From dream job to nightmare … A few months after Emily Applegate started working for the Washington Redskins in 2014, she settled into a daily routine: She would meet a female co-worker in the bathroom during their lunch breaks, she said, to commiserate and cry about the frequent sexual harassment and verbal abuse they endured.

Exclusive: White House document shows 18 states in coronavirus “red zone”  —  Unpublicized recommendations say states should return to stringent control measures … A document prepared for the White House Coronavirus Task Force but not publicized suggests more than a dozen states should revert …

Legendary Foreign Correspondent Chris Dickey Dies in Paris  —  ICON  —  Chris Dickey hopscotched across the globe to land stories—and mentored a generation of journalists in how to do the same.  —  The hardest thing about writing an obituary for Chris Dickey, the legendary foreign correspondent …

Game show host retweeted by Trump deletes his account after announcing his son has coronavirus  —  Former game show host Chuck Woolery announced Wednesday his son has tested positive for COVID-19, just days after accusing medical professionals and Democrats of lying about the virus in an effort …

Republicans fear campaign shake-up can't counteract Trump's self-sabotage  —  A sudden shake-up of President Trump's campaign was an attempt to refocus a reelection effort cratering under the weight of a deadly pandemic, a stalled economy and a national reckoning on racial injustice.

BREAKING: Kemp's office seeks to block Atlanta mask mandate in court  —  Gov. Brian Kemp's administration went to court Thursday seeking to block Atlanta from enacting coronavirus restrictions and requiring residents to wear masks, setting up a legal showdown between the state and local governments …

Mary Trump's memoir sells 950,000 on first day, setting a record for publisher  —  Looks like a lot of people want to read about the president's psychological back story.  “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man” by Mary L. Trump has set …

The Plot Against America: The GOP's Plan to Suppress the Vote and Sabotage the Election  —  Blocking ballots, intimidating voters, spreading misinformation — undermining democracy is at the heart of Trump's 2020 campaign  —  In June, President Trump sat in the Oval Office …

Coronavirus data has already disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC  — Since the pandemic began, the CDC has regularly published data on availability of hospital beds and intensive care units across the country.  — But Ryan Panchadsaram, who helps run …

The true story of the heartthrob prince of Qatar and his time at USC  —  When a Qatari sheikh came to live in L.A., an entire economy sprouted to meet his wishes.  “His highness doesn't like to hear no,” one associate told a professor.  —  5 AM  —  Los Angeles has long enjoyed a reputation …

In separate rallies, Utahns protest mask mandate and demand in-person classes  —  • As she walked up to the podium to speak, one of the moms grabbed a face mask and spit her gum out into it.  “It's garbage,” she shrugged, wadding it up.  “It doesn't work anyway.  Not for me and not for my kids.”

After Twitter breach, lawmakers and experts concerned private messages were accessed  —  A day after a widespread security breach hit the Twitter accounts of high-profile public figures, including Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos and Joe Biden, lawmakers and cybersecurity experts are worried …

Trump's Losing, So When Are Republican Candidates Going to Abandon Him?  —  On Wednesday afternoon, the latest batch of polls in the Presidential campaign were released, and they showed an increasingly grim picture for Donald Trump.  The NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey had Joe Biden up by eleven points.

The Supreme Court Just Stopped 1 Million Floridians From Voting in November  —  The Supreme Court all but guaranteed that nearly one million Floridians will be unable to vote in the 2020 election because of unpaid court debts in a shattering order handed down on Thursday.

Kayleigh McEnany tries to clean up Trump's comment about police killing ‘more white people’  —  Earlier this week, President Trump shrugged off questions about police killing black people by claiming that they killed more white people.  This is technically true, but also wholly misleading given …

Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets  —  UPDATE (5:14 p.m. PT) — In the early hours of July 15, after a night spent protesting at the Multnomah County Justice Center and Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse, Mark Pettibone and his friend Conner O'Shea decided to head home.

Pompeo slams ‘rioters pulling down statues’ for ‘assault’ on tradition  —  The secretary's new report on “unalienable rights” seeks to narrow their scope.  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unveiled a new report on “unalienable rights” Thursday, defining human rights in a narrow scope …

Coronavirus cases shut down Florida's emergency operations center  —  The coronavirus thrashing Florida has penetrated the state's emergency operations center, a clearinghouse for disaster-related information and a command center of sorts for the pandemic response.

Scaramucci Says He Wants to See Trump ‘Humiliated’  — Former Trump communications chief seeks GOP votes for Democrat  — Trump politicized coronavirus pandemic, Scaramucci says  —  Merely beating Donald Trump in November won't be enough for Anthony Scaramucci …

Trumpism Corrupts: Wall Street Journal Edition  —  When people show you who they are, you should believe them.  —  The Wall Street Journal ran a strikingly oblique editorial on Thursday morning.  I'm going to quote from it extensively and bold the phrases that are most interesting:

Growing Wait Times for Covid-19 Test Results Hinder Virus Response  —  Shortages and late results delay public-health officials' view of virus's spread and their ability to respond effectively  —  Over the past week, nearly two dozen states have reported fresh highs in coronavirus cases.

U.S. Party Preferences Have Swung Sharply Toward Democrats  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since January, Americans' party preferences have shifted dramatically in the Democratic Party's direction.  What had been a two-percentage-point Republican advantage in U.S. party identification and leaning …

MSNBC's Mimi Rocah unseats Anthony Scarpino in Westchester County D.A. primary  —  Former federal prosecutor and MSNBC legal analyst Mimi Rocah has won the Democratic primary for Westchester County district attorney.  —  Incumbent Anthony Scarpino conceded the race Thursday …

785 Michigan restaurants got $150K or more in federal loans.  Only 1 listed as Black-owned.  —  Of the 785 Michigan restaurants approved for more than $150,000 each in Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP) loans, only one self-identified as Black-owned, according to a Free Press analysis of government data.

Trump Campaign Legal Adviser Appears on Kremlin-Backed TV  —  No Trump official had appeared on the network since 2016, in part because U.S. Intel determined it was a propaganda outlet.  —  A top Trump campaign adviser recently appeared on the Russian-government funded TV network RT …

Senate Republicans eye subpoenas of Biden advisers in Burisma probe  —  A Senate committee is eyeing subpoenas for current and former advisers to Joe Biden as part of an investigation into the former vice president's son, an escalation of GOP scrutiny of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his family.

In the Same Towns, Private Schools Are Reopening While Public Schools Are Not  —  Private schools have always had more flexibility, and usually more money, but never has that disparity made a bigger difference than now.  —  In Honolulu, nearly all public schools are planning to allow students to return for just part of the week.