Trump's New Favorite COVID Doctor Believes in Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and Hydroxychloroquine  —  A Houston doctor who praises hydroxychloroquine and says that face masks aren't necessary to stop transmission of the highly contagious coronavirus has become a star on the right-wing internet …

Police: ‘Umbrella Man’ was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting  —  Police say the suspect has been identified, but no charges had been filed as of Tuesday afternoon.  —  TEXT SIZE  —  A masked man who was seen in a viral video smashing the windows …

Republican senator deletes ad that made Jewish opponent's nose bigger  —  Sen. David Perdue of Georgia deleted a Facebook ad targeting his Jewish election opponent, Jon Ossoff, that appeared to have been altered to make Ossoff's nose bigger.  —  The ad called for donations to Perdue …

“He's Lying.”  New Book Reveals Havoc Bill Barr Wrought Inside Congress  —  On Tuesday morning, when Attorney General William Barr finally appears before the House Judiciary Committee, a book will be released covering one of Barr's most controversial and most consequential actions to date …

Lawsuit alleges Trump campaign, fundraising committee shielded millions in payments  —  A legal complaint filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission alleges that the Trump campaign and an affiliated fundraising committee have not properly reported nearly $170 million in campaign spending …

Three Tests for the Future of the Republican Party  —  The least we can expect from a responsible political party and political movement.  —  Life is a learning experience.  Even the three months before a presidential election.  So it might make sense to ask a question:

Trump administration to resume processing DACA renewals  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will begin allowing so-called “Dreamer” immigrants to renew their permits to remain and work in the U.S. for a year while it reviews a Supreme Court ruling and the underlying legality …

Extensive New Battleground Polling Shows Biden Gaining Ground  —  Biden has put Republican strongholds in play while extending his lead in several swing states  —  President Donald Trump faces an increasingly daunting electoral map according to new battleground state polling from Morning Consult Political Intelligence.

After Quitting Deadspin in Protest, They're Starting a New Site  —  The journalists who took part in a staff rebellion last year are starting Defector Media, a company with a podcast and a website dedicated to sports and culture.  —  One of the biggest staff rebellions in online media took place last year …

Sarah Palin's Facebook grift  —  Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican nominee for Vice President, is not the cultural icon she was a decade ago.  In March, she appeared on “The Masked Singer,” where she sang “Baby Got Back” dressed in a pink bear costume.  So how is Palin making ends meet?

Google's Top Search Result?  —  The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page  —  In Google's early years, users would type in a query and get back a page of 10 “blue links” that led to different websites.

Have You Been ‘Wokefished’ While Dating?  Here's How to Tell  —  If a dude describes himself on Hinge as a “feminist”, pay close attention to how he actually treats women.  —  SS  —  When I was about 17, I decided to go vegan (I was trying a lot of things at the time …

Maya Wiley Is Leaving MSNBC to Weigh Run for N.Y.C. Mayor  —  Ms. Wiley, who once led the city's police oversight board, would enter a mayoral race that has been reshaped by Black Lives Matter protests.  —  Maya D. Wiley, a former top counsel for Mayor Bill de Blasio, is leaving her role …

AFT threatens ‘safety strikes’ in school reopening talks  —  The American Federation of Teachers adopted a resolution denouncing “unsafe and unsound plans” or “the faulty implementation of plans.”  —  Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers president, speaks during a news conference.

Jaime Harrison is chasing Lindsey Graham like a cheetah running down an impala  —  In American politics, some candidates give their opponents a real run for their money.  And then there are those candidates who lay chase like a cheetah running down an impala on the Serengeti.

Revealed: A Former FBI Director's Double Game With Stolen Russian Money  —  Louis Freeh has been hired to investigate stolen Russian cash.  But he repped one of the alleged money launderers in another case—alongside Russia's Trump Tower meeting lawyer.  —  This investigation was conducted jointly …

Democrats Reject Marijuana Legalization In Party Platform  —  The document supports decriminalization but stops short of full legalization.  —  Democratic National Committee delegates voted 105-60 against including marijuana legalization in the party platform on Monday.

Ex-FBI agent Strzok due out with book about Trump, Russia  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, who played a key role in the Russia investigation but whose pejorative text messages about Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign made him a target of the president's wrath …

Racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious.  That's no coincidence.  —  Over the last several weeks, the United States has engaged in a long-overdue reckoning with the racist symbols of the past, tearing down monuments to figures complicit in slavery and removing Confederate flags from public displays.

The Republicans Have Written a Pro-Virus Bill … America's response to the coronavirus crisis has been a failure in large part thanks to our national impatience.  We allowed businesses to reopen and nudged people back to work before successfully containing the disease …

Cuomo offers every MLB team a home in New York  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo is offering every Major League Baseball team a temporary home in New York.  —  “New York state could host any Major League Baseball game that any teams want to play and they could play those games in our stadiums,” the governor said in a briefing on Tuesday.

Department of Homeland Security Will Reject Initial Requests for DACA As It Weighs Future of the Program  —  Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad F. Wolf announced that in response to the Supreme Court's decision, the Department of Homeland Security will take action to thoughtfully consider …