Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley discussed resigning over role in Trump's church photo op  —  The Pentagon's top general discussed resigning amid criticism over his participation in President Donald Trump's controversial photo op at a Washington church, three defense officials familiar with the matter told NBC News.

Scoop: Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt Are the First Couple of Fox  —  Two of the Murdoch network's staunchest Trump defenders have been quietly in a relationship for months.  —  On a Friday last August, Sean Hannity flew his private helicopter to Trump National Golf Course in Colts Neck …

Latest USA Voting Intention (8 and 9 June)  —  Redfield & Wilton Strategies' latest national voting intention poll of 1,500 registered voters in the United States conducted on June 8 and 9 finds Joseph Biden leading by 13%.  Biden's lead is 6% greater than our previous voting intention poll in May …

Advertisers Abandon Tucker Carlson in Droves After His Attacks on Black Lives Matter  —  ‘BYE-BYE TUCKER!’  —  Tucker Carlson—the Fox News host who has spent the past few weeks working himself up into an absolute frenzy over the protests against George Floyd's death—is losing advertisers, and fast.

Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Rally Attendees Cannot Sue if They Get Covid-19, Campaign Says  —  Markets saw their sharpest drop in months after grim forecasts and an uptick in cases in parts of the United States.  Known cases in Africa doubled in the last 18 days.

NYPD lieutenant apologizes for kneeling alongside George Floyd protesters  —  A Manhattan NYPD lieutenant sent an email to his fellow officers apologizing for kneeling alongside George Floyd protesters late last month — telling them that “the cop in me wants to kick my own ass.”

Louisville Metro Council Agrees To Ban No-Knock Raids  —  Breonna Taylor was killed nearly three months ago during a no-knock raid.  All 26 members of the Metro Council have signed on as co-sponsors to “Breonna's Law,” which would ban them.  —  Nearly three months after Louisville …

‘His Brain Is Injured:’ Lawyer Updates on 75-Year-Old NY Protester Shoved by Police  —  The confrontation during a peaceful protest in Buffalo, New York, last week was captured on video that has since gone viral  —  What to Know  — The 75-year-old man hospitalized after he was pushed …

The Still-Vital Case for Liberalism in a Radical Age  —  David Shor is a 28-year-old political data analyst and social democrat who worked for President Obama's reelection campaign.  On May 28, Shor tweeted out a short summary of a paper by Princeton professor Omar Wasow.

Forecasting the US elections  —  The Economist is analysing polling, economic and demographic data to predict America's elections in 2020 How this works President Last updated 27 minutes ago National forecast COMPETITIVE STATES Arizona Florida Georgia Iowa Michigan Nevada …

Stock losses mount with the Dow plunging 1,700 points for its worst day in nearly 3 months  —  Stocks plunge as coronavirus cases spike after some states reopen  —  The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 1,500 points on Thursday and was on pace for its worst day since …

BREAKING: Twitter Admits China Used Nearly 200,000 Fake Accounts To Influence Politics, 150x More Than Russia  —  The Chinese Communist Party has weaponized nearly 200,000 Twitter accounts to disseminate “state-linked” propaganda while Russia, the left's boogeyman for pro-Trump election interference, had under 1,200 accounts.

Chicago police made coffee and popcorn in US Rep. Bobby Rush's office while shopping plaza was being looted, he says  —  Chicago police officers made popcorn and coffee in U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush's office while nearby businesses were being looted, he announced at a stunning news conference alongside Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Trump snubs Dallas' top law enforcement officials, all black, for talk about policing and race in Dallas  —  The White House defends exclusion of Dallas' police chief, sheriff and DA from a talk on race relations and police ahead of the president's $10M campaign dinner.

Free Food, Free Speech and Free of Police: Inside Seattle's ‘Autonomous Zone’  —  President Trump challenged Seattle's mayor to “take back your city” after police vacated a precinct and protesters laid claim to the neighborhood around it.  —  SEATTLE — On the streets next to a police precinct …

'I feel good.  I'm alive': Two years after diagnosis, Harry Reid says he's cancer free  —  Harry M. Reid has a message for these incredibly bleak times: Keep fighting.  —  Last summer the former Senate majority leader hid from the obvious fact that pancreatic cancer was on the verge of defeating him.

