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 …

FDA ends emergency use of hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus  —  The Food and Drug Administration on Monday withdrew emergency use authorizations for two coronavirus treatments that President Donald Trump promoted despite concerns about their safety and effectiveness.

'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.

Jon Stewart Says His Biggest ‘Daily Show’ Regret Is Legacy Of “Evisceration Expectation”  —  Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart says he regrets his show's taking part in what he calls “the evisceration expectation” - inviting political opponents like Bill O'Reilly onto the show and giving in to the …

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 …

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 administration expected to attempt to block John Bolton's book: Sources  —  A lawsuit seeking an injunction could be filed as soon as today, sources say.  —  Just a week before the much-awaited book by President Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton is set to go on sale …

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 …

Biden fundraising surged in May  —  The former vice president's campaign has tripled the number of online donors since February.  —  Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.  Joe Biden's presidential campaign announced it raised $81 million last month, fueled by his rise in the polls …

HUD secretary says he'll ‘work’ Trump on athletes kneeling  —  Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 9, 2020.  (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Trump Touted The Economy's COVID Resilience While His Top Aide Dumped His Stocks  —  Former Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney sold up to $550,000 in securities the same day that his boss declared that the “economy is doing fantastically.”  —  As the novel coronavirus began to tank the stock market …

Biden ahead by 14 among registered voters; Trump approval below 40%  —  With less than 150 days until Americans choose a President for the next four years, Abacus (one of Canada's most accurate polling company in the 2019 federal election) surveyed 1500 Americans on their feelings about the choice coming up …

Rancor Erupts In ‘LA Times’ Newsroom Over Race, Equity And Protest Coverage  —  The Los Angeles Times' top editor is scrambling to placate journalists of color after years of often-unfulfilled promises by the paper to make grand progress in the diversity of the newsroom's ranks.

Inspectors general warn Congress that Trump administration is blocking scrutiny of bailout programs as uproar over small business disclosure intensifies  —  In memo, inspectors general say Trump administration memo attempts to shield oversight of how money is being spent

Florida protester Oluwatoyin Salau found dead in Tallahassee after going missing  —  Oluwatoyin Salau, a 19-year-old protester who begged for justice in the wake of black lives lost, has died.  —  Police and family confirmed the death Monday morning.  —  Salau was one of two homicide …

Has The American Left Lost Its Mind? … Matt Taibbi, a journalist whose writing I enjoy and whose recent book Hate Inc. is worth reading, has written a J'accuse essay arguing that “the American left has lost its mind.”  As the editor of one of the top five or six magazines of the American Left—okay, maybe top 10?

Tucker Carlson Matters … Tucker Carlson matters.  —  I'm not saying black lives don't matter as well.  They do.  Of course, they do.  I mean that sincerely.  —  Right now, a concerted effort to eliminate Tucker Carlson—his show, his views, his opinions, his advertisers …

The Monument-Destroying Mobs Don't Hate The Confederacy, They Hate America  —  The mobs defacing and pulling down monuments across America have no limiting principle because their target is America itself.  —  Angry mobs are tearing down and defacing monuments across America.

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.

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.