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- June 30th
 - Cosby says his release is 'for all the people who have been imprisoned wrongfully'
 - Following controversy, UNC grants tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones
 - Only 2 GOP representatives voted in favor of Jan. 6 select committee
 - Actress Allison Mack sentenced to 3 years in prison for role in sex cult
 - The 'due process violation' behind the overturned Cosby conviction
 - Donald Rumsfeld, former defense secretary, dies at 88
 - Cosby Show star Phylicia Rashad blasted as 'rape apologist' for celebrating Cosby's impending prison release
 - Cosby accusers speak out against 'injustice' after conviction is overturned: 'He's a serial rapist'
 - The spectator responsible for the Tour de France crash has reportedly turned herself in
 - Historians rank Trump ahead of only 3 other presidents
 - Manhattan D.A. expected to bring first criminal charges against Trump Org on Thursday
 - How China eliminated malaria
 - Texas nonprofit shares bizarre cheat sheet for identifying CRT buzzwords in the classroom
 - Galveston County, 400 miles from the Texas-Mexico border, declares an emergency over 'border crisis'
 - Prosecutors reportedly looking at Trump Organization cash bonuses as possible charges loom
 - House Republicans dipped their toes in the climate crisis just as the Pacific Northwest boiled over
 - Stephen Colbert guesses how House Republicans will try to thwart the Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigation
 - The Daily Show turns the conservative 'culture war' on critical race theory into a Ken Burns–style documentary
 - House votes 285-120 to remove Confederate and pro-slavery statues from the U.S. Capitol
 - Report: Rudy Giuliani facing DOJ inquiry into Turkish lobbying
 - NSA says Tucker Carlson has 'never been an intelligence target'
 - New York elections board says mayoral vote 'discrepancy' was 135,000 extra 'dummy' ballots, starts count over
 - Fox News fined $1 million as part of sexual harassment investigation settlement
 - Confusion sets in after NYC election board releases vote totals in mayoral primary — then admits discrepancy
 - GOP Rep. Paul Gosar claims to know nothing about fundraiser with far-right group
 
- June 29th
 - Family of pitcher Tyler Skaggs sues Angels for negligence in his 2019 death
 - AOC reportedly spent more on security in the months following the Capitol riot than she did 'the entirety of last year'
 - Kevin Federline supports Britney Spears amid conservatorship battle
 - What South Dakota's bizarre National Guard deployment might really be about
 - The Many Saints of Newark trailer gives 1st full glimpse of Michael Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
 - California town reportedly has no running water during heat wave
 - Former maintenance worker says saltwater seeped through collapsed Miami condo's foundation during high tides
 - Biden, with an 'almost pained expression,' describes how presidency has affected marriage to Jill
 - The top NYC mayoral candidates apparently refer to themselves in the 3rd person
 - Why United's big bet on travel is a big risk
 - Elon Musk's 'primary home' is apparently a little box
 - Former South African President Jacob Zuma sentenced to 15 months in prison
 - Biden makes his pitch for the bipartisan infrastructure bill in Yahoo News op-ed
 - Stephen Colbert laughs at Trump fumbling his greatest hits at 1st post-insurrection MAGA rally
 - Arizona's Maricopa County won't use any voting machines confiscated for GOP election 'audit'
 - 70-year-old has the 'thrill of a lifetime' as Yankees' bat girl for a night
 - Before Florida condo collapse, contractor took photos of damage in building's garage
 - Pelosi unveils bill for Jan. 6 Capitol riot panel, may appoint a Republican among 8 Democratic picks
 - Trump Organization lawyers meet with NY prosecutors as Trump defends company's 'standard practice'
 - Ethiopia declares cease-fire in Tigray
 - 'I am not my family': Jamie Lynn Spears breaks her silence around Britney's conservatorship
 - Death toll rises to 11 in Florida condo collapse
 
