Google bans two websites from its ad platform over protest articles  —  Google has banned two far-right websites from its advertising platform after research revealed the tech giant was profiting from articles pushing unsubstantiated claims about the Black Lives Matter protests.

North Carolina Republican calls Black Lives Matter protesters ‘ignorant thugs’ and ‘vermin’ — and says cops should ‘shoot them’  —  According to The Charlotte Observer, North Carolina state Rep. Larry Pittman posted an inflammatory rant against Black Lives Matter protesters on Facebook …

There Isn't a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’  —  With testing, treatments and vaccine trials ramping up, we are far better off than the media report.  —  In recent days, the media has taken to sounding the alarm bells over a “second wave” of coronavirus infections.  Such panic is overblown.

Franklin Graham fumes over SCOTUS ruling: My rights to fire LGBTQ people ‘are the freedoms our nation was founded on’  —  Anti-LGBTQ activist Franklin Graham is furious over Monday's Supreme Court ruling that finds Title Vii of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination …

Second Michigan poll shows Trump even farther behind, with Biden leading by 16 points  —  The damage done to President Donald Trump's standing in Michigan following recent protests outside the White House and in cities across the U.S. may have been even greater than originally believed …

Woman, 15 friends test positive for coronavirus after night out at Lynch's  —  40-year-old health care worker says she regrets not taking precautions  —  JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. - Erika Crisp has been short of breath for several days and has tested positive for COVID-19.  —  So have more than a dozen of her friends.

Nebraska Democrats renounce their Senate pick over comments  —  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Democratic Party called on its U.S. Senate nominee to drop out of the race Tuesday after he made sexually repugnant comments about a campaign staffer in a group text with her and other staffers.

Suspect in killing of 2 Bay Area cops tied to right-wing Boogaloo group, prosecutors allege  —  An Air Force sergeant suspected of killing a Santa Cruz County sheriff's sergeant will be charged, along with a Millbrae man, in the fatal shooting of a federal security officer last month in downtown Oakland, federal officials said Tuesday.

U.S. Files Breach-of-Contract Suit Against Ex-National Security Adviser John Bolton  —  Suit claims Bolton will compromise national security by publishing book it says contains classified information  —  The U.S. on Tuesday filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against former national security …

Prosecutor in Roger Stone Case Will Testify About Barr's Intervention  —  The prosecutor is one of two Justice Department officials coming forward whom Democrats are calling whistle-blowers.  —  WASHINGTON — Two Justice Department officials have agreed to testify under subpoena …

McConnell to keep grip on GOP even if Republicans lose Senate  —  Mitch McConnell spent much of his life laboring to become Senate majority leader.  And for the past six years, he's used that position to become one of the most consequential party leaders in decades.

Flushing the Toilet May Fling Coronavirus Aerosols All Over  —  A new study shows how turbulence from a toilet bowl can create a large plume that is potentially infectious to a bathroom's next visitor.  —  Here's one more behavior to be hyper-aware of in order to prevent coronavirus transmission: what you do after you use the toilet.

Trump offers full-throated defense of police in executive action signing  —  Trump considers executive order on police reform  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump takes his first concrete steps on Tuesday to address growing national outcry over police brutality when he signs an executive order creating …

Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug  —  A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.  —  The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.

Fact check: Pence falsely claims coronavirus cases in Oklahoma are on the decline  —  Trump moves Tulsa campaign rally from Juneteenth  —  Washington (CNN)During a White House roundtable Monday, Vice President Mike Pence claimed that Oklahoma - where President Donald Trump is scheduled …

Elite CIA unit that developed hacking tools failed to secure its own systems, allowing massive leak, an internal report found  —  The theft of top-secret computer hacking tools from the CIA in 2016 was the result of a workplace culture in which the agency's elite computer hackers …

Poll: Americans are the unhappiest they've been in 50 years  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Spoiler alert: 2020 has been rough on the American psyche.  Folks in the U.S. are more unhappy today than they've been in nearly 50 years.  —  This bold — yet unsurprising …

Governor Reynolds will issue order on felon voting rights  —  Governor Kim Reynolds will issue an executive order that automatically restores felon voting rights before the November election.  —  “We're working on that right now, sitting down with various groups, listening to what they think is important …

Netflix's billionaire founder is secretly building a luxury retreat for teachers in rural Colorado  —  His Colorado retreat is the latest in Reed Hastings's decades-long attempt to figure out how exactly he wants to spend his now-$5 billion of net worth to improve American schools.

Miami pauses reopening as Florida's new coronavirus cases rise  —  The state reported a record-high one-day increase of 2,783 new cases on Tuesday.  —  Miami, among Florida's most populous cities, won't move into the next phase of reopening because of concern over rising COVID-19 cases …

Worst Clash in Decades on Disputed India-China Border Kills 20 Indian Troops  —  Under nationalist leaders, the nuclear-armed rivals have been increasingly assertive toward neighbors, risking open conflict.  They have contested their Himalayan border for generations.

For Black CEOs in Silicon Valley, Humiliation Is a Part of Doing Business  —  Will Hayes has grown accustomed to an awkward start to business meetings.  On numerous occasions, venture capitalists would confuse Hayes, the head of software company Lucidworks Inc., with another man on his executive team.

Trump's COVID Data Crunchers See Coronavirus Racing Down America's Major Highways  —  As more people are traveling, the virus is spreading.  And researchers are seeing it follow the paths of our busiest roads.  —  Doctors behind a COVID-modeling study used by the president's coronavirus task force …

Somebody's Gotta Help Me"  —  Phillip Garcia was in psychiatric crisis.  In jail and in the hospital, guards responded with force and restrained the 51-year-old inmate for almost 20 hours, until he died. … MORENO VALLEY, Calif. — Phillip Garcia was desperate to sit up.

Trump says Obama didn't reform policing.  But he did and then the president ditched it.  —  President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that his predecessor did not take action on reforming police in America — despite the fact that it was under Trump that several Obama-era reforms were scrapped.

Chaos in Georgia, Part II  —  Part I is here.  —  (Information from this thread is taken from the report I'm currently working on for the Georgia Voter Protection Organization.)  —  In March when the pandemic hit, the GA Secretary of State mailed applications for Vote By Mail (VBM) ballots to all voters on the rolls: 6.9 million.

The Russian Disinfo Operation You Never Heard About  —  The campaign known as Secondary Infektion appears to be a distinct effort from the meddling of the IRA and GRU—and it went undetected for years.  —  The Internet Research Agency is infamous for flooding mainstream social media platforms with compelling disinformation campaigns.