Live Updates on George Floyd Protests: Top General Apologizes for Role in Trump Photo Op  —  The country's top military official apologized for taking part in President Trump's walk across Lafayette Square for a photo op after authorities cleared the area of peaceful protesters.

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.

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.

Tucker Carlson's Fox News Show Loses Disney & Other Advertisers Over George Floyd Killing & Black Lives Matter POV  —  Tucker Carlson may have one of the most watched shows on cable news, but the Fox News Channel host is losing advertisers - again.  —  Whereas in 2018, over 20 companies yanked …

Lawmaker asks if ‘colored population’ not washing their hands as well as others behind COVID rates  —  During a hearing on whether to declare racism a public health crisis, state Sen. Steve Huffman, R-Tipp City, asked if “the colored population” is hit harder by the coronavirus because perhaps …

Estimated electoral college votes  —  Our model is updated every day and combines state and national polls with economic indicators to predict a range of outcomes.  The midpoint is the estimate of the electoral-college vote for each party on election day.  —  Chance of winning each state

Lara Logan, the Fox ‘Investigative Journalist’ Who Keeps Falling for Antifa Hoaxes  —  TRUST, DON'T VERIFY  —  Fox News has repeatedly used Logan to lend credibility to its “antifa” coverage, but she seems to have trouble distinguishing between hoaxes and credible information.

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 …

'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 …

Why Are So Many N.Y.P.D. Officers Refusing to Wear Masks at Protests?  —  Though the city is recording hundreds of new coronavirus cases each week and some officers have died, many are not heeding instructions to cover their faces.  —  Riot helmets, ballistic vests, shields, batons …

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.

Coronavirus deaths are expected to go down before a sharp rise in September, model shows  —  (CNN)The US surpassed 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases as experts predicted Thursday that tens of thousands more people will get infected and die in the months ahead.

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 …

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.

‘He has to get back to his life’: Trump looks past crises to resume his routine  —  The United States is embroiled in disputes and anger: divided over how to restart the economy, anxious over fresh coronavirus spikes, and raging over police brutality and racial injustice.

Man who claimed George Floyd and Derek Chauvin “bumped heads” changes story  —  Editor's Note: This story and headline have been updated to reflect a new account from David Pinney, who previously said he worked with George Floyd and Derek Chauvin.  —  A man who worked at the same club …

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.

Coronavirus chaos in Georgia, Wisconsin a ‘warning sign’ for Democrats  —  Even the act of voting has become a partisan issue with racial implications in 2020.  —  Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say they're willing to vote in person during a pandemic …

‘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.

A Presidency Is a Terrible Thing to Waste  —  President Trump is in the midst of a polling swoon largely of his own making.  —  Gallup has his approval rating at 39 percent, and his rating in the RealClearPolitics average is down to 42 percent  —  It's true that events have taken a hand …

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.

Journalist Blinded in One Eye During Protest Sues Minneapolis Police Chief  —  MINNEAPOLIS (CN) — A journalist who was left permanently blind in one eye after she was hit with a projectile during recent protests in Minneapolis claims in a federal lawsuit Wednesday that the city …

Milley Apologizes for Role in Trump Photo Op: ‘I Should Not Have Been There’  —  President Trump's walk across Lafayette Square, current and former military leaders say, has sparked a moment of reckoning in the military.  —  WASHINGTON — The country's top military official apologized …

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.

Ice Cube Under Fire for Tweeting Anti-Semitic Images and Conspiracy Theories  —  Twitter users are asking the actor and rapper to take the posts down  —  Ice Cube is facing criticism for sharing a number of anti-Semitic images and conspiracies on Twitter.  —  The actor, 50 …

Unemployment claims climbed by 1.5 million last week, despite jobs gains in May  —  Workers filed another 1.5 million claims for jobless benefits last week, the Labor Department reported, suggesting that some Americans are still being pushed out of work nearly three months into the pandemic.

U.S. Hits 2 Million Coronavirus Cases As Many States See A Surge Of Patients  —  Toggle more options  —  The U.S. has reached another dire landmark in its fight against COVID-19, surpassing 2 million confirmed cases on Wednesday.  New coronavirus infections are rising in at least 20 states …

The Corporate Media Is Now Controlled By The Radical Left  —  Top editors are rapidly resigning over allegations of racial insensitivity—most of which are correctable or forgivable if they're accurate—legitimizing the radical left's inane policing of our politics and culture.

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.

Four Years Embedded With the Alt-Right  —  What I learned about the seductive power of hate from making the documentary White Noise … White nationalists have always been able to find one another in America, but the recent resurgence of the white-nationalist movement …

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 …