‘My biggest risk’: Trump says mail-in voting could cost him reelection  —  President Donald Trump called mail-in voting the biggest threat to his reelection and said his campaign's multimillion-dollar legal effort to block expanded ballot access could determine whether he wins a second term.

Trump 'Couldn't Give a Shit' About China Rounding Up Millions of Muslims  —  John Bolton described a president perfectly fine with concentration camps being built in western China.  Administration officials say it's painfully true.  —  The ugliest claim made by John Bolton …

Tulsa imposes curfew ahead of Trump rally to prevent violent protesting  —  The city of Tulsa announced a last-minute curfew that began Thursday night and will continue Friday and Saturday, restricting people from a large area surrounding the arena where President Trump will hold his first campaign rally in months.

Trump's tailspinning presidency is in turmoil — even by his own standards  —  Washington (CNN)If he was any other President, at any other time, Donald Trump's reelection hopes would probably already be doomed.  —  Trump has endured one of the most disastrous political streaks of any modern commander …

Twitter labels Trump video tweet as manipulated media, continuing its crackdown on misinformation  —  The label marks the fourth time Twitter has added labels to the president's tweets.  —  Twitter on Thursday evening took the rare step of appending a warning label to one of President Trump's tweets …

AMC Theatres Unveils Plans to Reopen During Coronavirus  —  AMC Theatres, the world's largest exhibitor, has unveiled plans to re-open after coronavirus forced it to close its more than 600 venues in the U.S. for nearly four months.  —  The company is expected to resume operations in 450 …

Top State Department official resigns in protest of Trump's response to racial tensions in the country  —  A senior State Department official who has served in the Trump administration since its first day is resigning over President Trump's recent handling of racial tensions across the country …

Original ‘Juneteenth’ order found in the National Archives  —  The handwritten document informed the enslaved in Texas they were free on June 19, 1865  —  The National Archives on Thursday located what appears to be the original handwritten “Juneteenth” military order informing thousands …

Why Juneteenth Matters  —  It was black Americans who delivered on Lincoln's promise of “a new birth of freedom.”  —  Neither Abraham Lincoln nor the Republican Party freed the slaves.  They helped set freedom in motion and eventually codified it into law with the 13th Amendment …

Sorry, Junior, but He'll Never Love You Like He Loves Ivanka  —  Watching Donald Trump Jr. interview Donald Trump Sr. was crazy, and f*cked up, but mostly it was sad.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  It was billed as the Triggered Father's Day Special and at 8 PM on Thursday, the president's namesake …

Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88  —  The versatile actor went from the RSC and Harold Pinter to international movie stardom with roles as the hobbit Bilbo Baggins and an android in Alien  —  Ian Holm, the versatile actor who played everything …

Questions for the Government in the Bolton Book TRO Hearing(s)  —  Yesterday we analyzed the government's lawsuit that seeks to enjoin John Bolton (and, as a practical matter, his publisher and booksellers, too) from publishing or selling his book, The Room Where It Happened, and to recover any profits he receives from the book.

Sen. Klobuchar takes herself off Biden's list of possible running mates  —  Sen. Amy Klobuchar says a woman of color should be the one to serve alongside Joe Biden as vice president, and so she is withdrawing herself from consideration.  She talks to Lawrence O'Donnell about her decision.

Whistleblower: TSA Failed To Protect Staff, Endangered Passengers During Pandemic  —  Audio will be available later today.  —  The Transportation Security Administration withheld N-95 masks from staff and exhibited “gross mismanagement” in its response to the Coronavirus crisis …

Juan Williams Leaves Fox News Co-Hosts Speechless With Powerful Black Lives Matter Defense  —  “The Five” hosts had nothing to say after Williams condemned them for “demonizing” BLM protesters while giving violent white supremacists a pass.  —  As one of the very few left-leaning personalities still left …

Air Force Investigates Military Planes That Monitored Protesters  —  The Air Force inspector general is examining whether secretive National Guard surveillance aircraft improperly monitored demonstrators in Washington and Minneapolis.  —  WASHINGTON — The Air Force inspector general …

The History That James Baldwin Wanted America To See  —  For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie.  Could a true story be told?  —  On March 16, 1968, James Baldwin walked to the podium at a fund-raiser, at Anaheim's Disneyland Hotel, to introduce Dr. Martin Luther King …

The Burning of Black Wall Street, Revisited  —  Nearly a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, the search for the dead continues.  —  Mr. Staples is a member of the editorial board.  —  The lynch mobs that hanged, shot or burned African-Americans alive during the early 20th century sometimes varied …

New 2020 Electoral College Ratings  —  With just under five months until the election, President Trump is a severe underdog for re-election.  Polls show that voters do not trust him to handle the two most pressing issues of the day — the coronavirus pandemic and race relations — which has helped drive his job approval to 41 percent.

Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names  —  Ayanna Pressley and Harriet Tubman both used naming in a way to evoke power.  —  “SoJo,” the cat of Representative Ayanna Pressley, Democrat of Massachusetts, is a celebrity in her own right.  SoJo is a minor Twitter influencer …

Trump says he's heard ‘interesting’ things about Roswell  —  President Donald Trump says he's heard some interesting things about Roswell, but he's not sharing even with his eldest child.  —  Trump made the comments Thursday in a Father's Day-themed interview with his son Don Trump Jr., hosted by the president's reelection campaign.

Retired generals pull support for Trump nominee after offensive tweets uncovered by CNN  —  (CNN)At least two retired Army generals have pulled their support for President Donald Trump's nominee to oversee the Pentagon's policy shop after CNN's KFile reported last week that he has a history …

The ‘blue wall’ is reforming in the Rust Belt  —  In 2016, President Trump broke through Hillary Clinton's “blue wall.”  He won three states that Democrats had carried since the 1980s: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.  —  As Politico explained in an analysis last December that examined …

SEC to Mississippi: Change Confederate-themed flag or risk losing college sports events  —  The NCAA's Southeastern Conference commissioner warned that Mississippi could lose SEC championship games if it doesn't alter the state flag..  —  The NCAA's Southeastern Conference on Thursday told …

The Seattle Soviet  —  “What,” Marx asked, “is the Commune, that sphinx so tantalizing to the bourgeois mind?”  —  In 1871 the Commune was the revolutionary government of Paris, a revolt against the newborn Third Republic of Adolphe Thiers.  The communards, drawn from the ranks of city-dwelling laborers …