Kanye West Says He's Done With Trump—Opens Up About White House Bid, Damaging Biden And Everything In Between  —  Kanye West's Fourth of July declaration, via Tweet, that he was running for president lit the internet on fire, even as pundits were trying to discern how serious he was.

Trump Pushed CIA to Give Intelligence to Kremlin, While Taking No Action Against Russia Arming Taliban  —  Why would the Russian government think it could get away with paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers?  One answer to that question may be the extraordinary response …

Exclusive: Vindman to retire from military.  His lawyer blames White House ‘campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation’  —  (CNN)Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in President Donald Trump's impeachment inquiry, is retiring from the US Army after more than 21 years …

New July 2020 Electoral College Ratings  —  This election is looking more like a Democratic tsunami than simply a Blue wave.  President Trump, mired in some of the lowest job approval ratings of his presidency, is trailing Biden by significant margins in key battleground states like Pennsylvania …

In win for Trump, Supreme Court allows plan for religious limits to Obamacare contraceptive coverage  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to give the nation's employers more leeway in refusing to provide free birth control for their workers under the Affordable Care Act.

Biden Should Not Debate Trump Unless ...  Here are two conditions the Democrat should set.  —  I worry about Joe Biden debating Donald Trump.  He should do it only under two conditions.  Otherwise, he's giving Trump unfair advantages.  —  First, Biden should declare that he will take part …

Trump threatens to cut funding for schools, slams CDC reopening guidelines as too tough and expensive  — Trump tweets that he may withhold federal funding from schools that do not resume in-person classes this fall.  — Moments later Trump says his own CDC's guidelines for safely reopening schools …

Artists and Writers Warn of an ‘Intolerant Climate.’ Reaction Is Swift.  —  An open letter published by Harper's, signed by luminaries including Margaret Atwood and Wynton Marsalis, argued for openness to “opposing views.”  The debate began immediately.  —  The killing of George Floyd …

US coronavirus mortality rate not lowest in world, despite Trump claim: FACT CHECK  —  The president has made false statements about the virus's mortality rate.  —  President Donald Trump and his White House have repeatedly claimed this week, falsely, that the United States has the lowest novel coronavirus mortality rate in the world.

How United Are Democrats?  A 96-0 Data Point Offers a Hint  —  Polling shows Biden is not facing any serious defections from his left flank.  —  Joe Biden has emerged from a contested Democratic primary with surprising party unity and without any serious threat on his left flank …

Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized last month after injuring his head in a fall  —  Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. suffered a fall at a Maryland country club last month that required an overnight stay in the hospital, a Supreme Court spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday night.

The Inside Story of Why Mary Trump Wrote a Tell-All Memoir  —  President Trump's niece was a family outcast.  Her new book casts a cold light on the relatives she describes as dysfunctional.  —  For most of her life, Mary L. Trump was shunted aside by her own family.

Lara Trump-RNC robocall called mail-in voting safe and secure while President railed against it  —  (CNN)While President Donald Trump has continuously railed against voting by mail, a Republican National Committee robocall in April voiced by his daughter-in-law Lara Trump said voting by mail could be done “safely and securely.”

Tech CEO apologizes for racist tirade against Asian American family caught on video  —  For a few moments after the camera began recording, the white man smirked silently in his seat at an upscale California restaurant.  Then, he gave the family at the next table the middle finger and unleashed an anti-Asian tirade.

Harvard and MIT sue Trump administration over rule barring foreign students from online classes  —  Harvard and MIT on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security to block federal guidance that would largely bar foreign college students from taking classes …

Churches Were Eager to Reopen.  Now They Are a Major Source of Coronavirus Cases.  —  The virus has infiltrated Sunday services, church meetings and youth camps.  More than 650 cases have been linked to reopened religious facilities.  —  PENDLETON, Ore. — Weeks after President Trump demanded …

Mary Kay Letourneau, teacher jailed for raping student she later married, dies at 58  —  Mary Kay Letourneau, the former Seattle-area teacher who married a man she was convicted of raping when he was in sixth grade, has died of cancer, her lawyer said Tuesday.  She was 58.

Partisanship Drives Latest Shift in Race Relations Attitudes  —  Majority hopeful that movement will have a positive impact  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Republicans have turned negative while non-Republicans have held firm in their support of the movement sparked by the death of George Floyd and other incidents involving racial justice.

GOP State Lawmaker Demands Americans ‘STOP GETTING TESTED’ For Coronavirus  —  Nino Vitale railed against wearing masks and ranted about “living in a dictatorship” in a Facebook post.  —  A GOP state lawmaker in Ohio ― one of several states currently seeing a spike …

Robert Redford: This is who gets my vote in 2020  —  Robert Redford is an actor, director, producer and trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council, an advocacy group.  —  The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author.  View more opinion articles on CNN.

Woman Says She Was Fired Because Her Children Disrupted Her Work Calls  —  Drisana Rios of San Diego said in a lawsuit that she lost her job with an insurance brokerage firm after a supervisor complained that her children were being noisy during meetings.  —  A California woman has sued …

The New York Times Dropped Millions On Facebook To Advertise The 1619 Project...While Trying To Bully Facebook Into Censoring Others  —  The New York Times' massive campaign to pressure social media giants into restricting freedom of information — particularly dissemination from sources …

Trump ignores recent calamities in his push to open schools  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's new push to open schools shows he's learned nothing from calamities sparked by his demands for premature state openings.  —  The coronavirus pandemic is again rearing out of control …

Conservative Sites Pull Articles, Twitter Suspends Accounts After Daily Beast Investigation  —  The group of fake accounts planted pro-United Arab Emirates opinion articles in various right-wing publications.  —  A Middle East propaganda network that duped conservative media went dark …

N.Y.C. Schools, Nation's Largest District, Will Not Fully Reopen in Fall  —  Classroom attendance in September will be limited to only one to three days a week in an effort to continue to curb the outbreak, the mayor said.  —  About four months after 1.1 million New York City children …

Trump campaign considers displaying statues at future rallies: Sources  —  The president criticized those calling for removal of controversial monuments.  —  A potential new addition to President Trump's future rallies: statues.  —  The idea has been discussed by White House and Trump campaign aides …

Texas GOP convention will happen in person — but Republican leaders will speak via video  —  As the state has seen a surge in coronavirus cases, calls have been growing over the past week for the party to cancel its Houston event.  —  The Republican Party of Texas is moving forward …

Texas shatters daily record with over 10,000 new coronavirus cases  —  Texas has once again broken its single-day record for new coronavirus cases.  The state reported 10,028 new cases Tuesday as officials warned that hospitals are reaching capacity.  —  The previous daily record was 8,260 new cases on July 4.

District Attorney  —  News Release: Two Martinez Residents Charged with Hate Crime for Defacing Black Lives Matter Mural  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—July 7, 2020  —  Contact: Scott Alonso, 925-957-8630 office  —  Two Martinez Residents Charged with Hate Crime for Defacing Black Lives Matter Mural

Why Conservatism is the Natural Home for Working-Class Americans  —  Rightly understood, it is of, by and for the people.  —  By the telling of the intellectual classes, conservatism is the ideology of the elite, aligned with those who seek to preserve the wealth, status …

'It's egregious': thousands of mail-in ballots could be rejected over small errors  —  Voting rights advocates are worried about a surge in ‘arbitrary’ ballot rejections - over signatures and cutoff dates - this fall  —  The 64-year-old lives in McAllen, near the Texas-Mexico border …