George Floyd, fired officer overlapped security shifts at south Minneapolis club  —  A former club owner in south Minneapolis says the now-fired police officer and the black man who died in his custody this week both worked security for her club up to the end of last year.

The Most Mendacious President in U.S. History  —  On Trump, his Twitter lies, and why it's getting worse.  —  On Sunday, on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday, President Donald Trump accused the TV talk-show host Joe Scarborough of murder.  On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday …

Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:  —  Section 1.  Policy.  Free speech is the bedrock of American democracy.

The Covid Political Earthquake  —  Subsidies will soon end.  Americans will then feel the economic pain—and revolt.  —  The political press is preoccupied with the electoral implications of the virus crisis, and pundits insist the 2020 election will be about the Trump daily soap opera.

Fight Over G.O.P. Convention Escalates in North Carolina  —  In a letter to the state's Democratic governor, top Republicans suggested safety measures to avoid spreading the coronavirus.  President Trump has pushed state leaders to hold the kind of event he wants.

Coronavirus: Monkeys ‘escape with COVID-19 samples’ after attacking lab assistant  —  One of the primates was reportedly later spotted up in a tree, chewing one of the sample collection kits.  —  Created with Sketch.  —  A gang of monkeys attacked a laboratory assistant and escaped …

Amy Cooper allegedly stalked ex-love interest, slammed him for Obama vote  —  The white dog-walker, who called 911 on a black man when he asked her to leash her cocker spaniel in Central Park, allegedly stalked a former love interest and chided him for voting for President Barack Obama, The Post has learned.

Has the Pandemic Peaked?  —  Has the pandemic peaked?  COVID-19 has a way of humbling any prediction, whether clinical or epidemiological, sanguine or alarmist.  And, nationally, this remains a “patchwork pandemic,” in the memorable language of the Atlantic's Ed Yong, with different regions …

GOP's no-mask caucus: ‘Can you smell through that mask?’  —  (CNN)Call them the no-mask caucus.  —  A contingent of House Republicans continues to defy the recommendations of public health experts and Congress' top physician to wear face coverings to limit the spread of Covid-19 …

My fellow brothers and sisters in blue, what on earth are you doing?  —  Val Demings, a Democrat, represents Florida's 10th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.  —  As a former woman in blue, let me begin with my brothers and sisters in blue: What in the hell are you doing?

Sen. Cortez Masto withdraws name from Biden VP consideration  —  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada said Thursday that she's not interested in serving as running mate to presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden.  —  Cortez Masto, who in 2016 became …

Temperature Checks and Desk Shields: C.D.C. Suggests Big Changes to Offices  —  Temperature checks, desk shields and no public transit: The guidelines would remake office life.  Some may decide it's easier to keep employees at home.  —  Upon arriving at work, employees should get a temperature and symptom check.

The Never Trumpers might finally be on to something  —  The quandary of the “Never Trump” Republicans has always been that although they get plenty of attention from the media, their success in persuading rank-and-file members of their party to reject this president has been negligible at best.

Picking Up The Pieces  —  A Minneapolis Case Study  —  When Officer Rod Webber quickly approached the car that Hamza Jeylani was sitting in, the 17-year-old hit record on his cell phone.1 Moments earlier, Jeylani and three friends were pulled over by the officer after making a U-turn …

First look: Trump courts Asian-American vote amid coronavirus  —  The president's re-election campaign debuts its “Asian Americans for Trump” initiative in a virtual event tonight, courting a slice of the nation's electorate that has experienced a surge in racism and harassment since the pandemic began.

F.B.I. Once Investigated Trump Campaign Adviser's Ties to Egypt  —  Investigators scrutinized ties between Walid Phares and the Egyptian government.  He was never charged with a crime.  —  WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. and the special counsel's office investigated whether a former Trump campaign …

Administration initially dispensed scarce covid-19 drug to some hospitals that didn't need it  —  Officials describe early missteps that delayed treatment to critically ill patients.  —  The Trump administration mishandled the initial distribution of the only approved coronavirus medication …

This former intelligence official was a hero.  He's now the target of a brutal campaign by MBS.  —  For intelligence officers, there's a special horror at abandoning colleagues who helped fight common enemies.  There's a sense of moral betrayal and shattered trust — a violation of the unwritten rules of the spy trade.