Republican leaders secretly recorded by Gov. Tony Evers' staff, infuriating GOP lawmakers  —  MADISON - Republican legislative leaders lashed out Wednesday at Democratic Gov. Tony Evers after his staff secretly recorded a May 14 phone conversation over how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic …

Is OAN the Leading Edge of Russian Misinformation?  —  In what appears to be a signal of intensifying political warfare ahead of the November election, One America News Network, the Trump-supporting cable channel that has been promoting anti-Biden conspiracies for several months …

How New York's Coronavirus Response Made the Pandemic Worse  —  The hasty expansion of medical facilities by state, city and hospital leaders led to grave mistakes, a Wall Street Journal investigation found; ‘wartime conditions’  —  New York leaders faced an unanticipated crisis …

G.O.P. Platform, Rolled Over From 2016, Condemns the ‘Current President’  —  The party's 2020 platform includes more than three dozen unflattering references to those in power at the White House, after the Republican National Committee chose not to change its language from four years ago.

Scrubbing Confederate names from Army bases gains steam in Congress, but fight with Trump looms  —  An effort to remove the names of Confederate leaders from military bases is gaining traction with both parties on Capitol — but it won't become law without a fight.

Suspect in Santa Cruz ambush linked to federal officer killing in Oakland; charged with 19 felonies  —  Suspect was a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force  —  A U.S. Air Force sergeant accused of ambushing Santa Cruz County deputies is also believed to be the gunman who shot a federal officer in Oakland …

A Letter to the West Point Class of 2020, from fellow members of the Long Gray Line  —  You are beginning your careers at a tumultuous time.  More than 110,000 Americans have died of COVID-19, more than 40 million are unemployed, and our nation is hurting from racial, social and human injustice.

2 SC National Guardsmen found glass baked into pizza they ordered while on DC deployment  —  The soldiers were staying at the Marriott Marquis Hotel during their mission to the nation's capital when they decided to order a pizza from a nearby establishment using Uber Eats …

McConnell: Statues are up to the states  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that it's up to the states to decide whether to remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol.  —  “Every state is allowed two statues.  They can trade them out any time,” McConnell told reporters.

Tulsa police release body cam video of officers handcuffing black teenagers for jaywalking  —  (CNN)Tulsa police have released body camera footage from two officers who arrested a black teenager and handcuffed a second for jaywalking last week.  —  The videos were released in response …

Liberal groups back plan to expand Supreme Court  —  The movement on the left to pack the Supreme Court is gaining momentum.  —  A group of progressive organizations is for the first time supporting the proposal to add justices to the court in hopes of weakening the conservative majority, according to a memo provided to POLITICO.

POLITICO Playbook: Trump's latest zigzag  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE FOLLOWING THINGS HAPPENED in one single week: President DONALD TRUMP scheduled a listening session on police reform.  He had staff working feverishly behind the scenes to craft an executive order to address systemic ills in law enforcement.

Caught In De Blasio's Curfew, Essential Worker Spends Week In Jail After NYPD Mass Arrests Bronx Protesters  —  It wasn't yet curfew when the cops trapped Devaughnta Williams.  After clocking out at his job as a janitor at a city social services building on Thursday evening …

Trump's most loyal media ally promised a pro-Trump poll.  It didn't deliver — and then pulled its story.  —  CNN's release of a poll this week showing President Trump trailing former vice president Joe Biden by 14 points nationally clearly rattled the president and his reelection campaign.

Dr. Amy Acton resigns as state health director amid coronavirus pandemic  —  Turning down pleas from Gov. Mike DeWine to stay on the job, Dr. Amy Acton surprisingly resigned Thursday as director of the Ohio Department of Health amid the coronavirus pandemic.