- June 28th
 - U.S. troops come under fire in Syria day after airstrikes targeted militias
 - Democrats fear Mitch McConnell is stoking infrastructure 'infighting'
 - Major antitrust lawsuits against Facebook dismissed in federal court
 - LeVar Burton: Permanently hosting Jeopardy! is 'what I'm supposed to do'
 - Juul to pay North Carolina $40 million after allegedly targeting young people with e-cigarettes
 - Supreme Court declines to hear bathroom case in victory for transgender student
 - The spectator who caused the Tour de France pileup has reportedly fled the country
 - It's so hot in Portland that transit power cables are melting
 - Study suggests Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines could provide 'years' of protection
 - The future of Star Wars
 - How 100,000 ‘lost children’ disappeared from UK school system
 - Kim Jong Un's 'emaciated looks' are worrying broken-hearted North Koreans, state TV reports
 - Gen. Milley 'repeatedly blew up' at Trump over racial justice protests, new book reports
 - Courtney Love accuses Olivia Rodrigo of 'stealing' idea for promo
 - France's far-right National Rally party loses regional elections, in a blow to Marine Le Pen
 - Cardi B throws pregnancy reveal party at BET Awards
 - John Oliver creates his own health care sharing ministry to highlight their significant shortcomings
 - Former Trump Organization executive weighs Trump's odds of avoiding indictment and jail
 - Toyota is the top donor to the 'Sedition Caucus' of Republicans who wouldn't certify Biden's win
 - Michigan boat captain finds 1926 message in a bottle
 - Russia is having a hard time motivating people to get vaccinated
 - 'Bonkers' heat wave shattered records from Eugene, Oregon, to Canada. Monday is forecast to be even hotter.
 - Dozens of people with COVID-19 were likely on Mount Everest this climbing season
 - Cops creator John Langley dies while in Mexico for off-road race
 - U.S. airstrikes target Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria
 
- June 27th
 - Report: Trump Organization lawyers have until Monday to persuade prosecutors not to file charges
 - Mike Gravel, former Alaska senator and idiosyncratic presidential candidate, has died at 91
 - GOP senators say bipartisan infrastructure deal is back on track after Biden's clarification. Manchin backs 2nd bill.
 - U.K. health secretary resigns over photos, video of him kissing an aide during lockdown
 - Brutal heat wave across the Pacific Northwest shatters records
 - Biden clarifies that he would sign a bipartisan infrastructure bill, even without Democrats-only 'tandem' bill
 - Death toll rises to 9 in Miami-area condo collapse
 
- June 26th
 - A 'heroic' civilian who killed a Colorado gunman was fatally shot by a responding officer
 - Anti-lockdown protesters in London lob 'not very nice' tennis balls at Parliament
 - Thousands of pigeons are missing in England in a 'Bermuda Triangle-style mystery'
 - Bill Maher attempts to convince Quentin Tarantino to drop his 'terrible idea' of quitting directing
 - The Tour de France just started — and a fan has already caused a crash
 - Hope dims for families awaiting news of relatives missing in the Surfside condo collapse
 - Trump's Ohio rally could potentially offer clues to if he's planning a 2024 presidential run
 - Northwest states brace for weekend of deadly heat
 
- June 25th
 - Derek Chauvin only 10th police officer in 16 years to serve prison time for on-duty murder
 - The highly-anticipated UFO report is 'rather inconclusive'
 - The underlying reason Biden's infrastructure veto threat shocked Republicans
 - CNN's Van Jones disappointed by Chauvin's sentence: 'A punch in the gut'
 - George Floyd's 7-year-old daughter delivers emotional statement in court: 'I miss you'
 - Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for murdering George Floyd
 - The Trump Organization could reportedly face criminal charges 'as soon as next week'
 - Lab leaks have happened before, and probably more often than you'd think
 - Pennsylvania GOP is trying to 'cancel' critical race theory academics, critics point out
 - Men are rapidly losing their close friends, poll finds
 - Justice Department sues Georgia over voting restrictions
 - 'This is not safe': Champlain Towers residents reportedly complained of 'disrepair' prior to collapse
 - Britney Spears' conservatorship battle could drag on for 'years'
 - The Delta variant has hit Israel, but health officials have reason to be optimistic
 - Amazon and Google face British investigation over fake reviews
 - Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel bid farewell to Conan, pump gossip from former O'Brien collaborator Brian Stack
 - Colbert, Kimmel, and Fallon rib Rudy Giuliani for losing his law license, tell Biden to stop whispering
 - Tucker Carlson's attack on Gen. Milley is 'confirmation' Trump wanted 'massacre' of protesters, David Frum argues
 - Canada Indigenous group finds at least 600 unmarked graves at former residential school
 - Kevin McCarthy will reportedly meet with police officers injured on Jan. 6
 - Reflecting on Jan. 6, Pence tells Republicans not to 'lose faith in the Constitution'
 - Conan O'Brien signs off of late-night TV after 28 years with help from Homer Simpson, Jack Black
 - Derek Chauvin set to be sentenced on Friday
 - Britney Spears apologizes to fans for 'pretending like I've been okay'
 - Lindsey Graham says he won't be 'extorted by liberal Democrats' over infrastructure deal
 
