2 longshots rise in Biden VP search  —  Wide-scale protests that have exposed deep racial tensions across the nation in the last two weeks are reshaping the contours of Joe Biden's search for a vice presidential pick, sharpening the focus on an African American woman as his running mate …

CNN Poll: Trump losing ground to Biden amid chaotic week  —  (CNN)As protesters gather daily near the White House and the coronavirus pandemic rages on, the American public is souring on President Donald Trump.  A new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS finds Trump's approval rating down 7 points …

Minneapolis City Council Members Announce Intent To Disband The Police Department, Invest In Proven Community-Led Public Safety  —  The move follows the police killing of George Floyd and more than a week of uprisings, where hundreds of thousands of people around the world have protested …

Inside the Revolts Erupting in America's Big Newsrooms  —  Staff members' demands helped end the tenure of James Bennet as Opinion editor of The New York Times.  And they are generating tension at The Washington Post.  Part of the story starts in Ferguson, Mo.

When 511 Epidemiologists Expect to Fly, Hug and Do 18 Other Everyday Activities Again  —  When will life return to normal?  This is the answer of epidemiologists, as embroidered by one of them, Melissa Sharp.  —  Eve Edelheit for The New York Times  —  Many epidemiologists are already comfortable …

‘Black Americans want to stop being killed’: Democrats unveil sweeping police reform bill  —  Top Democrats unveiled a major police reform bill Monday morning in an effort to galvanize public pressure into legislative action as protesters nationwide demand racial justice after the killing of George Floyd.

White House is considering a Trump speech to the nation on race and unity  —  (CNN)After a weekend of massive peaceful protests around the country, White House officials are currently deliberating a plan for President Donald Trump to address the nation this week on issues related to race and national unity …

Is This the Last Stand of the ‘Law and Order’ Republicans?  —  On the seventh day of convulsive demonstrations sweeping across the United States in response to the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department, George W. Bush issued …

Shutdowns prevented 60 million coronavirus infections in the U.S., study finds  —  Shutdown orders prevented about 60 million novel coronavirus infections in the United States and 285 million in China, according to a research study published Monday that examined how stay-at-home orders …

The Long View John Lewis, congressman and civil-rights legend, will never lose hope.  —  John Lewis has seen a lot in his 80 years, from a modest youth as the third of ten children in an Alabama sharecropping family, to a brutal and exhilarating early adulthood in the civil-rights movement …

Defund the police?  Here's what that really means.  —  Christy E. Lopez is a professor at Georgetown Law School and a co-director of the school's Innovative Policing Program.  —  Since George Floyd's death, a long-simmering movement for police abolition has become part of the national conversation …

Arizona GOP's 10-Year Plan to Turn the State Blue  —  Are the state's Republicans in trouble because of Trump, or is Trump in trouble because of the state party?  Too close to call!  —  Recent polls suggest that Democrat Mark Kelly is likely to handily win the Senate race in Arizona …

Man drives into Seattle George Floyd protest, shoots one protester  —  A man drove into a Seattle crowd protesting the death in police custody of George Floyd before shooting one of the demonstrators on Sunday, police said.  —  The suspect was detained and the 27-year-old man who was shot …

Family demands answers after unarmed black man killed by N.J. trooper, attorney says  —  On May 23, a routine traffic stop ended with a New Jersey State Police trooper shooting a black man to death on the side of the Garden State Parkway.  —  Maurice Gordon, 28, of Poughkeepsie, New York …

Satellite data suggests coronavirus may have hit China earlier: Researchers  —  Researchers say surge in cars at hospitals may indicate outbreak in fall.  —  Dramatic spikes in auto traffic around major hospitals in Wuhan last fall suggest the novel coronavirus may have been present …

Hospitals Got Bailouts and Furloughed Thousands While Paying C.E.O.s Millions  —  Dozens of top recipients of government aid have laid off, furloughed or cut the pay of tens of thousands of employees.  —  HCA Healthcare is one of the world's wealthiest hospital chains.

Byron York's Daily Memo: Defund the police!  Defund the police!  —  Welcome to Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter.  —  Was this email forwarded to you?  Sign up here to receive the newsletter.  —  DEFUND THE POLICE!  DEFUND THE POLICE!  What seemed like a crazy slogan on the far left …

John Bolton plans to publish a tell-all about his time in the White House in late June  —  John Bolton is forging ahead with plans to publish a scathing memoir about his time in President Trump's White House and is in negotiations with network television channels to promote the book, according to people familiar with the talks.

Why Romney Marched  —  The clip was short, but surreal: Mitt Romney—his face wrapped in a white mask, his sleeves rolled at the wrists—marches toward the White House alongside protesters chanting about police brutality.  A reporter asks him what he's doing there, and the Republican senator …