Houston fire and police respond to reports of documents being burned at Consulate General of China  —  HOUSTON - Houston police and fire officials responded to reports that documents were being burned in the courtyard of the Consulate General of China in Houston Tuesday night, according to the Houston Police Department.

Trump's Request of an Ambassador: Get the British Open for Me  —  Woody Johnson, the N.F.L. owner, Trump donor and ambassador to Britain, was warned not to get involved in trying to move the tournament to a Trump resort in Scotland, but he raised the idea anyway — and he failed.

A new Trump campaign ad depicting a police officer being attacked by protesters is actually a 2014 photo of pro-democracy protests in Ukraine  —  Foto: This image of protesters and police in Ukraine, from 2014, has been used by the Trump 2020 US election campaign.

Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown  —  Twitter announced Tuesday that it has begun taking sweeping actions to limit the reach of QAnon content, banning many of the conspiracy theory's followers because of problems with harassment and misinformation.

‘What choice do we have?’:  Portland's ‘Wall of Moms’ faces off with federal officers at tense protests  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — A thick wall of tear gas crept closer to the wall of moms in yellow shirts chanting, “Don't shoot your mother,” as they faced off with federal agents during another night of nonstop protests.

Matt Gaetz appears to run afoul of House ethics rules  —  Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has privately engaged in several spending practices in his nearly four years in office that appear to be in conflict with the House's ethics rules, a POLITICO investigation has found.

Biden campaign goes on offensive against Sen. Ron Johnson's Burisma probe  —  Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Tuesday launched a highly personal broadside at Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, for pushing forward …

Why Is the Left Angry at Republicans Working to Elect Joe Biden?  —  Conservatives are always looking for converts, the old saying goes, while liberals are always looking for heretics.  This would explain why so many of each are so angry right now.  Joe Biden's campaign has attracted …

Three brothers are behind a series of viral videos trolling Trump  —  (CNN)A little known Democratic group called MeidasTouch posted a video on Twitter less than two weeks ago that began with Kellyanne Conway, President Donald Trump's longtime aide, lashing out at presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

I Spoke to Anthony Fauci.  He Says His Inbox Isn't Pretty.  —  An interview with the man who has an important message for you, if he can get it out.  —  Americans may have lost faith in their most cherished institutions — the presidency, Congress, the media, perhaps even democracy itself …

Past D.C. Bar Association chiefs call for probe of William Barr  —  Four former presidents of the D.C. Bar Association have signed a letter calling on the group to investigate whether Attorney General William Barr has violated its rules.  The District of Columbia Bar authorizes lawyers …

If Congress Cuts Jobless Benefits, ‘It Would Be a Disaster’  —  Six unemployed Americans on what losing $600 a week would mean to them.  —  When I called Mary Proffitt at her home in Lexington, Ky., last week, the 63-year-old lifelong Kentuckian picked up the phone and rap was blaring in the background.

Biden, leading Trump by eight points, also has a big advantage with undecided voters: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic candidate Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by 8 percentage points in support among registered voters, and the former vice president appears …

How Voter-Fraud Hysteria and Partisan Bickering Ate American Election Oversight  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  On March 20, state election administrators got on a conference call …

Americans tune in to ‘cancel culture’ — and don't like what they see  —  One of the few things that Barack Obama and Donald Trump agree on is cancel culture.  —  In the last year, as numerous public figures have become the targets of online campaigns by social media swarms …

“Disturbing And Demoralizing”: DHS Employees Are Worried The Portland Protest Response Is Destroying Their Agency's Reputation  —  The Department of Homeland Security's response to anti-police brutality protests in Portland, Oregon, has disturbed and angered many employees …

The Bizarre Fall of the CEO of Coach and Kate Spade's Parent Company  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  When I asked Jide Zeitlin late last year about a 10-year-old article accusing him of using …

Ex-Google Engineer Says Glitch Blocking Websites Including Drudge, Breitbart Could Have Revealed a Mysterious List  —  A Tuesday incident in which certain websites briefly vanished from Google search results may have inadvertently exposed an internal list aimed at suppressing certain news outlets, a former engineer for the company said.

The November Election Is Going to Be a Mess  —  American voters face a nightmare in November.  The recent stretch of primary elections has raised a slew of red flags of glitches, missteps, incompetence, and worse that could plague the national elections in November.

Elizabeth Warren's new role: Key Joe Biden policy adviser  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden accused Elizabeth Warren last year of holding an “angry, unyielding viewpoint.”  She embraced that label and slammed Biden as “naive” for thinking he could work with Republicans as president.

Silent spread of virus keeps scientists grasping for clues  —  One of the great mysteries of the coronavirus is how quickly it rocketed around the world.  —  It first flared in central China and, within three months, was on every continent but Antarctica, shutting down daily life for millions.

Biden and Obama to talk Trump in new campaign video  —  Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama sat down in-person to discuss systemic racism, the coronavirus pandemic and President Trump's handling of those issues for a new campaign video that will be released Thursday.

Founder of Never-Trump Super PAC Arrested in $60M Bribery Scheme  —  The founder of a prominent political action committee opposing President Donald Trump's reelection was arrested on Tuesday in part of a public corruption probe.  —  Matthew Borges, a lobbyist and former chairman …

Trump's Remedy for Low Poll Numbers: Reminding People Polls Can Be Wrong  —  And if surveys of likely voters don't look promising, turn to other measures.  Like boat parades.  —  WASHINGTON — “I'm not losing,” President Trump insisted in an interview on Sunday with the Fox News anchor Chris Wallace …

U.S. agrees to pay Pfizer and BioNTech $2 billion for 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine  — The United States will pay $1.95 billion for Pfizer to produce and deliver 100 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate in the U.S. if it proves safe and effective in humans, the government announced Wednesday.

The states at the center of the 2020 voting crisis  —  Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Georgia are the battlefronts for voting rights advocates and election lawyers in a year one national expert says could make Bush v. Gore look like “a walk in the park.”

Facebook gets in a Twitter tangle  —  What news should people see when they come to Facebook?  —  In the old days, your answer might have been “whatever they want to see,” or even “who cares?”  But as Facebook's dominance grew, and it became one of the most important arbiters of attention in the world …

A Taxonomy of Fear  —  There is a pattern in the way speech is silenced.  Understanding it can help us stand up to the illiberalism of this moment.  —  4 hr  —  We live in a time of personal timorousness and collective mercilessness.  —  There might seem to be a contradiction between …