- June 24th
 - Biden administration planning to evacuate Afghans who assisted U.S. military
 - 'Asset recycling' is 1 piece of the bipartisan infrastructure deal that could prove controversial
 - Lena Dunham announces a movie based on a 'historic property': Polly Pocket
 - 'Pay them more': Biden's succinct response to questions about worker shortages
 - Meghan McCain calls for the FBI to get involved in the Britney Spears case
 - Biden backs Pelosi plan to hold infrastructure deal until Senate passes reconciliation bill
 - OAN host calls for mass executions of those responsible for 'overthrowing' Trump
 - Biden announces bipartisan infrastructure deal, but it 'still faces serious hurdles'
 - A 'mysterious illness' is plaguing birds and baffling scientists across parts of the U.S.
 - New York suspends Giuliani's law license over 'false and misleading' election claims
 - Anthony Fauci was hosed down, naked, 'in what looked like a kiddy pool' after being mailed mysterious white powder
 - Trump advisers reportedly hoped he'd be 'a changed man' after his COVID-19 battle. They were quickly disappointed.
 - Border Democrats call for Biden to vaccinate migrants: 'It would be silly not to'
 - Biden's approval rating rises to 56 percent in Fox News poll
 - 12-story Miami-area condo tower collapses
 - ‘Riding high in May, shot down in June’: the DUP implosion explained
 - Britney Spears says her $10,000-a-week lawyer never told her she could ask to end 'abusive' conservatorship
 - Weightlifting: Olympic Games set for transgender first
 - Colbert, Fallon, and Kimmel guess why Ivanka and Jared are really distancing themselves from Trump
 - 'Outraged' Fox News host Laura Ingraham wants to defund the Pentagon over Gen. Milley's race studies defense
 - Italian journalist reporting on missing toddler finds the boy
 - Joplin hospital reopens shuttered COVID-19 ward as Missouri cases jump in under-vaccinated areas
 - Natoma Canfield, woman who became face of the Affordable Care Act, dies at 61
 - Border Patrol chief who backed Trump's wall ousted
 - Blink-182's Mark Hoppus announces he has cancer
 - Bipartisan senators to brief Biden on latest infrastructure agreement
 - 'Ashamed' Capitol rioter gets probation after guilty plea
 
- June 23rd
 - Britney Spears calls conservatorship 'abusive,' says she's not allowed to get married or have a baby
 - John McAfee's social media team appears to conduct QAnon 'stunt' after reports of his death in prison
 - Stephen Bannon thinks GOP could gain 50 House seats if they focus on critical race theory
 - Jerry Seinfeld is making a 'giant, crazy comedy movie' about Pop-Tarts
 - Matthew McConaughey has the best favorability numbers of any potential Texas gubernatorial challenger
 - Former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell pleads guilty to attempted child endangerment
 - Why perpetual COVID-19 vaccine boosting 'isn't an ideal option'
 - Michigan GOP investigation finds no voter fraud evidence, slams 'demonstrably false theories'
 - Gen. Mark Milley defends a military interest in critical race theory
 - UNC student body president throws support behind Nikole Hannah-Jones
 - Supreme Court conservatives just 'undid one of César Chávez's greatest accomplishments'
 - Trump reportedly joked about COVID-19 and mocked people who got sick
 - What the Supreme Court's 'cursing cheerleader' decision means for students' free speech rights
 - Loki director says it was 'very important' to confirm the character is bisexual
 - Harrison Ford injured on Indiana Jones 5, filming will be 'reconfigured as needed'
 - 'Abundantly clear' Democrats never had a plan to pass election reform bill, former Obama aide says
 - Listen to India Walton's heartwarming call with her mother after presumably winning Buffalo's mayoral democratic primary
 - Is Eric Adams' public safety 'synthesis' a winning formula for Democrats?
 - Twitter explodes over insane trailer for Netflix's Masked Singer-esque dating show
 - Tim Cook reportedly called Pelosi to 'deliver a warning' about Congress' antitrust bills
 - Democrats aren't giving up on protecting voting rights, but their options are pretty limited
 - Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert have mixed reactions to Trump trying to sic the DOJ on late-night comedians
 - Buffalo appears to have elected a socialist mayor in big upset over 4-term incumbent
 - NYC mayoral primary: Democrat Eric Adams holds initial lead, Andrew Yang concedes
 - Jamal Khashoggi's Saudi killers got paramilitary training in U.S., reportedly killed him with drugs from Egypt
 - Interior Department to begin 'painful' review of Indigenous boarding schools
 - U.S. to give asylum seekers whose cases were closed another chance
 - Pelosi expected to soon announce whether she will create Jan. 6 select committee
 - Texas hospital system says 153 workers resigned or were fired after refusing COVID-19 vaccine
 
