memeorandum: Secret Service now says it did use pepper spray to clear protesters during the Trump church photo op (Lauren Egan/NBC News)

Shaddi Abusaid / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Man shot, killed by Atlanta police in Wendy's drive-thru — A 27-year-old man was shot and killed by Atlanta police Friday evening during a struggle in a Wendy's drive-thru line that was captured on cellphone video, the GBI said. — At a protest held outside the restaurant on Saturday morning …

Discussion: Georgia Bureau …, Axios, Vox, Just The News, New York Post, The Hill, TheGrio and The Root

TMZ.com:

Atlanta Police Fatally Shoot Black Man in the Back at Wendy's, New Video to Be Released — 1:14 PM PT — The head of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation just said his dept. will release the Wendy's surveillance video later Saturday. He acknowledges Brooks was shot while fleeing the officers with taser in hand.

Discussion: The Daily Dot

Vanessa McCray / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

BREAKING: Atlanta police chief resigns — Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Saturday that police Chief Erika Shields is stepping aside and the city will launch a search for her replacement. — Bottoms said Shields offered her resignation, which the mayor accepted.

Discussion: Common Dreams

ABC News: Man dead after being shot by Atlanta police, GBI investigating

Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:

Fox News removes manipulated images from coverage of Seattle protests — Fox News on Friday removed manipulated images that had appeared on its website as part of the conservative outlet's coverage of protests over the killing of George Floyd, which have occasioned peaceful assemblies …

Discussion: The Hill, The Daily Dot, Daily Kos, Digby's Hullabaloo and Contemptor, more at Mediagazer »

Oliver Darcy / CNN:

Fox News publishes digitally altered and misleading images of Seattle demonstrations — New York (CNN Business)Fox News published digitally altered and misleading images on its website's homepage Friday that made a demonstration in Seattle, in which a group of largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, Rolling Stone and Mashable

Jim Carlton / Wall Street Journal:
Seattle Protesters Negotiate Over Leaving ‘Autonomous Zone’

Discussion: The Wrap, The Hill, New York Post and National Review

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:

Jonathan Turley rips Cornell Law faculty letter against me: “It is the antipathy of the intellectual foundations for higher education” — “There is an enforced orthodoxy that is captured in the Cornell letter. These letters are successful in creating a chilling effect on academics who are intimidated by these threats.”

Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY and Instapundit

New York Times:

Oakdale, Minn. — Before this moment of America's reckoning with race, the warm spring air was already charged. — A killer virus had ripped through black communities. Bullets, too. — Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. And then the death of a black man after an encounter with a white police officer …

theepochtimes.com:
A New Silent Majority Is Coming

Discussion: American Thinker and Instapundit

New York Times:

Graduating West Point Cadets Isolate for Two Weeks Ahead of Trump Speech — The address comes as the coronavirus spreads — and during a breakdown in relations between the president and the nation's top military leaders. — WASHINGTON — The graduating cadets at the United States Military Academy …

Discussion: Breitbart, NBC News, Politico and Gothamist

Grace Segers / CBS News: Trump praises cadets in commencement address at West Point

Annie Karni / New York Times:
Latest Crop of West Point Graduates Includes First Observant Sikh Cadet

Discussion: Axios

Lauren Egan / NBC News:

Secret Service now says it did use pepper spray to clear protesters during the Trump church photo op — WASHINGTON — The United States Secret Service said Saturday that one of their agents had used pepper spray to clear protesters from Lafayette Square ahead of President Donald Trump's photo op …

Discussion: Fox News, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Axios, Politico and Raw Story

Yashar Ali / HuffPost:

'To Say That She's An Abusive Figure Is An Understatement': At ABC News, Toxicity Thrives — Sources say Barbara Fedida, a powerful ABC News executive, has an extensive history of insensitive comments. She's now been placed on administrative leave while the network investigates.

Discussion: Deadline, more at Mediagazer »

Tampa Bay Times:

St. Pete bars the Galley, Park & Rec and the Avenue Eat + Drink close after employees test positive for COVID-19 — Management at all three say they won't reopen until all employees have been tested for the coronavirus. — ST. PETERSBURG — Three downtown bars within a couple of blocks …

Harry Enten / CNN:

Joe Biden is winning female voters by a historic margin — CNN poll: Trump sees big drop in approval rating — (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in the polls for a lot of different reasons. One large one is his support from female voters.

Mary Jordan / Washington Post:

How Melania Trump blocked Ivanka Trump from encroaching on her domain — Melania Trump did not even like to be called by her new title at first. — “She said, ‘Stop calling me first lady,’ ” recalled one of the people who worked with Melania after the election.

Discussion: TheGrio, IJR and New York Times

CNN:

These lifelong Republicans may vote for Biden come November — Carefree, Arizona (CNN)In this bedroom community north of Phoenix, two gray-haired white residents stand silently at a dusty intersection, holding up homemade signs in the blistering 100-plus-degree heat.

Ken Dilanian / NBC News:

From ‘beautiful letters’ to ‘a dark nightmare’: How Trump's North Korea gamble went bust — WASHINGTON — North Korea officially declared an end Friday to its diplomatic dalliance with the U.S. But experts say it's been clear for some time that President Donald Trump's bold but risky effort …

Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo and KCNA Watch

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Tight polls put GOP on edge in Texas — AUSTIN — Texas Republicans are on edge as polls show President Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden running neck and neck in the Lone Star State with less than five months to go before Election Day. — Most GOP operatives …

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA

Paula Froelich / New York Post:

Alternate reading of Mayan calendar suggests end of the world is next week — If you thought COVID-19, civil unrest, locusts, volcanic eruptions and hurricanes signaled Armageddon — you may be right! — The reading of the Mayan calendar was wrong according to a conspiracy theory on Twitter …

Frank Bajak / Associated Press:

Activists cite tabulation flaw in mail-in ballots in Georgia — Faulty software or poorly calibrated vote-tabulation scanners used to count mailed-in ballots in this week's chaotic Georgia primary may have prevented thousands of votes from being counted, election officials and voting integrity activists say.

New York Times:

Biden's Vice-Presidential Search: Who's on the List and Where It Stands — The search committee is conducting interviews and seeking private documents, and prospects like Val Demings and Keisha Lance Bottoms are getting a closer look as political currents influence the search.

Discussion: The Hill

Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:

Mississippi faces reckoning on Confederate emblem in flag — JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The young activists who launched a protest movement after George Floyd's death are bringing fresh energy to a long-simmering debate about the Confederate battle emblem that white supremacists embedded within …

Hannah Leone / Chicago Tribune:

Joyce Kenner leads Whitney Young, but after George Floyd's killing she faces calls to resign: 'If I don't understand about black people and oppression, nobody else does.' — After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, an 11-year-old Joyce Kenner witnessed people take to the streets …

Vincent Barone / New York Post:

Three indicted for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at NYPD vehicles, face life in prison — An upstate woman and two Brooklyn lawyers were indicted Friday on federal explosives and arson charges for allegedly tossing Molotov cocktails at NYPD vehicles during George Floyd protests in New York City.

Tina Nguyen / Politico:

QAnon marches toward the halls of Congress — For the last three years, the amorphous QAnon conspiracy movement has seeped into the fringes of President Donald Trump's internet world, with supporters even popping up at the president's rallies. — But QAnon adherents are now filtering into electoral politics.

Discussion: Washington Post

Shashank Bengali / Los Angeles Times:

The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing a tidal wave of plastic waste — When he stepped onto a beach on Hong Kong's uninhabited Soko Islands, Gary Stokes was surprised to find — amid the discarded water bottles, shopping bags and usual piles of plastic waste — a new type of garbage washing ashore.

Oli Coleman / Page Six:

Howard Stern under fire for past use of blackface, skit with N-word — Howard Stern has become the latest in a long list of celebrities and power players to be forced to confront their use of blackface. — On Thursday a video appeared online showing Stern in minstrel-style makeup, liberally using the N-word.

Joel Oliphint / Columbus Alive:

‘We were terrified and confused’: The curious case of the colorful school bus — Joel Oliphint Associate Editor, Columbus Alive @joeloliphint — A group of hippie circus performers on a converted bus named Buttercup were briefly detained by a SWAT team at a Downtown protest.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Chris McCrory / WWL-TV:

NOPD strips sergeant of power, investigating social media posts about protesters — His alleged social media comments were posted as the U.S. wrestles with institutional racism in law enforcement forces across the country. — NEW ORLEANS — An NOPD Sergeant was decommissioned and suspended Friday …

Discussion: Raw Story

Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:

NBC anchor asks Tim Scott to say whether he's a ‘token’ — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is the only black Republican senator. — He is also the only member of Congress's upper chamber who is subjected regularly to the racist allegation that he is a “token.”