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.

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.

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.

A retired judge's sharp rebuke of William Barr confirms the worst  —  The latest development in the saga of Michael Flynn — disgraced former national security adviser, admitted criminal, conspiracy theorist and all-around sleaze — gives us yet more evidence of how completely President Trump …

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 …

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.”

Senate Armed Services on collision course with Trump over Confederate names  —  The Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday voted to require the Pentagon to rename military bases and other assets named after Confederate generals, a move that puts the Republican-led panel on a collision course with the White House.

Trump Will Return to Campaign Trail With Rally in Tulsa  —  The president is set to hold his first rally since the coronavirus shuttered most of the country, with polls showing Joe Biden establishing a significant national lead over his rival.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump will return …

Know The Signs: How to tell if your grandparent has become an antifa agent  —  Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment.  @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed.

'I can't breathe,' Oklahoma man tells police before dying.  'I don't care,' officer responds.  —  Newly released body camera footage from an arrest in Oklahoma City last year shows a suspect saying “I can't breathe” before he died at a hospital.  —  In the May 20, 2019 footage …

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 …

Portsmouth Confederate statues beheaded, partially pulled down by protesters … Demonstrators beheaded the four Confederate statues before pulling one down using a tow rope Wednesday night at the Portsmouth Confederate monument as police watched.  —  A protester was injured as the statue fell, hitting him on the head.

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.

NASCAR truck racer Ray Ciccarelli says he's quitting after Confederate flag ban  —  On Wednesday, NASCAR made a huge announcement regarding the Confederate flag.  Then, driver Ray Ciccarelli made an announcement of his own.  —  Ciccarelli is a 50-year-old racer.

‘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.

Noel Francisco to step down as US solicitor general, sources say  —  (CNN)US Solicitor General Noel Francisco is expected to resign from his role as the government's top lawyer before the Supreme Court in the coming days, according to two sources familiar with the move.

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.

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 …

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.

Patagonia CEO Steps Down, Search Begins For a Successor  —  Patagonia is searching for a new chief executive officer to lead the company as it emerges alongside the rest of retail from a lengthy shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.  —  CEO Rose Marcario is leaving Patagonia after six years on the job …

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 …

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.

Fired inspector general says he told aides about Pompeo probe so that they 'wouldn't be surprised'  —  Before he was fired last month, State Department Inspector General Steve Linick said, he told top aides he was investigating the personal conduct of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife …

‘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.

City of Asheville votes to remove Confederate monuments  —  There were two major developments at Tuesday night's Asheville city council meeting — council members unanimously approved a joint resolution for the removal of Confederate monuments and Asheville's police chief announced sweeping changes to his department.

Speaker Pelosi wants Confederate statues in Capitol removed  —  She's pushing for the removal of eleven Confederate statues.  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Wednesday called for the removal of nearly a dozen Confederate statues from the halls of Congress, throwing …

Coronavirus infections appear to spike in U.S. even as they decline elsewhere  —  While many countries are seeing a decline in COVID-19 cases, infections in the United States appear to be spiking, according to documents obtained by Yahoo News.  —  In a Centers for Disease Control …

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%.

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.

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 …

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.

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.

‘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” …