- June 22nd
 - Harris says the right to vote is 'an American concern,' not partisan
 - Senate Republicans block debate on voting rights legislation
 - Most major utilities in analysis reduced emissions rates in 2020 with all lowering use of coal
 - Biden dials up support of For The People Act after criticism from progressives
 - T-Pain recalls Usher waking him up on a flight to tell him he ruined music
 - A new index fund aims to give small investors a 'voice' to address climate change
 - Britney Spears' father is reportedly living in an RV in Louisiana despite a $16,000/month salary as her conservator
 - Cara Delevingne's house has a 'vagina tunnel'
 - Schumer says GOP 'afraid' to debate voting reform bill as Manchin sticks with Democrats
 - Mitch McConnell defends likely Republican filibuster of Senate voting rights debate
 - 'Where is the president?': Progressives lament Biden's approach to the likely doomed For The People Act
 - Median home price in America tops $350,000 for first time
 - Why Kyrsten Sinema's fears about a post-filibuster GOP may be exaggerated
 - Trump's ex-bodyguard Matthew Calamari has lawyered up, on New York prosecutors' advice
 - Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Meyers gawk at Trump's Gitmo plan, chide bishops for 'Holy Ghosting' Biden
 - Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse fends off questions on family's membership in exclusive beach club
 - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes bipartisan anti-cruelty bill for dogs, earning AbbottHatesDogs hashtag
 - U.S. COVID-19 deaths drop to lowest level since March 2020, but young adults are a growing challenge
 - Study: Drinking coffee cuts risk of liver problems
 - Appeals court blocks ruling overturning California's assault weapons ban
 - Prosecutors are reportedly frustrated by lack of cooperation from Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg
 - Trump proposed using Guantanamo Bay to house early U.S. COVID-19 patients, new book reports
 - Philippines' Duterte warns he'll jail people who refuse the COVID-19 vaccine
 - Iran's president-elect says he won't meet with Biden, wants sanctions lifted ASAP
 
- June 21st
 - Raiders' Carl Nassib becomes 1st active NFL player to come out as gay
 - Trump Organization sues NYC, alleging wrongful termination of contracts
 - Dick Durbin doesn't know what Joe Manchin will do
 - Denmark rallies in stunning fashion to advance in Euros after Christian Eriksen on-field health scare
 - The White House will likely miss its deadline to send 80 million vaccine doses abroad by the end of June
 - Schumer makes major caveat ahead of Senate voting rights vote. He may have had Joe Manchin in mind.
 - Susan Collins: 'Growing optimism' about bipartisan infrastructure deal
 - 2 approaches Democrats may take to sway Joe Manchin on key legislation
 - Famed 'Netflix skeptic' Steven Spielberg signs a deal with Netflix
 - A runner just qualified for the Olympics while wearing Cool Ranch Doritos earrings
 - The number of Americans that attribute Biden's victory to voter fraud 'has not budged' since November
 - The Bachelor's Rachel Lindsay blasts the show's 'hateful, racist' fans
 - Brett Kavanaugh may have set the stage for upending the NCAA model
 - 'An abysmally stupid move': Democrats complain the party is botching the nationwide redistricting battle
 - James Michael Tyler, Friends' Gunther, emotionally reveals prostate cancer diagnosis
 - The time Trump reportedly unwittingly called Jared Kushner an idiot
 - Fox News' Tucker Carlson is reportedly a 'primary supersecret source' for journalists
 - Thousands sign petitions to keep Bezos in space
 - Amazon Prime Day is here, and sellers are worried
 - Tokyo Olympics to allow up to 10,000 Japanese spectators
 - John Oliver warns against the well-intentioned horrors of PACE home renovation loans
 - Fewer than a third of Iowans would vote for GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley if he seeks an 8th term, poll finds
 - Sen. Ron Johnson was booed at a Milwaukee Juneteenth celebration
 - Wisconsin dad breaks world record for most pushups done in a year
 - Watch Dave Chappelle sing Radiohead's 'Creep' with Foo Fighters in Madison Square Garden's reopening concert
 - Facing staffing issues, American Airlines cancels hundreds of flights
 - Liz Cheney spent at least $58,000 on bodyguards after Jan. 6, wants to teach GOP basic civics
 - Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy running for governor in Idaho
 - Jon Rahm wins U.S. Open
 - Jake Sullivan: U.S. must keep 'eye on the ball' amid nuclear talks with Iran
 
