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 …

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 …

‘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 …

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 …

Trump gets the 2016 band back together as he tumbles in polls  —  President Donald Trump, increasingly nervous about the direction of his campaign as he struggles in general election polls, is considering bringing back more loyal aides from his successful campaign in 2016, according to five Republicans who speak to the president.

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.

Bipartisan group of lawmakers, with Speaker Gunn's blessing, pushes to change Mississippi state flag  —  A bipartisan group of Mississippi lawmakers, with the blessing of Speaker of the House Philip Gunn, began whipping votes and drafting a resolution on Monday to change the state flag …

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 …

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.

Live Coronavirus Updates: A Warning From the W.H.O.  —  Seven million people have been infected worldwide, and new cases hit a high globally on Sunday, according to the W.H.O. Central banks are seeking new tools to offset the downturn.  —  RIGHT NOW New Jersey's governor said on Tuesday …

He Tweeted That He Was the Leader of Antifa.  Then the FBI Asked Him to Be an Informant.  —  It all began with a tweet.  Chandler Wirostek, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was reading the news last Monday when he saw that the attorney general had declared that the leaderless anti-fascist movement known …

The Untold Power of Bill Barr to Direct US Military Forces in Case of “Civil Unrest”  —  Left completely to his own devices, President Trump apparently sees no problem with deploying U.S. military forces to American streets even when there's no need for such intervention.

Trent Lott fired by top lobbying firm  —  The lobbying firm Squire Patton Boggs has fired former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, one of Washington's most prominent lobbyists.  —  The firm gave no reason for the Mississippi Republican's sudden departure and declined to answer questions about it.

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 …

What the Pandemic Revealed  —  On March 3, in response to reports that some Republican lawmakers favored free testing and treatments for COVID-19, Derek Thompson of The Atlantic tweeted, “There are no libertarians in a pandemic.”  The witticism bounced all over social media during the ensuing days …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

New voting machines cause lines and problems on Georgia election day  —  Problems with Georgia's new voting computers plagued the state's primary election Tuesday, leading to lines and voters leaving without casting their ballots.  —  Poll workers said they had difficulties turning …

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.

POLITICO Playbook PM: It's more than just a tweet  —  THE CHASM BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT and pretty much everyone else in Washington is growing, as DONALD TRUMP seems more alone and isolated with his thoughts, and detached from the overall political conversation in the Capitol, and the rest of America.

Tucker Carlson says protests are ‘definitely not about black lives,’ prompting backlash  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson faced intense backlash Monday night after he argued that the nationwide unrest over racism and police brutality sparked by the death of George Floyd “is definitely not about black lives.”

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …