In major victory for California, Supreme Court rejects Trump's challenge to state sanctuary law  —  The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the Trump administration's challenge to a California “sanctuary” law, leaving intact rules that prohibit law enforcement officials from aiding federal agents …

Revealed: The Family Member Who Turned on Trump  —  The president's niece Mary Trump is set to publish a tell-all this summer—and to reveal that she was a primary source for The New York Times' investigation into Trump's taxes.  —  Donald Trump's niece, his deceased brother's daughter …

'We're thinking landslide': Beyond D.C., GOP officials see Trump on glide path to reelection  —  By most conventional indicators, Donald Trump is in danger of becoming a one-term president.  The economy is a wreck, the coronavirus persists, and his poll numbers have deteriorated.

Tulsa World editorial: This is the wrong time and Tulsa is the wrong place for the Trump rally  —  President Donald Trump is coming to town this week for a campaign rally.  —  It will be his first since such events were suspended earlier this year because of the COVID-19 shutdown.

NYC COVID-19 Contact Tracers Not Asking About George Floyd Protest Participation, Despite Fears of New Virus Wave  —  Over the two last weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio and others have voiced concerns that packed police brutality protests across the city could trigger a new wave of COVID-19 infections.

Trump's showmanship is now backfiring on him  —  (CNN)Donald Trump's showmanship — a key ingredient in his unorthodox reality show-style approach to the presidency — is beginning to fail him, increasingly emphasizing his disconnect with many Americans and struggles to manage crises besieging the White House.

U.S. National Pride Falls to Record Low  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — American pride has continued its downward trajectory reaching the lowest point in the two decades of Gallup measurement.  The new low comes at a time when the U.S. faces public health and economic crises brought …

Newsrooms Are in Revolt.  The Bosses Are in Their Country Houses.  —  Those who can afford it left the city, shining a spotlight on class divisions in the media.  —  EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. — Real estate out here is too expensive for a working person, so the East Hampton Golf Club usually provides shared houses for its caddies.

A War Against Climate Science, Waged by Washington's Rank and File  —  Efforts to block research on climate change don't just come from the Trump political appointees on top.  Lower managers in government are taking their cues, and running with them.  —  WASHINGTON — Efforts …

The police shooting of Rayshard Brooks was tragic, but justifiable  —  On Friday night in Atlanta, we witnessed an all-too-familiar scene in the age of viral video.  A bystander used a cellphone to capture video of two cops engaged in a violent struggle on the ground with a noncompliant suspect.

American sentenced to 16 years in Russia on spying charges  —  MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Monday sentenced an American businessman to 16 years in prison on spying charges, a sentence that he and his brother rejected as being political.  —  The Moscow City Court read out the conviction …

Bezos agrees to testify before Congress on Amazon's competitive practices  —  House Judiciary Committee leaders in May threatened to subpoena the CEO's testimony on Amazon's treatment of third-party vendors.  —  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.  Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Amazon

Why Trump Is Right To Worry About That Glass of Water  —  What to call it—"Photo-oops"?  “Glass of Watergate?”  —  Whatever the label, when the videos appeared on Saturday of President Trump shuffling down that ramp at West Point, a general walking attentively by his side …

Perhaps The Best Campaign Ad Ever  —  I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.  I use this blog to keep in touch with my current and former students.  Teachers and students at other schools, as well as others interested in economic issues, are welcome to use this resource.

Georgia Democrats set new primary turnout record, outpacing GOP voters  —  Democrats set a new turnout record for primary voting in last week's Georgia vote, soaring past 1 million voters to outpace Republicans during an election plagued by significant obstacles at polling sites.

The Postal Service Is Steadily Getting Worse — Can It Handle a National Mail-In Election?  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Two weeks after the polls closed in this year's Ohio primary …

Republicans are Planning a Bigger, Much More Aggressive, Much Better-Funded Voter Suppression Program in 2020  —  Imagine having $20 million and using it to oppose voting rights.  That is what the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Trump campaign announced they will do in response …

Trump's loyalty enforcer steamrolls Cabinet officials in campaign to reshape top agencies  —  President Trump, in a highly unusual new effort, has begun making significant staffing changes inside top federal agencies without the consent — and, in at least one case, without even the knowledge …

The liberal media's deadly art of racial hatred and keeping America divided  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  You can tell a lie by saying something patently false.  Or you can lie by omission, which can be just as dishonest.  —  “Fatal police shootings impervious to protests,” said The Washington Post front page headline last Tuesday.

2020 Watch: Will Trump's return to campaign trail backfire?  —  MONTCLAIR, N.J. (AP) — Presidential politics move fast.  What we're watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign:  —  Days to next set of primaries (New York and Kentucky): 8  —  Days to general election: 141  —  ___

Greenwood, 1921: One of the worst race massacres in American history  —  In 1921, a thriving black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, burned, leaving hundreds dead.  —  The death of George Floyd, in the hands of Minneapolis police, came on Memorial Day.  Ninety-nine years before, that same week, black Americans suffered a massacre.

Trump's birthday marks RNC, Trump campaign's single best online fundraising day ever  —  EXCLUSIVE: The Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign posted their largest online fundraising day ever on Sunday, bringing in $14 million across three entities on the president's birthday …

Putin Says U.S. Is in ‘Deep Internal Crisis’  —  The Russian leader described an America poisoned by racism and violence and paralyzed by the refusal of President Trump's opponents to accept the 2016 election results.  —  MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Sunday described …

CDC Media Guidance Blacklists VOA Interview Requests  —  WASHINGTON - A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention email released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) tells communications staff to ignore media requests from Voice of America, according to documents published by the Knight First Amendment Institute.

Everyone Does Better When the President's a Democrat  —  The numbers don't lie.  The question is why every Democrat isn't talking about this all the time.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  Our two political parties have certain identities that are seared into our collective public brain.