- June 20th
 - Member of Uganda's Olympic team tests positive for coronavirus
 - GOP's Portman calls Manchin's voting reform compromise a 'federal takeover' of election system
 - Did Putin get 'exactly what he wanted' out of Biden summit?
 - Sanders says he won't back bipartisan infrastructure bill if it includes higher gas tax, electric vehicle fee
 - Former Afghan president says country will be 'better off' without U.S. military
 - DeSantis edges Trump in new 2024 straw poll
 - Why Pope Francis probably isn't worried about U.S. bishops' vote on Communion guidance
 - The future of drone warfare
 
- June 19th
 - Is the NBA on the verge of playoff chaos?
 - What Ebrahim Raisi's election means for Iran — and the U.S.
 - McCarthy spox clarifies Trump-speaker comments
 - Bidens announce their dog Champ has died
 - Kevin McCarthy appears to say Trump has told him he wants to be House speaker
 - Case for inflation panic has 'died,' Paul Krugman argues
 
- June 18th
 - Ted Cruz likens Democrats to the Terminator, and 6 more notable moments from the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference
 - Taylor Swift's re-recorded Red will seemingly include a 10-minute version of 'All Too Well'
 - Mike Pence heckled and called a 'traitor' at conservative conference
 - Airline start-ups Breeze and Avelo gamble on post-pandemic travel
 - Mark Meadows reportedly predicted 'nobody is going to care' about George Floyd's killing
 - The Republicans who voted against the Juneteenth holiday think it will 'create confusion' alongside July 4
 - Biden gets called out for 'disappointing' Trump-like habit of hiring senior aides' children
 - HBO Max sends subscribers bizarre 'integration test' email, blames 'the intern'
 - Biden's silence on capital punishment is irking fellow death penalty opponents
 - Great Britain has its 1st Catholic prime minister, to the great surprise of most Britons
 - Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert cheer the new Juneteenth holiday, jeer the 14 congressmen who voted against it
 - Biden suspends Trump's 25 percent tariff on Scotch whisky, but U.K. tariffs on U.S. bourbon remain
 - The House votes to repeal 2002 military authorization for the Iraq War, with Biden's blessing
 - Almost all operations shut down as COVID-19 outbreak hits U.S. Embassy in Kabul
 - Russian media apparently sees Biden as a shrewd statesman, not a bumbling dotard, after Putin meeting
 - 1 killed, 12 wounded in multiple drive-by shootings near Phoenix
 - St. Louis husband and wife who waved guns at demonstrators plead guilty to misdemeanors
 - After Putin meeting, White House now looking to 'engage' with China's Xi Jinping
 - Naomi Osaka withdraws from Wimbledon, but is 'excited' for the Olympics
 
- June 17th
 - Israeli airstrikes target Hamas compounds in Gaza for the 2nd time this week
 - Usher attended the Juneteenth bill signing ceremony, and lawmakers loved it
 - Mitch McConnell shuts down hope of Republican support for Joe Manchin's voting rights compromise
 - Peter Jackson's new documentary about The Beatles will be 6 hours long
 - Rep. Paul Gosar's brothers apologize to Capitol police 'on behalf of the actual sane members of our family'
 - Fox News reportedly presented GOP activist guests as parents concerned about critical race theory
 - Supreme Court upholds ObamaCare for 3rd time but 'sidesteps' case's larger questions
 - Children’s social care system a ‘Jenga tower held together by Sellotape’
 - Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom star in dystopian ad supporting voting rights legislation
 - Andrew Giuliani reportedly employs a TikTok-famous zookeeper on his campaign staff
 - Stacey Abrams backs Joe Manchin's voting rights compromise
 - South Carolina can't electrocute death row inmates who opt for nonexistent firing squad, court rules
 - Officer injured in Capitol riot says GOP lawmaker refused to shake his hand, ran away 'like a coward'
 - Samantha Bee: Republicans and Fox News don't understand or actually care about 'Critical Race Theory'
 - Russia's controversial 764-mile-long natural gas pipeline
 - Biden returns from Europe to big fights over infrastructure, voting rights, and Joe Manchin
 - Emmanuel Macron’s assault: a slap in the face for French democracy?
 - Late night hosts joke through highlights from Biden and Putin's big 'Boniva in Geneva'
 - Kim Jong Un admits North Korea's food situation is dire
 - Colorado woman spends vacation crisscrossing the U.S., picking up trash
 - Texas governor redirects $250 million in taxpayer money to kickstart his state border wall
 - Proud Boys leader says the far-right group is 'hemorrhaging money'
 - House overwhelmingly votes to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
 
- June 16th
 - NASA: Earth is trapping 'unprecedented' amount of heat, warming 'faster than expected'
 - Chris Rock says he liked The Sopranos too much to be on it
 - DOJ restores asylum eligibility for those fleeing domestic violence
 - The Biden comment that likely got Putin's attention
 - Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson tops People Magazine's list of reasons to love America
 - Rick Ross finds peace mowing his lawn
 - John Bolton proclaims 'complete vindication' after DOJ drops criminal probe over his book
 - Catherine Zeta-Jones flaunts her zucchinis
 - Joe Manchin proposes a voting reform compromise. Does it stand a chance?
 - The 5 weirdest moments of the Biden-Putin summit
 - Biden says he told Putin consequences 'would be devastating for Russia' if Navalny dies
 - Biden apologizes for being 'such a wiseguy' after snapping at CNN reporter
 - After 'constructive' meeting with Biden, Putin asks, 'Who's the killer now?'
 - U.S. reporter tells Putin his opponents end up 'dead, imprisoned, or jailed,' asks 'what are you so afraid of?'
 - The bizarre reason New York mayoral candidate Eric Adams refers to himself in the 3rd person
 - The Russian press could tell us how the Biden-Putin summit really went
 - RNC, without 'a hint of irony,' slams Biden for meeting with Putin
 - Netanyahu is squatting in Israel's prime minster's residence, and it's not clear when he's moving out
 - Biden breaks with Obama to call Russia a 'great power'
 - Putin surprisingly arrives on time for meeting with Biden
 - A California tech millionaire is weeks away from selling helmets that can read your mind
 - 'Pure insanity': Emails show Trump's acting attorney general and his aides battling Trump election conspiracies
 - Trevor Noah and Jimmy Kimmel aren't super impressed with Marjorie Taylor Greene's Holocaust apology
 - The Trump administration tried hard to prove the COVID-19 Wuhan lab-leak theory, came up short
 - Report: Trump Organization CFO could face charges as soon as this summer
 - House approves Congressional Gold Medals for Jan. 6 police officers. 21 Republicans voted no.
 - Tensions high after Israeli airstrikes hit Hamas sites in Gaza
 - Southern Baptist Convention elects Ed Litton as next president
 - On the 4th of July, White House to celebrate 'independence' from COVID-19
 - Senate unanimously passes bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
 
- June 15th
 - Former GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher confirms he was at the Capitol on Jan. 6
 - Mackenzie Scott gave away $6 billion in 2020 — and grew richer
 - McConnell scapegoats Biden in defense of his SCOTUS comments
 - Did MLB go too far with 'sticky stuff' crackdown? This former hitter thinks so.
 - Harvey Weinstein to be extradited to California to face sexual assault charges
 - The White House is trying to keep expectations low for the Biden-Putin meeting
 - In 'huge departure,' Associated Press will no longer name suspects in minor crimes
 - Airbnb reportedly paid a woman $7 million in exchange for not blaming the company for her rape
 - New York lifts most COVID-19 restrictions in 'return to life as we know it'
 - Monica Lewinsky signs producing deal with goal of telling 'thought-provoking' stories
 - Long COVID might be a bigger problem than researchers thought
 - Pink Floyd's Roger Waters says 'f--- you' to Zuckerberg, turns down Facebook's 'huge' offer
 - Kevin McCarthy vows to remove Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs committee if GOP retakes the House
 - Amazon intentionally limited upward mobility for hourly workers, former VP of HR says
 - Publishing houses 'wary' of acquiring a Trump memoir: 'A fact-checking nightmare'
 - Late night hosts crack old-man jokes about Biden's meeting with Queen Elizabeth
 - Gone Girl actor Lisa Banes dies after hit-and-run in New York City
 - COVID-19 vaccines reduce hospitalization risk from Delta variant by at least 90 percent, U.K. studies find
 - Jon Stewart makes an animated case for the Wuhan lab-leak theory to a skeptical Stephen Colbert
 - Rising COVID-19 cases in low-vaccine states plus Delta variant have U.S. health experts increasingly nervous
 - Georgia grocery store cashier shot dead by customer after argument over face masks
 - 50 million Americans under excessive heat warnings
 - Stephen Colbert puts on his pants and tells jokes before his studio audience for the 1st time in 460 days
 - Hundreds protest Manchin over his opposition to voting rights legislation
 - FBI: Some QAnon adherents no longer 'trust the plan' or Q's prophesies, may turn to violence
 - Senate confirms Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to powerful appeals court
 - Biden says NATO leaders 'thanked me' for setting up meeting with Putin
 
- June 14th
 - Lin-Manuel Miranda says 'we fell short' after In the Heights colorism backlash
 - Reality Winner, NSA contractor who leaked intelligence, released from prison
 - High temperatures give way to more power grid concerns in Texas
 - Biden snubs U.S. press during meeting with Turkish president
 - CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour announces she's been diagnosed with ovarian cancer
 - Chrissy Teigen apologizes for her 'horrible' tweets: 'I was a troll'
 - The Delta variant is producing different COVID-19 symptoms than usual, researchers say
 - McConnell suggests a GOP-held Senate would block a Biden Supreme Court nominee — no matter the timing
 - A 'political death warrant': GOP lawmakers struggle after criticizing Trump
 - This incredible halfway line shot might be the goal of the 2021 Euros
 - Harris was reportedly prepped for border question, making her answer 'all the more unnerving' to allies
 - Rand Paul says the idea of majority rule 'goes against' American democracy
 - Why a movie about the Christchurch shootings is stirring controversy in New Zealand
 - Ziona Chana, patriarch of Christian sect in India, dies, leaving 38 wives and 89 kids
 - Novavax vaccine could provide 'much-needed boost' to global vaccine push
 - Oregon House expels GOP lawmaker caught on camera collaborating with Capitol-breaching mob
 - The return of the Trump rally
 - John Oliver rebukes Texas, other states for 'cooking prisoners to death'
 - Biden goes to mass, has tea with the queen, flies to Brussels
 - Israel's Netanyahu will not attend successor Naftali Bennett's inauguration ceremony
 - Trump Justice Department reportedly subpoenaed records of Trump's White House counsel in 2018
 
- June 13th
 - In the Heights has a surprisingly disappointing debut at the box office
 - Susan Collins: Bipartisan infrastructure plan proposes user tax for electric vehicle 'free riders'
 - Israeli parliament approves coalition, Netanyahu out
 - Djokovic drops first 2 sets, surges to win French Open for 19th Grand Slam title
 - Is Joe Manchin overlooking a 'middle ground' filibuster solution?
 - The main hurdle for a potential cybercriminal exchange between Russia, U.S.
 - Netanyahu goes 'scorched earth,' criticizes Biden in speech ahead of ouster
 - Biden says he's 'satisfied' with G7's final stance on China
 
- June 12th
 - Deborah Birx reportedly called fighting the pandemic and Scott Atlas 'together' the 'hardest thing I've had to do'
 - Danish soccer star reportedly awake, stabilized in hospital after on-field collapse
 - Why Garland's DOJ is siding with the Trump administration in several cases
 - Barbora Krejcikova becomes 3rd unseeded women's player to win French Open in 5 years
 - Biden gets thumbs up from Macron, who says U.S. is 'definitely' back
 - China's U.K. embassy scoffs at G7 as Biden urges allies to take stand against Beijing
 
- June 11th
 - Biden has 'every intention' of discussing Alexei Navalny during meeting with Putin, White House says
 - The story behind the 'Boris Bike,' Biden's gift to Boris Johnson
 - DOJ inspector general to probe secret subpoenas of Democrats during Trump administration
 - 'No one will be spared': Georgia election workers have reportedly received a 'torrent' of threats from Trump supporters
 - Teenager who filmed George Floyd's killing receives Pulitzer Prize special citation
 - 60 million J&J vaccine doses need to be thrown out after factory mishap, FDA reportedly says
 - Bernie Sanders wants to know if cannabis reporter is 'stoned' right now
 - Police 'struggling to track down' person behind almost 6 months of 911 calls to Jennifer Lopez's house
 - Used cars and trucks drove much of May's steep inflation number
 - Nevada group proposes forcing teachers to wear body cameras to ensure they don't teach critical race theory
 - After meeting with Biden, Boris Johnson tries to make 'indestructible relationship' happen
 - Trevor Noah and Jimmy Kimmel credit U.S. anti-vaxxers for Biden's big global COVID-19 vaccine donation
 - Hundreds of Americans, thousands around the world are still dying of COVID-19 every day
 - Former California police chief indicted on Capitol riot charges
 - Texas governor says Texas will build its own border wall, leaves the details to later
 - 2 guests on Celebrity Millennium cruise ship test positive for COVID-19
 - Trump DOJ seized Apple data from Adam Schiff, other House Democrats
 - Zahid Quraishi confirmed as 1st Muslim American federal judge in U.S. history
 - Bipartisan group of senators reach nearly $1 trillion infrastructure deal
 
