Biden opens 13-point advantage as Trump popularity drops to seven-month low: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has opened up a 13-point lead over President Donald Trump - the widest margin this year - according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll …

Trump Considers Suing His Niece Over Her Tell-All Book, Saying She Signed an NDA  —  The president has long favored using legal threats to stop people from writing bad books about him.  Going after his own family may be next.  —  This past Sunday, news broke that the president's niece …

Fauci: No Need for a Second Lockdown for COVID-19  —  The infectious-diseases specialist doesn't think we'll have another New York City.  But he's nervous about re-openings and said he personally wouldn't go to Trump's rallies.  —  With top officials in the Trump White House declaring …

260 workers test positive for COVID-19 at Orlando International Airport  —  2,993 people have died from COVID-19 in the state  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Gov. Ron DeSantis said 260 workers at the Orlando International Airport have tested positive for the coronavirus after nearly 500 employees were tested.

Scoop: Republican operatives launch pro-Biden super PAC  —  A group of prominent Republican operatives that includes former officials from the Trump and George W. Bush administrations are launching a super PAC to turn out GOP voters for Joe Biden in November, organizers tell Axios.

Aunt Jemima brand to change name, remove image that Quaker says is ‘based on a racial stereotype’  —  The Aunt Jemima brand of syrup and pancake mix will get a new name and image, Quaker Oats announced Wednesday, saying the company recognizes that “Aunt Jemima's origins are based on a racial stereotype.”

ICU bed use, ER visits hit new highs for Arizona COVID-19 cases  —  Arizona's daily coronavirus numbers climbed again Monday, continuing more than two weeks of high numbers of reported cases, deaths and hospitalizations.  —  The state reported 1,014 new cases Monday.

Pelosi asks House committees to require masks, setting up clash with GOP holdouts  —  Masks have become the norm inside the House of Representatives, where some politicians now embrace the novel coronavirus precaution with colorful odes to their home districts.

Mark Zuckerberg: Historic Facebook campaign will boost voter registration, turnout and voices  —  The 2020 election is going to be unlike any other.  It was already going to be a heated campaign, and that was before the pandemic — and before the killing of George Floyd and so many others forced us yet again …

GOP's Tom Cotton Says Twitter Threatened to Lock Account Over Tweet  —  Republican Senator Tom Cotton said a “low-level” Twitter Inc. employee called his office several weeks ago and threatened to permanently lock his account unless he deleted a tweet that advocated using the military …

Montgomery City Council votes down mask ordinance, sends doctors out in disgust  —  Jackson Hospital pulmonologist William Saliski cleared his throat as he started describing the dire situation created by the coronavirus pandemic in Montgomery to its City Council before they voted on a mandatory mask ordinance.

Facebook Groups Are Destroying America  —  They're built for privacy and community—and that's just what makes them dangerous.  —  The Covid-19 “infodemic” has laid bare how vulnerable the United States is to disinformation.  The country is less than five months away from the 2020 presidential election …

Tucker Carlson Is Most-Watched Host In Cable News For Last Week  —  With an average total audience of four million viewers, Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson finished the week of June 8 through June 14 as the most-watched host in all of cable news, despite the decision by some advertisers …

Texas Governor Says ‘No Reason Today To Be Alarmed’ As Coronavirus Cases Set Record  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday the state's highest-ever number of new COVID-19 cases: 2,622.  —  He also reported a second record high: 2,518 people hospitalized with the virus in Texas, up from 2,326 a day earlier.

GOP senator: Proposal to remove Confederate names from military bases ‘picks on South unfairly’  —  (CNN)A Senate amendment to remove the names of Confederate leaders on military property “picks on the South unfairly,” a GOP senator said Tuesday, the latest sign that President Donald Trump's opposition …

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.

An officer was gunned down.  The killer was a ‘Boogaloo Boy’ using nearby peaceful protests as cover, feds say.  —  As protests gripped Oakland on May 29, a white van pulled up outside a federal courthouse.  A door slid open, and a man peppered the two security officers outside with bullets, killing one and injuring the other.

Trump Administration Sues to Try to Delay Publication of Bolton's Book  —  The request comes a week before the highly anticipated memoir was set to be published.  —  The Trump administration sued the former national security adviser John R. Bolton on Tuesday to try to delay publication …

Trump turns to establishment players to offset his renegade instincts  —  Nearly two years after boasting that his gut tells him “more sometimes than anybody else's brain,” President Donald Trump is ditching his go-it-alone approach — hoping the instincts and experiences of seasoned Republican players …

Beijing's new outbreak raises fears for rest of the world  —  BEIJING (AP) — China raised its emergency warning to its second highest level and canceled more than 60% of the flights to Beijing on Wednesday amid a new coronavirus outbreak in the capital — a sharp pullback for the nation …

Buffalo protester Martin Gugino has a fractured skull and cannot walk  —  (CNN)Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old protester who was pushed by two Buffalo, New York, police officers earlier this month, has a fractured skull and is not able to walk, his lawyer said in a statement provided to CNN on Monday.

COVID-19: Spike in new cases continues Tuesday, as Oklahoma reports another new high … Tuesday marked the highest single-day total yet in new COVID-19 cases in Oklahoma.  —  That count came on the heels of successive days in which the deadly disease has far exceeded peaks in April …

How Black N.Y.P.D. Officers Really Feel About the Floyd Protesters  —  Most officers of color share the protesters' mission to defeat racism, but the unrest has reminded the officers that they are still often seen as the enemy.  —  Edwin Raymond, a black lieutenant in the Police Department …

Michigan May be a Nightmare for the GOP  —  The state party's transformation didn't start with Trump.  But his weak polling could plunge MIGOP into wrack and ruin.  —  Simon & Garfunkel sang “Michigan seems like a dream to me now” as they went off to look for America.

Chickens Fly the Coop at Voice of America  —  The unintentionally hysterical Washington Post headline said it all: “Top Voice of America editors resign amid strife with White House.”  Post media reporter Paul Farhi apparenty has a different view of “strife” than the generally accepted one found in Funk & Wagnalls.

Lafayette Square could decide Trump's legacy — and election  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Charlottesville.  Helsinki.  The children in cages at the Mexican border.  —  And now Lafayette Square.  —  Only a few legacy-defining moments have clung to President Donald Trump, who often appears …

Is Trump Trying to Spread Covid-19?  —  Does he start each day wondering what expert advice to ignore next?  —  When the full record of the coronavirus in America is written, historians may argue that President Trump's biggest mistake was not what he failed to do in early 2020 …

Trump Midwest challenges escalate as Iowa goes from sure-bet to swing state  —  Iowa is back on the map as a top-tier battleground, with President Trump moving to rebuff surging presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden with early television advertising and campaign appearances by Vice President Mike Pence.

How to Topple a Statue Using Science  —  It hasn't been a great past few weeks for statues.  —  to  —  , people all over the world have been grappling with the  —  legacy of racism  —  by tossing their grappling hooks around the heads of  —  problematic monuments

Civil Rights Groups Push for Facebook Ad Boycott  —  Anti-Defamation League, NAACP and others seek protest of what they say is company's failure to make its platform a less-hostile place  —  Several American civil-rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP …

‘We just need a win’: The left unites to take down Eliot Engel  —  Desperate for victory after watching the presidential nomination slip through their fingers, progressives have found a new cause to rally around.  —  Across the country, they're channeling their grief, volunteer muscle …