Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says  —  The Trump administration has been deliberating for months about what to do about a stunning intelligence assessment.  —  WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have concluded …

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Three weeks ago, I committed to reviewing our policies ahead of the 2020 elections.  That work is ongoing, but today I want to share some new policies to connect people with authoritative information about voting, crack down on voter suppression, and fight hate speech.

E.U. Plans to Bar Most U.S. Travelers When Bloc Reopens  —  Europe will allow outsiders to begin entering again on July 1, but the U.S. and Russia are now among the nations considered too risky because they have not controlled the coronavirus outbreak.  —  BRUSSELS — The European Union …

Poll: Trump Disapproval Hits All-Time High And He Trails Biden By 8  —  After weeks of protests against police brutality and racism, and amid a renewed spike in coronavirus cases, the number of voters disapproving of the job President Trump is doing is at an all-time high, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds.

Roger Stone ordered to report to prison July 14, as judge denies request for two-month delay  —  A federal judge has ordered Roger Stone to report to prison July 14, granting him a two-week delay because of the coronavirus pandemic, but not the two months that President Trump's confidant had requested with prosecutors' assent.

The Daily 202: Trump's legal argument for throwing out all of the ACA is a nightmare for Senate Republicans  —  President Trump insists on the campaign trail that he wants to protect insurance coverage for people with preexisting conditions.  His legal team just told the Supreme Court otherwise.

Republican nightmare: Trump vote-by-mail demonizing driving down GOP participation  —  President Trump's extreme opposition to mail-in ballots is more likely hurting him and down-ballot Republicans than it is helping him.  —  Mounting evidence in voter registration data, a survey …

Supreme Court Turns Down Request to Allow All Texans to Vote by Mail  —  Democrats in the state had urged the justices to reinstate a federal trial judge's order based on the 26th Amendment, which bars voting discrimination based on age.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said on Friday …

What Ever Happened to Joy Reid's Alleged Hackers and That FBI Investigation?  —  Joy Reid, a weekend fixture of MSNBC, is expected to take over a top weekday hour at the network: 7 p.m., the hour vacated by Hardball host Chris Matthews, who retired amid controversy earlier this year.

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Texas rolls back its reopening a day after pausing plans, as coronavirus cases rise  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Friday that he will roll back some of the state's reopening as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to rise.  —  “As I said from the start …

Trump Family Makes New Attempt to Kill Niece's Tell-All  —  A New York City judge called their filing “fatally defective,” so they have refiled in a different jurisdiction.  —  Fresh from one legal defeat, the Trump family is taking another stab at halting publication of presidential niece Mary Trump's upcoming tell-all.

Tom Cotton's Argument Against DC Statehood Is the Same One Racists Have Always Used  —  For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones' newsletters.  —  On Friday, the House of Representatives is set to pass a bill that would make Washington, DC, the 51st state.

Barr forms task force to counter ‘anti-government extremists’  —  Attorney General William P. Barr on Friday directed the formation of a task force that will be dedicated to countering “anti-government extremists,” escalating federal law enforcement's response to the violence …

You Want a Confederate Monument?  My Body Is a Confederate Monument  —  The black people I come from were owned and raped by the white people I come from.  Who dares to tell me to celebrate them?  —  Ms. Williams is a poet.  —  NASHVILLE — I have rape-colored skin.

Appeals court rules funding for Trump border wall construction ‘unlawful’  —  The Trump administration does not have the authority to use military funding to pay for construction of a border wall, a federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday.  —  In a 2-1 ruling, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court …

Trump Retreats to His Hannity Bunker  —  Beaten by the pandemic and down in the polls, a President and his propagandist create an alternate reality.  —  June began poorly for President Trump, and it's ending worse.  Despite his optimistic pronouncements about the coronavirus …

Senate panel demands testimony from ex-Obama officials in revived Biden probe  —  A Senate committee is re-engaging former Obama administration officials as part of an investigation targeting Joe Biden's son, demanding transcribed interviews and documents for the Republican-led probe.

Feds Point to Daily Caller Writer as Part of Abramoff Payola Scheme  —  Derek Hunter says he wasn't paid by the disgraced lobbyist to plug his bitcoin project.  But the SEC cites his article, among others, in their complaint.  —  When federal prosecutors charged Jack Abramoff on Thursday …

Working for Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropy isn't always easy since it means working for Mark Zuckerberg  —  Inside the unrest at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.  —  At an emotional company town hall last week that blew past its hour-long time limit, one of Mark Zuckerberg's engineers asked him to quit as CEO of Facebook.

The DOJ Decided Not to Prosecute Trump.  It's Hiding the Reason Why.  —  The Department of Justice has confirmed the existence of a memo laying out its rationale for not bringing charges against President Trump, but it refuses to make its reasoning public.  In response to ongoing litigation involving …

Overlooked No More: Valerie Solanas, Radical Feminist Who Shot Andy Warhol  —  She made daring arguments in “SCUM Manifesto,” her case for a world without men.  But her legacy as a writer and thinker was overshadowed by one violent act. … On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas walked into Andy Warhol's studio …

Wrongly arrested Black man sues a Georgia city and police officers for excessive force and injury  —  Wrongly arrested Black man sues police and Georgia city  —  (CNN)A Black man who was slammed to the ground as he was wrongly arrested is suing the Georgia city of Valdosta …