Atlanta Police Fatally Shoot Black Man in the Back at Wendy's, New Video to Be Released  —  1:14 PM PT — The head of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation just said his dept. will release the Wendy's surveillance video later Saturday.  He acknowledges Brooks was shot while fleeing the officers with taser in hand.

Jonathan Turley rips Cornell Law faculty letter against me: “It is the antipathy of the intellectual foundations for higher education”  —  “There is an enforced orthodoxy that is captured in the Cornell letter.  These letters are successful in creating a chilling effect on academics who are intimidated by these threats.”

St. Pete bars the Galley, Park & Rec and the Avenue Eat + Drink close after employees test positive for COVID-19  —  Management at all three say they won't reopen until all employees have been tested for the coronavirus.  —  ST. PETERSBURG — Three downtown bars within a couple of blocks …

Graduating West Point Cadets Isolate for Two Weeks Ahead of Trump Speech  —  The address comes as the coronavirus spreads — and during a breakdown in relations between the president and the nation's top military leaders.  —  WASHINGTON — The graduating cadets at the United States Military Academy …

'To Say That She's An Abusive Figure Is An Understatement': At ABC News, Toxicity Thrives  —  Sources say Barbara Fedida, a powerful ABC News executive, has an extensive history of insensitive comments.  She's now been placed on administrative leave while the network investigates.

Joe Biden is winning female voters by a historic margin  —  CNN poll: Trump sees big drop in approval rating  —  (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in the polls for a lot of different reasons.  One large one is his support from female voters.

Fox News removes manipulated images from coverage of Seattle protests  —  Fox News on Friday removed manipulated images that had appeared on its website as part of the conservative outlet's coverage of protests over the killing of George Floyd, which have occasioned peaceful assemblies …

How Melania Trump blocked Ivanka Trump from encroaching on her domain  —  Melania Trump did not even like to be called by her new title at first.  —  “She said, ‘Stop calling me first lady,’ ” recalled one of the people who worked with Melania after the election.

Oakdale, Minn.  —  Before this moment of America's reckoning with race, the warm spring air was already charged.  —  A killer virus had ripped through black communities.  Bullets, too.  —  Ahmaud Arbery.  Breonna Taylor.  And then the death of a black man after an encounter with a white police officer …

Biden's Vice-Presidential Search: Who's on the List and Where It Stands  —  The search committee is conducting interviews and seeking private documents, and prospects like Val Demings and Keisha Lance Bottoms are getting a closer look as political currents influence the search.

From ‘beautiful letters’ to ‘a dark nightmare’: How Trump's North Korea gamble went bust  —  WASHINGTON — North Korea officially declared an end Friday to its diplomatic dalliance with the U.S. But experts say it's been clear for some time that President Donald Trump's bold but risky effort …

Tight polls put GOP on edge in Texas  —  AUSTIN — Texas Republicans are on edge as polls show President Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden running neck and neck in the Lone Star State with less than five months to go before Election Day.  —  Most GOP operatives …

Activists cite tabulation flaw in mail-in ballots in Georgia  —  Faulty software or poorly calibrated vote-tabulation scanners used to count mailed-in ballots in this week's chaotic Georgia primary may have prevented thousands of votes from being counted, election officials and voting integrity activists say.

Mississippi faces reckoning on Confederate emblem in flag  —  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The young activists who launched a protest movement after George Floyd's death are bringing fresh energy to a long-simmering debate about the Confederate battle emblem that white supremacists embedded within …

Joyce Kenner leads Whitney Young, but after George Floyd's killing she faces calls to resign: 'If I don't understand about black people and oppression, nobody else does.'  —  After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, an 11-year-old Joyce Kenner witnessed people take to the streets …

Three indicted for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at NYPD vehicles, face life in prison  —  An upstate woman and two Brooklyn lawyers were indicted Friday on federal explosives and arson charges for allegedly tossing Molotov cocktails at NYPD vehicles during George Floyd protests in New York City.

QAnon marches toward the halls of Congress  —  For the last three years, the amorphous QAnon conspiracy movement has seeped into the fringes of President Donald Trump's internet world, with supporters even popping up at the president's rallies.  —  But QAnon adherents are now filtering into electoral politics.

Howard Stern under fire for past use of blackface, skit with N-word  —  Howard Stern has become the latest in a long list of celebrities and power players to be forced to confront their use of blackface.  —  On Thursday a video appeared online showing Stern in minstrel-style makeup, liberally using the N-word.

Protests in Trump country test his hold in rural white areas  —  In the lake country 200 miles (320 kilometers) northwest of Detroit, hundreds danced, prayed and demanded racial justice in Cadillac, a Michigan town that was long home to a neo-Nazi group.  —  It was not an isolated scene.

NBC anchor asks Tim Scott to say whether he's a ‘token’  —  Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is the only black Republican senator.  —  He is also the only member of Congress's upper chamber who is subjected regularly to the racist allegation that he is a “token.”

These lifelong Republicans may vote for Biden come November  —  Carefree, Arizona (CNN)In this bedroom community north of Phoenix, two gray-haired white residents stand silently at a dusty intersection, holding up homemade signs in the blistering 100-plus-degree heat.

‘We were terrified and confused’: The curious case of the colorful school bus  —  Joel Oliphint Associate Editor, Columbus Alive @joeloliphint  —  A group of hippie circus performers on a converted bus named Buttercup were briefly detained by a SWAT team at a Downtown protest.

NOPD strips sergeant of power, investigating social media posts about protesters  —  His alleged social media comments were posted as the U.S. wrestles with institutional racism in law enforcement forces across the country.  —  NEW ORLEANS — An NOPD Sergeant was decommissioned and suspended Friday …

Through a network of monasteries and churches, Otilia Levi helped Jews hide from Nazis during WWII  —  Otilia Levi's life was defined by her courage.  —  Born Otilia Vainer in Galatz, Romania, in 1923, she was the daughter of a Jewish merchant.  The family of four fled the country in 1941 …

BREAKING: Gaetz Introducing Bill Requiring US Soccer to Stand for Anthem or Face Financial Repercussions  —  Congressman Gaetz revealed on his podcast “Hot Takes with Matt Gaetz” today that he is drafting legislation compelling US Soccer to reverse the decision they made repealing Policy 604-1 …

Trump changes date of Tulsa rally scheduled for Juneteenth  —  President Donald Trump late Friday announced he will no longer hold a comeback campaign rally on Juneteenth, saying he'll push the event back one day out of respect for the date that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.