Clash near White House prompts Secret Service to tell press to leave grounds in unusual move  —  Washington (CNN)A confrontation between protesters and police in the park across the street from the White House on Monday evening led the US Secret Service to take the unusual step of ordering members …

“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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

Barring a landslide, what's probably not coming on Nov. 3?  A result in the race for the White House.  —  After voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada went to the polls this month, some races hung in the balance for days as election officials waded through thousands of absentee ballots.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

The Biden whisperer in the Senate  —  If Joe Biden wins in November, much of his agenda will hinge on a potentially surprising power-player: Chris Coons.  —  Facing a pandemic, struggling economy and perhaps myriad other crises, the gridlock that has long gripped the Senate …

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.

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 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.”

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.

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 …

What Democrats get wrong about the 2016 election  —  By any conventional measure — election polls, approval ratings, economic trends, pandemic death rates — President Trump should be headed for a sound beating in November.  —  Point this out to any nervous liberal, though, and you'll probably hear this rejoinder: “But 2016!”

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

Coronavirus Cases Are Climbing Again.  So What?  —  A dozen states have seen record highs in new coronavirus cases, blares the news media, accompanied by dire warnings of a “second wave” of the disease because those awful Republican states reopened too soon.

The Second Great Depression  —  The American economy is reopening.  In Alabama, gyms are back in business.  In Georgia, restaurants are seating customers again.  In Texas, the bars are packed.  And in Vermont, the stay-at-home order has been lifted.  People are still frightened.

Fox guest Rudy Giuliani: “Black Lives Matter wants to come and take your house away from you”  —  Giuliani: “There were well over 100 people wounded with guns and 25 Americans killed over the weekend.  That didn't happen accidentally, Laura.  That's part of a plan and we better wake up to it”