South Dakota governor sending National Guard to Mexico border on mission funded by GOP megadonor  —  South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) will deploy up to 50 National Guard troops to the southern U.S. border, her office said Tuesday, with a highly unusual caveat — the mission will be funded by a …

Fox News doesn't believe Tucker Carlson  —  In January 2013, the New York Times disclosed that its computer systems had been infiltrated by Chinese hackers.  Before issuing its report, the Times worked with AT&T, hired a computer security firm and took other precautions.  That process took several months.

New York Mayor's Race in Chaos After Elections Board Counts 135,000 Test Ballots  —  The extraordinary sequence of events threw the closely watched Democratic primary contest into a new period of uncertainty and seeded further confusion about the outcome.  —  The New York City mayor's race plunged …

Supreme Court allows eviction ban to remain in place  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled to keep the federal eviction moratorium to in place, in a 5-4 decision in which Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined with liberals.  —  The decision is a blow …

Trump: Herschel Walker will run for Senate in Georgia  —  Former President Donald Trump said Georgia Bulldog football great Herschel Walker told him he was going to run for U.S. Senate, a decision that would make him the front-runner in the chaotic race against Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock.

Josh Mandel's staff quit campaign because of toxic work environment created by staffer in relationship with Mandel, sources say  —  Laura A. Bischoff Haley BeMillerThe Columbus Dispatch  —  At least two of the three fundraisers who quit Josh Mandel's U.S. Senate campaign in recent months …

Infrastructure and McConnell's Theory of Midterm Politics  —  Mitch McConnell is more afraid of a big, party line bill than a smaller, bipartisan one, Democrats should take heed  —  Mitch McConnell is the physical embodiment of everything people hate about politics — self-interested, cynical, corrupt, and dishonest.

No. 3 House Democrat Steps Into Ohio Race to Head Off a Sanders Acolyte  —  The decision by Representative James Clyburn to oppose an outspoken ally of Senator Bernie Sanders in a special election in Cleveland highlights the generational and ideological gulf in the Democratic Party.

Video, images and interviews deepen questions about role of pool deck in condo collapse  —  Your browser does not support the video element.  —  A Washington Post examination of video and images from the deadly collapse of a high-rise apartment building outside Miami …

Stop Gaslighting Parents on Critical Race Theory  —  Proponents of Critical Race Theory are resorting to semantic gaslighting to defend a dogma that most Americans instinctively abhor.  —  Some pundits claim that CRT is exclusively a school of thought taught in legal academia.

Trump rally in Mobile's Battleship Park cancelled amid concerns of ‘partisan political event’: Report  —  Plans for former President Donald Trump to return July 4th weekend to the city many credited with lending legitimacy to his 2016 campaign after USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park commissioners reportedly …

Dems fret that GOP could tap pro-Trump chaos agents for Jan. 6 probe  —  The House is set to vote Wednesday to create a select committee on the Capitol attack, but Republicans might choose firebrand conservatives to undercut the effort.  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, seen …

Trump legal team expects charges against company in coming days  —  Washington — Ronald Fischetti, a lawyer representing former President Trump in his stand-off with New York prosecutors, expects the Manhattan District Attorney's Office to bring criminal charges against Mr. Trump's company …

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Beyond Tulsa, Overlooked Race Massacres Draw New Focus  —  Efforts to teach the histories are gaining momentum even as some states try to limit how racism is discussed in schools.  —  The Elaine massacre of 1919 is believed to be the deadliest episode of racial violence in Arkansas history.

US should back a new approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict  —  This is not a dispute between equals that can be resolved through bilateral negotiations  —  The writer is a former secretary-general of the UN and deputy chair of The Elders  —  It is time to acknowledge …