Trump Aides Know His Polls Are Terrible—And Tell Him Otherwise  —  The re-election campaign is increasingly divided between the realist and the wishful thinkers.  —  This past week, Donald Trump's campaign did what one senior aide on the president's 2020 team described to The Daily Beast as the …

Trump rally called ‘dangerous move’ in age of coronavirus  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — After months away from the campaign trail, President Donald Trump plans to rally his supporters this coming Saturday for the first time since most of the country was shuttered by the coronavirus.

Atlanta officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks has been terminated  —  (CNN)The Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks has been terminated, Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos told CNN Saturday.  A second officer involved has been placed on administrative duty, Campos said.

Trump tries to explain his slow and unsteady walk down a ramp at West Point  —  BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump late Saturday tried to explain his slow and unsteady walk down a ramp at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, which had generated concern and mockery on social media …

Iowa Poll: Theresa Greenfield leads Joni Ernst in tight race for U.S. Senate  —  Fresh off a four-way primary race that drew millions in outside spending, Democrat Theresa Greenfield leads Republican Sen. Joni Ernst by 3 percentage points in Iowa's hotly contested U.S. Senate race, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows.

Trump supporters burn Michigan absentee ballot applications  —  Walker, Mich. — People burned letters informing them that they can vote by absentee ballot in future elections during a protest near Grand Rapids.  —  The applications were burned Friday during an event called Operation Incinerator outside the DeltaPlex Arena in Walker.

Coronavirus Cases Spike Across Sun Belt as Economy Lurches into Motion  —  Arizona, Texas and Florida are reporting their highest case numbers yet.  As of Saturday, coronavirus cases were climbing in 22 states amid reopenings.  —  CHICAGO — The warning has echoed ominously for weeks from epidemiologists …

Rep. Denver Riggleman ousted in Virginia GOP convention  —  Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.), who became a target of conservatives after officiating a same-sex wedding last year, was ousted Saturday by GOP voters in a drive-thru district convention.  —  Convention-goers picked Bob Good …

It's Trump's Revolution  —  His supporters wanted a bulwark against liberalism.  But his failed presidency is pushing the country to the left.  —  In 1804, the Corsican upstart Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself as France's emperor.  His mother, born Letizia Ramolino, did not attend the coronation.

ABC News executive placed on administrative leave after reports surface of insensitive, racist statements  —  Barbara Fedida, a senior ABC News executive in charge of talent, is on administrative leave after a HuffPost report that detailed an alleged extensive history of making racist remarks …

WATCH NOW: Police vehicle strikes protesters in Richmond  —  1 of 33  —  A Richmond police SUV drove up on a curb, through a crowd, striking multiple people who were blocking the vehicle's path during a protest at the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue on Saturday night.

Make no mistake - BLM is a radical neo-Marxist political movement  —  The rapid spread of protests across the West under the Black Lives Matter banner has left a political breathlessness from Baltimore to Berlin.  Those in positions of authority are scrambling to show they are addressing endemic racism …

Fifty-four scientists have lost their jobs as a result of NIH probe into foreign ties  —  Some 54 scientists have resigned or been fired as a result of an ongoing investigation by the National Institutes of Health into the failure of NIH grantees to disclose financial ties to foreign governments.

Trump Boosts Georgia Candidate Who Peddles Antisemitic, QAnon Conspiracy Theories and Posed With a neo-Nazi  —  ‘A big winner,’ Trump said in a tweet Friday attached to a story on a pro-Trump website reporting on Marjorie Taylor Greene's primary result in Georgia's heavily Republican 14th District

James Clyburn: “Nobody is going to defund the police”  —  House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) pushed back on the idea of defunding the police on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday, insisting that “police have a role to play” and that the system can be restructured and reimagined in order to respond to the current crisis.

Roofing company workers forced onto ground, held at gunpoint by man who thought they were Antifa  —  Felony charges are possible in wake of the incident in a Loveland neighborhood.  A victim was a CSU football player.  —  LOVELAND, Colo. — A Loveland man faces felony charges …

An American Spring of Reckoning  —  In death, George Floyd's name has become a metaphor for the stacked inequities of the society that produced them.  —  Consider for a moment how the events of May 25th through June 9th—the days of democratic bedlam in the streets, bracketed by the death …

Airline passengers brought COVID-19 into LAX in March — and no one warned the public  —  When American Airlines flight 341 to Los Angeles lifted off the tarmac at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on a cloudy Thursday in mid-March, much of the country was already on coronavirus lockdown.

Sen. Tim Scott says a ‘path forward’ on police reform in Congress can be found  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Tim Scott, the South Carolina Republican leading his party's legislative charge to address police reform in the wake of nationwide protests over a string of killings of Black Americans by police …

Buffalo officials ask state to probe firing of Black officer who stopped white colleague's chokehold  —  The city council in Buffalo, New York, voted this week to call on State Attorney General Letitia James to investigate the 2008 firing of Black officer Cariol Horne, who stopped a white colleague …

As big corporations say ‘black lives matter,’ their track records raise skepticism  —  Corporate America — including Wall Street and Silicon Valley giants — is now pledging to play a bigger role in combating systemic racism across the United States, but an examination of companies' track records shows …