to make it work with centrist Republicans and even Democrats on Capitol Hill.

Coronavirus economy: We're in for a painful slog, not Trump's fast, ‘spectacular’ recovery  —  Some people think the Great Depression, which began in 1929 during the presidency of Herbert Hoover, ended shortly after Franklin D. Roosevelt replaced him in 1933.  Not so.  It went on and on and on — and on.