Trump Criticizes 75-Year-Old Buffalo Protester Injured in Altercation With Police  —  Two Buffalo, N.Y., police officers were charged with felony assault in connection with the Thursday night altercation that was caught on video  —  President Trump criticized a 75-year-old protester …

Trump's latest attempt to tag Biden as a radical flops  —  Joe Biden declared he opposed a growing movement on the left to defund police departments.  —  President Donald Trump and Republicans are determined to make him own it anyway.  —  Trump lit into Biden on Twitter …

14 states and Puerto Rico hit highest seven-day average of new coronavirus infections  —  The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free.  For more free coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, sign up for our Coronavirus Updates newsletter where all stories are free to read.

Donald Trump Jr.'s Mongolia Hunting Trip Cost Taxpayers $77,000  —  The president's son apparently hunted with a major GOP donor and bagged a rare sheep.  —  Donald Trump Jr.'s trip last summer to Mongolia to kill an endangered sheep cost American taxpayers nearly $77,000 in Secret Service costs alone …

Team Trump ‘Desperately’ Wants Bush to Endorse Biden.  Some Dems Love the Idea, Too.  —  A president once reviled could prove to be an easy punching bag for Trump or a signal of bipartisan appeal for Biden.  Choose your own adventure.  —  President Donald Trump and his political lieutenants …

Officer Who Violently Shoved Protester in Brooklyn to Face Charges  —  The police officer, who was recorded knocking down a young woman that questioned his order, surrendered himself on Tuesday.  —  A New York City police officer surrendered to face criminal charges on Tuesday …

Trump Camp Runs Ads on D.C. Cable to Ease the Boss' Anxieties and Buck Up Congressional GOPers  —  The president has been worried about his standing electorally.  So his team gave him some content to watch on his favorite cable networks.  —  With their boss growing increasingly agitated …

White America is reckoning with racism.  It could reshape 2020.  —  Joe Biden says he, like many white people, was wrong about racism in America.  —  “I thought we had made enormous progress when we finally elected an African American president,” he told voters in a livestreamed “Young Americans Town Hall” last week.

‘The Future Is Blue, Not Purple’: Is This the Year Georgia Flips?  —  With both Senate seats in play and President Trump up for re-election in November, Georgia Democrats are telling anyone who will listen: This time, it's real.  —  ATLANTA — There's a joke about Atlanta's most popular sports teams …

Wave of New Polling Suggests an Erosion of Trump's Support  —  Joe Biden appears in a stronger position to oust an incumbent president than any challenger since Bill Clinton in the summer of 1992.  —  The coronavirus pandemic, a severe economic downturn and the widespread demonstrations …

Confederate statue in Florida is removed in predawn hours  —  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Confederate statue that had been in a northeast Florida park for more than a century was removed in the predawn hours Tuesday ahead of a protest demanding racial equality.

St. Paul man arrested for burning down of Minneapolis police precinct  —  Accused of arson in federal court.  —  Photo Gallery  —  5 Images  —  ST. PAUL, Minn. - A federal charge has been filed against a St. Paul man for the burning down of the Third Police Precinct in Minneapolis.

Big majorities support protests over Floyd killing and say police need to change, poll finds  —  Americans overwhelmingly support the nationwide protests that have taken place since the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis, and they say police forces have not done enough …

American Psycho  —  To understand how Jared Kushner received the opportunity to fail at managing the federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic, you mostly need to know that he is married to the president's daughter.  But to truly grasp the distinctive style of failure that Kushner has brought …

This city disbanded its police department 7 years ago.  Here's what happened next  —  (CNN)Last week, Minneapolis officials confirmed they were considering a fairly rare course of action: disbanding the city police department.  —  It's not the first locale to break up a department, but no cities as populous have ever attempted it.

Have we normalized the COVID-19 death toll?  —  In early May, Charlie Warzel, a columnist at the New York Times, saw a tweet that hit him “like a ton of bricks.”  In the tweet, Eric Nelson, who works in book publishing, imagined a future in which Americans simply get used to the death toll from COVID-19 …

1968 Isn't The Only Parallel For This Political Moment  —  When protests kicked off throughout the nation a week and a half ago, commentators turned to history to make sense of events.  One year dominated the conversation: 1968.  Racial tensions, clashes between police and protesters …

Trump administration makes it easier for hunters to kill bear cubs and wolf pups in Alaska  —  A ban against luring mothers from their dens with doughnuts and other treats will be lifted  —  Hunters will soon be allowed to venture into national preserves in Alaska and engage in practices …

Take the Confederate Names Off Our Army Bases  —  As I have watched Confederate monuments being removed by state and local governments, and sometimes by the forceful will of the American people, the fact that 10 U.S. Army installations are named for Confederate officers has weighed on me.

New bill would prohibit the president from nuking a hurricane  —  The measure is a direct response to President Trump's reported suggestion of using nuclear bombs to defuse Atlantic tropical cyclones  —  Last August, Axios reported that President Trump repeatedly asked top national security officials …

Liberty's Jerry Falwell Jr. apologizes for tweet; director of diversity resigns  —  Faced with outrage from black alumni and the resignation of at least three African American staffers, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. has deleted and apologized for a two-week-old tweet that showed …

Bon Appétit, Refinery29 editors step down as calls for racial justice continue to reshape media landscape  —  Less than 24 hours after James Bennet resigned as editorial page editor of The New York Times, the social upheaval over racial injustice continues to force changes across the media industry.

Florida police organization offers to hire cops who were fired or resigned over police misconduct  —  (CNN)As the cries for police reform grow louder across the nation, some police departments are holding their officers accountable, firing or suspending those accused of excessive force during recent protests.

Georgia political wunderkind Niles Francis dishes on his state's primary  —  Those who follow Niles Francis's lively Twitter page — featuring his incisive and sometimes caustic commentary on electoral politics, along with detailed political maps he produces himself — may be surprised …

After tweet supporting ‘good police officers,’ Arizona State revokes journalism dean offer  —  Arizona State University has rescinded a job offer to the new dean of its journalism school after students complained of past microaggressions and other insensitive comments.

Why Are the Police in Charge of Road Safety?  —  It's an unacknowledged peculiarity that police are in charge of road safety.  Why should the arm of the state that investigates murder, rape and robbery also give out traffic tickets?  Traffic stops are the most common reason for contact with the police.

Amid US tension, Iran builds fake aircraft carrier to attack  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As tensions remain high between Iran and the U.S., the Islamic Republic appears to have constructed a new mock-up of an aircraft carrier off its southern coast for potential live-fire drills.

San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott ‘open’ to defunding police department  —  Chief Bill Scott's 2017 conference regarding the investigation into the leak of the Jeff Adachi police report and the raid on journalist Bryan Carmody's home raised perhaps more questions than answers.  Photo by Nikka Singh

Trump Rebuffs Protests Over Systemic Racism and Calls Police ‘Great People’  —  In a meeting with law enforcement officials, Mr. Trump said he opposed any defunding or dismantling of police departments, which many demonstrators have been demanding to address police violence.

Texas reports a record number of hospitalized coronavirus patients after state reopened early  — There are currently 1,935 Covid-19 patients in hospitals across the state, topping the previous hospitalization record of 1,888 patients on May 5, according to new data from the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Lobbying firm cuts ties to Trent Lott amid national anti-racism protests  —  Lobbying firm Squire Patton Boggs announced Monday evening it is severing ties with former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) following days of anti-racism protests across the country.  —  Mark Ruehlmann, chair and global CEO …