Secret Service tells press to leave White House grounds in highly unusual move  —  (CNN)The US Secret Service on Monday evening told members of the White House press corps to immediately leave the White House grounds, a highly unusual decision that did not immediately come with an explanation.

“Brad Really S—t the Bed Saturday Night”: After Tulsa Catastrophe, Parscale—And Kushner—Is at the Top of Trump's Hit List  —  Trump is pondering putting Kushner antagonists atop the campaign—"We can't allow Jared's stupid disagreements to get in the way," he said—but the problem is likely at the top.

Key Democratic primaries for House in N.Y. and Senate in Kentucky  —  New York's coronavirus-delayed primary is Tuesday — and it has the potential to throw a wrench into the power structure in the Democratic-controlled House — while in Kentucky there's a Democratic battle for the right …

Trump increasingly preoccupied with defending his physical and mental health  —  The early June meeting in the Cabinet Room was intended as a general update on President Trump's reelection campaign, but the president had other topics on his mind.  —  Trump had taken a cognitive screening test …

Scoop: House Judiciary prepares to subpoena Attorney General Bill Barr  —  House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is preparing to subpoena Attorney General Bill Barr for his testimony on July 2, a committee spokesperson confirmed to Axios.  —  Why it matters: The expected subpoena comes …

Mike Pence and his wife Karen voted by mail in April from a mansion they haven't lived in for four years  — Vice President Mike Pence and his wife mailed in their ballots for Indiana's June GOP primary, according to a copy of the state's voter files obtained by Insider.

Trump team weighs a CDC scrubbing to deflect mounting criticism  —  White House officials are putting a target on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, positioning the agency as a coronavirus scapegoat as cases surge in many states and the U.S. falls behind other nations that are taming the pandemic.

U.S. Army Soldier Charged With Terrorism Offenses For Planning Deadly Ambush On Service Members In His Unit  —  U.S. Army Private Ethan Melzer Sent Sensitive U.S. Military Information to Members of a Neo-Nazi Group in an Attempt to Facilitate a “Mass Casualty” Attack on Melzer's Army Unit

Trump falsely accuses Obama of treason in latest unfounded attack on his predecessor  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump has falsely accused former President Barack Obama of committing treason in his latest unfounded accusation aimed at his predecessor.  —  Trump for months has publicly accused Obama …

Univ. of Michigan bows out of 2nd presidential debate and it's moved to Miami  —  WASHINGTON — The second 2020 presidential debate this fall will be held in Miami instead of the University of Michigan, which originally planned to host it, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Tuesday.

Trump says China deal ‘intact’ hours after aide declares it ‘over’  —  A trade deal worth $200 billion between China and the United States is “fully intact,” President Donald Trump said Monday night, just hours after his senior trade adviser rattled markets by saying the pact was “over.”

Bolton on a Trump second term: Be afraid  —  Inviting biological weapons attacks, withdrawing the U.S. from NATO and criminalizing political dissent: John Bolton tells Axios these are some of his fears about what could come to pass if President Trump is elected to a second term.

Steve Bing Dies: Film Financier & Philanthropist Jumped From Century City Building, Authorities Say  —  Steve Bing, the film financier and philanthropist who backed hit movies from Robert Zemeckis' The Polar Express and Beowulf to the Rolling Stones' Shine A Light concert movie, has died.

NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog  —  So, I kind of deleted the blog.  Sorry.  Here's my explanation.  —  Last week I talked to a New York Times technology reporter who was planning to write a story on Slate Star Codex.

My Family Saw a Police Car Hit a Kid on Halloween.  Then I Learned How NYPD Impunity Works.  —  ProPublica Deputy Managing Editor Eric Umansky's family saw an unmarked NYPD cruiser hit a Black teenager.  He tried to find out how it happened, and instead found all of the ways the NYPD is shielded from accountability.

Activists halt street protests in South Carolina as some demonstrators become infected  —  South Carolina racial justice activists said they would postpone future demonstrations or move them online after at least 13 people who took part in previous protests tested positive for the coronavirus.

Health Officials Had to Face a Pandemic.  Then Came the Death Threats.  —  State and local health officials have found themselves at the center of regular news briefings amid the coronavirus outbreak, making them targets for harassment and threats.  —  Leaders of local and state health departments …

A Reckoning Over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists  —  What's different, in this moment, is that the editors of our country's most esteemed outlets no longer hold a monopoly on publishing power.  —  It was a brief interaction, during the first weeks of my career.

AP-NORC poll: Nearly all in US back criminal justice reform  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans overwhelmingly want clear standards on when police officers may use force and consequences for officers who do so excessively, according to a new poll that finds nearly all Americans favor at least …

Trump Didn't ‘Send In the Troops.’ They Were Already There.  —  Police today can turn out with more weaponry than I had in 1992, as a Marine deployed to a burning Los Angeles.  What does it mean to project this much force at home?  —  A little more than 28 years ago, a convoy of Marines drove north on Interstate 5 toward Los Angeles.

Winona Ryder lost a movie role because a producer thought she looked “too Jewish”  —  The Stranger Things actress opens-up about experiencing anti-Semitism.  —  Winona Ryder has said she was once overlooked for a movie role because the producer said she looked “too Jewish”.

Authors quit JK Rowling agency over transgender rights  —  Writers had asked company ‘to reaffirm their commitment to transgender rights and equality’  —  Four authors represented by JK Rowling's literary agency have resigned after accusing the company of declining to issue a public statement of support for transgender rights.

Trump Heads to Arizona, an Emerging Election Battleground  —  ‘They should be very concerned about Arizona,’ says a former Republican National Committee chairman, pointing to pandemic, economy and civil unrest  —  President Trump heads to Arizona as the once reliably conservative state …

America's Jacobin Moment  —  The cultural putsch in America's institutions strikes at liberal values.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Anger at the killing of George Floyd has spurred useful reflection about race and perhaps some important police reform.  But the political and cultural forces …