Second Michigan poll shows Trump even farther behind, with Biden leading by 16 points  —  The damage done to President Donald Trump's standing in Michigan following recent protests outside the White House and in cities across the U.S. may have been even greater than originally believed …

President Obama Paved the Way for This Week's LGBTQ Rights Victory at the Supreme Court  —  It underscores the stakes in the 2020 election  —  was spectacular seeing conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch hand a stunning victory on Monday to the LGBTQ community.

Prosecutor in Roger Stone Case Will Testify About Barr's Intervention  —  The prosecutor is one of two Justice Department officials coming forward whom Democrats are calling whistle-blowers.  —  WASHINGTON — Two Justice Department officials have agreed to testify under subpoena …

Police detain armed militia members after man is shot at Albuquerque protest  —  Protesters in Albuquerque wrapped a chain around the neck of a bronze statue and began tugging, chanting “Tear it down,” shortly before sunset on Monday.  Their efforts to pull down a monument …

Coronavirus Live Updates: Pence Tells Governors to Repeat Misleading Claim on Outbreaks  —  Cash-starved states are forced to make massive job cuts.  Reopenings for some restaurants and bars are short-lived amid new infections.  —  RIGHT NOW The virus is racing across Africa …

Woman, 15 friends test positive for coronavirus after night out at Lynch's  —  40-year-old health care worker says she regrets not taking precautions  —  JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. - Erika Crisp has been short of breath for several days and has tested positive for COVID-19.  —  So have more than a dozen of her friends.

Trump offers full-throated defense of police in executive action signing  —  Trump considers executive order on police reform  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump takes his first concrete steps on Tuesday to address growing national outcry over police brutality when he signs an executive order creating …

Elite CIA unit that developed hacking tools failed to secure its own systems, allowing massive leak, an internal report found  —  The theft of top-secret computer hacking tools from the CIA in 2016 was the result of a workplace culture in which the agency's elite computer hackers …

Tucker Carlson Freaks Out Over Right-Wing Poll Showing BLM Is More Popular Than Trump  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who's been railing against the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in recent days amid nationwide protests against racist police brutality, had a bad night on Monday.

Members of Congress took small-business loans — and the full extent is unknown  —  At least four members of Congress have reaped benefits in some way from the half-trillion-dollar small-business loan program they helped create.  —  And no one knows how many more there could be.

Elizabeth Warren to endorse progressive challenger Jamaal Bowman in primary against NY Rep. Eliot Engel  —  (CNN)Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren plans to endorse Jamaal Bowman on Tuesday, throwing her support in a closely watched Democratic primary race behind a middle school principal …

Flushing the Toilet May Fling Coronavirus Aerosols All Over  —  A new study shows how turbulence from a toilet bowl can create a large plume that is potentially infectious to a bathroom's next visitor.  —  Here's one more behavior to be hyper-aware of in order to prevent coronavirus transmission: what you do after you use the toilet.

Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug  —  A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.  —  The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.

Poll: Americans are the unhappiest they've been in 50 years  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Spoiler alert: 2020 has been rough on the American psyche.  Folks in the U.S. are more unhappy today than they've been in nearly 50 years.  —  This bold — yet unsurprising …

Hoyer sets June 26 date for historic House vote on D.C. statehood bill  —  House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) has chosen June 26 to hold the first floor vote in a generation on D.C. statehood, hoping to harness a national reckoning on race and capitalize on widespread outrage …

Fauci said US government held off promoting face masks because it knew shortages were so bad that even doctors couldn't get enough  —  Foto: Carlos Barria/Reuters National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci in April 2020.

There Isn't a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’  —  With testing, treatments and vaccine trials ramping up, we are far better off than the media report.  —  In recent days, the media has taken to sounding the alarm bells over a “second wave” of coronavirus infections.  Such panic is overblown.

Coronavirus Deaths in U.S. Nursing, Long-Term-Care Facilities Top 50,000  —  A WSJ analysis shows more than 250,000 infection cases among residents and staffers at long-term-care facilities  —  The U.S. death toll from Covid-19 in nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities has topped 50,000 …

Santa Cruz deputy's alleged killer charged with assassinating federal cop in Oakland ambush; authorities link attacks to extremist group that believes civil war looming  —  Steven Carrillo was an active duty sergeant in the U.S. Air Force  —  OAKLAND — Steven Carrillo …

McConnell vows to stay on as GOP leader even if Republicans lose Senate  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he planned to stay on as Republican leader regardless of whether he's relegated to the minority or keeps control of the Senate.

The Russian Disinfo Operation You Never Heard About  —  The campaign known as Secondary Infektion appears to be a distinct effort from the meddling of the IRA and GRU—and it went undetected for years.  —  The Internet Research Agency is infamous for flooding mainstream social media platforms with compelling disinformation campaigns.

Did elite David Boies law firm get a pandemic bailout?  It's a secret  —  (Reuters) - When the U.S. government announced a multibillion-dollar bailout of struggling small businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic, one of the top U.S. law firms sensed an opportunity.

Federal Judge Lambasts Amendment to Rename Confederate Bases as “Madness,” Gets Thoroughly Bodied By Clerk  —  The battle over renaming U.S. bases that currently honor Confederate officers broke out in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., on Monday.

Upcoming rallies show that Trump and his supporters have moved on from coronavirus  —  WASHINGTON — One of the greatest tricks President Trump has pulled is convincing his base — and some others — that the coronavirus no longer exists.  —  Or rather, that it's safe to return to exactly …

No foul play found after NYPD cops get sick from Shake Shack shake  —  The New York Police Department found no criminality after officers became sick Monday night from shakes they got at a Shake Shack in downtown Manhattan, Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison tweeted early Tuesday.