Senate President Ron Kouchi sent out a memo Saturday informing Senate members of the new case, which he said posed little risk of spreading the virus. Read more
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have strikingly divergent tactics on social media. Read more
The amendment would simplify elections for governor and other statewide officials by erasing an Electoral College-type provision from Mississippi’s 1890 constitution — one that was written to dilute Black voting power and maintain white control of state politics. Read more
North Korea reiterated it has no immediate plans to resume nuclear negotiations with the United States unless Washington discards what it describes as “hostile” policies toward Pyongyang. Read more
Intelligence alleging that Afghan militants might have accepted Russian bounties for killing American troops didn’t scuttle the U.S.-Taliban agreement or President Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw thousands more troops from the war. Read more
As Texas began mandating face coverings today on the orders of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, his party charged ahead with plans for a massive convention this month in Houston, magnifying the conflicting responses in the Texas GOP to a rampant resurgence of the coronavirus. Read more
The president dug further into American divisions Friday, offering a discordant tone to an electorate battered by a pandemic and wounded by racial injustice following the high-profile killings of Black people. Read more
The Utah LGBTQ rights group Equality Utah agreed his sexuality was a deciding factor in the race. Read more
Vice President Mike Pence postponed a planned trip this week to Arizona after Secret Service agents set to travel with him tested positive for the coronavirus or showed symptoms, two administration officials said Thursday. Pence had been scheduled to visit Arizona on Tuesday, but multiple factors related to the spread of the virus foiled those plans, according to a person familiar with Pence’s travel. Read more
President Donald Trump will begin his Independence Day weekend on Friday with a patriotic display of fireworks at Mount Rushmore before a crowd of thousands, but even in a part of the country where many remain supportive of the president, the event has drawn controversy and protests. Read more
As Republicans and Democrats fought to spin this month’s jobs numbers to their advantage, both sides face tremendous political risks in navigating a delicate and defining issue heading into the presidential campaign’s final months. Read more
Interim state Tax Director Rona Suzuki asked Gov. David Ige to withdraw her name from consideration after learning the Senate Ways and Means Committee planned to recommend against confirming her for the permanent post. Read more
CNN’s weekday prime-time audience of 1.95 million was up 120% over the same period last year, Nielsen said. Read more
Illinois U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth quietly has been writing an autobiography, her personal story of going from selling flowers on a Hawaii roadside amid poverty and losing both legs in a combat helicopter crash in Iraq to an improbable rise in national politics. Read more
Democrats hailed the House bill, which goes far beyond transportation to fund schools, health care facilities, public utilities and affordable housing. Read more
The one thing Trump and his top officials have not done is to address the substance of intelligence reports that Russia paid bounties to Taliban-affiliated fighters to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan. Read more
The group, 43 Alumni for Biden, has recruited at least 200 former White House officials, campaign aides and Cabinet secretaries who worked under Bush to join the push against the Republican incumbent. Read more
They didn’t like it when then-candidate Donald Trump criticized John McCain for being captured in combat. They were angrier when Trump, as commander in chief, abandoned Kurdish allies in the Middle East. Read more
The revelations cast new doubt on the White House’s efforts to distance Trump from the Russian intelligence assessments. Read more
The city of Jacksonville, Florida, where mask-averse President Donald Trump plans to accept the Republican nomination in August, ordered the wearing of face coverings today. Read more
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