Trump campaign demands CNN apologize for poll that shows Biden leading  —  CNN poll: Trump sees big drop in approval rating  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's campaign is demanding CNN retract and apologize for a recent poll that showed him well behind presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

As Trump struggles to respond to crises, internal polling instills fear in advisers: Sources  —  Some advisers say the president needs a course correction before November.  —  One week ago President Donald Trump met with advisers from his 2020 re-election campaign, who greeted him with bad news.

USA TODAY Poll: Forceful clearing of Lafayette Square protest was defining moment for president and protests  —  The police crackdown to clear protesters from Lafayette Square last week looms as a defining moment in the national debate over race and law enforcement that has been sparked by the death of George Floyd.

The White House vs. John Bolton  —  Officials are attempting to use national security as a pretext to prevent the publication of his memoir.  —  President Trump doesn't want John Bolton to publish his book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.”

Three corporations that say they support Black Lives Matter but sponsor Tucker Carlson [UPDATED]  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)  —  Over the last several days, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has used his platform to repeatedly attack and denigrate the Black Lives Matter movement.

NASCAR Says It Will Ban Confederate Flags  —  The announcement came two days after Darrell Wallace Jr., the first black driver in 50 years to win one of NASCAR's top three national touring series, called on NASCAR to ban the flags outright.  —  NASCAR said on Wednesday that it would ban …

‘Everything about this is irregular’: Ex-judge tapped to review Flynn case blasts Trump DOJ  —  A former judge selected to advise on a path forward in the criminal case against Michael Flynn is accusing the Justice Department of exercising a “gross abuse of prosecutorial power” …

LeBron James and Other Stars Form a Voting Rights Group  —  “This is the time for us to finally make a difference,” the N.B.A. superstar said of the new group, which will aim to protect African-Americans' voting rights.  —  WASHINGTON — The N.B.A. superstar LeBron James and a group …

‘Live P.D.’ Canceled By A&E Amid Ongoing Protests Against Police Brutality  —  EXCLUSIVE: A&E has canceled its flagship series and one of the highest-rated shows on basic cable.  A week after Live P.D. was pulled in the wake of George Floyd's death, the reality series' has been canceled.

J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues  —  This isn't an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it's time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity.  I write this without any desire to add to that toxicity.

Senate Armed Services on collision course with Trump over Confederate names  —  White House says Trump would not sign legislation renaming military assets  —  The Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday voted to require the Pentagon to rename military bases and other assets named …

Beheaded Christopher Columbus Statue In Boston Will Be Removed From North End Park  —  BOSTON (CBS) - The Christopher Columbus statue in Boston's North End will be removed Wednesday, hours after it was beheaded overnight.  Mayor Marty Walsh said it will be put in storage and there will now be conversations …

Donald Trump's Increasingly Elaborate Bid to Create His Own America  —  On Tuesday morning, Donald Trump, whose unsurprising character defects still never fail to surprise, tweeted a Russian-sourced conspiracy theory claiming that the 75-year-old peace activist who remains hospitalized …

Louisville police release the Breonna Taylor incident report.  It's virtually blank  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Nearly three months after Louisville Metro Police officers fatally shot Breonna Taylor in her South End apartment, the department has released the incident report from that night.

HISTORY!  Congress Poised to Get Its First QAnon Believer  —  Barring the unexpected, Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to be elected the next representative from Georgia's 14th district.  And boy does she have some wild ideas.  —  A believer in a conspiracy theory the FBI classifies …

Trump Job Approval Slides to 39%  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's job approval rating has fallen to 39% amid nationwide protests about racial injustice.  His ratings this year had been the best of his presidency but are now back near his term average of 40%.

POLITICO Playbook PM: White House crafting police overhaul executive order  —  NEW: POLICE REFORM EXECUTIVE ORDER ...  PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP and the White House are in the process of discussing and drafting an executive order to begin the process of overhauling police laws, according to multiple sources involved in the effort.

Britain briefly suspends sending evidence to U.S. law enforcement, in move some see as a sign of fraying relationship  —  British authorities earlier this month told their American counterparts that they had suspended sending over all evidence in criminal cases because the United States still uses …

Aggressive Tactics by National Guard, Ordered to Appease Trump, Wounded the Military, Too  —  The world responded the evangelical guard the eyes of the world were gone.  The National Guard.  The actions that occurred this past week, were absolutely used to work.

‘Change agent’ Charles Booker is best Democratic candidate in Kentucky Senate race  —  This is a historic time in our state and nation.  A time when young and old, black, white and brown are calling for change — not just incremental change, but sweeping reform that will usher in true equality and justice for all.

The Protests Come for ‘Paw Patrol’  —  A backlash is mounting against depictions of “good cops,” on television and in the street.  —  It was only a matter of time before the protests came for “Paw Patrol.”  —  “Paw Patrol” is a children's cartoon about a squad of canine helpers.

Former DIA Director: Please, take your knee off our necks so we can breathe  —  “It's hard to explain what it was like for me on the first day of elementary school, or the pain I felt in high school when I was stopped and searched nearly every time I left my apartment.”

‘America is at a tipping point’: Oprah Winfrey states US 'can't move forward without calling out pain of racism' following George Floyd's death  —  Oprah Winfrey has stated that America is ‘on a tipping point’ following the death of George Floyd and has called for systemic change in a town hall titled Where Do We Go From Here?.

Quarantine fatigue: Governors reject new lockdowns as virus cases spike  —  State officials, reluctant to damage reopening economies, contend they are better equipped for a new wave of cases.  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announces the reopening of more Texas businesses in May. He is moving ahead …

Biden repeatedly pushed bill in Senate that critics said would have made investigating police officers for misconduct more difficult  —  (CNN)In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has called for more accountability for police officers accused …

House impeachment managers: Trump is as lawless and corrupt as ever  —  Adam Schiff (Calif.), Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), Zoe Lofgren (Calif.), Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), Val Demings (Fla.), Sylvia Garcia (Tex.) and Jason Crow (Colo.) were the Democratic House managers in the impeachment trial of President Trump.

George Floyd and Derek Chauvin “bumped heads” while working at nightclub, former coworker says  —  As mourners in Houston honor the life of George Floyd in Minneapolis, CBS News is learning new details from a nightclub coworker about alleged history between Floyd and Derek Chauvin, the former officer who is charged in Floyd's death.

We are implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition  —  We're implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of Amazon's facial recognition technology.  We will continue to allow organizations like Thorn, the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children …

A report from the big white suburban guilty girls picnic march  —  Urban trekking around Denver the other day, I happened across a protest march of maybe a thousand people.  Here's what I observed.  —  The marchers were almost all white.  I saw fewer than a dozen black people and no Hispanics.