- June 10th
 - G7 countries expected to donate 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses worldwide
 - Unemployment fraud during the pandemic has reportedly funneled billions to foreign crime syndicates
 - Rep. Ilhan Omar makes 'full backtrack' on ICC questions despite fierce defense from AOC
 - Jeffrey Toobin asked 'what the hell were you thinking' during CNN return
 - Caitlyn Jenner refuses to say Trump lost the 2020 election
 - Biden and Boris Johnson bond over out-of-their-league wives
 - Bill de Blasio embroiled in yet another pizza debacle
 - Consumer prices in May see 'largest annual gain since August 2008'
 - Stonewall: a champion or a bully?
 - Biden allies reportedly pan Harris' 1st foreign trip as a 'disaster'
 - Trump is reportedly crashing memorial services, living large 'like Napoleon at Elba'
 - Harry and Meghan rift is 'very sad' and 'difficult' for the queen, Prince Edward says
 - National Geographic adds a 5th ocean to the world map
 - Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel laugh about Biden's cicada troubles
 - 5 former Treasury secretaries endorse Biden proposals to crack down on tax evasion
 - Athlete's dream comes true when she's surprised with entry into Special Olympics USA Games
 - Texas hospital system suspends workers who won't get the COVID-19 vaccine
 - Texas AG Ken Paxton's Supreme Court lawsuit to overturn Biden's win could get him disbarred
 - Report: Pentagon considering use of warplanes, drones if Afghan forces are in crisis
 - Meat supplier JBS paid $11 million ransom following cyberattack
 - Florida Democratic Rep. Val Demings launches campaign for Marco Rubio's Senate seat
 
- June 9th
 - The controversial Keystone XL pipeline project has been canceled
 - The timing of Putin's ban on Navalny movement likely isn't a coincidence
 - Where does NYC mayoral candidate Eric Adams live and what is going on with his fridge?
 - Biden garners big applause from U.S. troops in U.K. with tough talk ahead of Putin meeting
 - R. Kelly tells judge he fired 2 of his lawyers as they move to quit case
 - Elizabeth Warren goes after bitcoin
 - Police didn't clear protesters from Lafayette Park for Trump photo op, IG report says
 - Secretary of State Antony Blinken is also listening to 'Driver's License'
 - The U.S. will reportedly purchase 500 million Pfizer doses, donate them worldwide
 - Loki could already be setting up some big Marvel movie storylines
 - 'The executive branch doesn't write the bills': Democratic senator scolds Biden adviser over climate question
 - GOP lawmaker earnestly asks if the U.S. Forest Service can alter the Earth's orbit
 - 10 landmine-clearing workers killed in attack in Afghanistan, charity says
 - In a global first, El Salvador adopts bitcoin as legal currency
 - Almost a third of GOP voters believe Trump could be reinstated as president this year
 - San Francisco might have reached herd immunity
 - Harry and Meghan insist they asked the queen about naming their daughter after her
 - Biden press plane delayed over 6 hours due to cicadas
 - European Parliament gives final approval to EU COVID passports
 - Nasal spray antibody treatment shows promise against COVID-19, variants in mouse study
 - NASA's return to Venus
 - Late night hosts each joke about a different Trump story in the news
 - The federal marijuana ban is contributing to climate change
 - Woman finds a one-of-a-kind way to share her famous fudge recipe
 - Biden's new bipartisan Senate infrastructure negotiation partners sound cautiously optimistic about a deal
 - New book claims Trump thought Democrats would replace Biden with Michelle Obama
 - Terry McAuliffe wins Virginia's Democratic gubernatorial primary
 - Senate passes sweeping bill to boost U.S. tech industry
 - It's looking less likely the U.S. will hit Biden's July 4 vaccine goal
 
- June 8th
 - Harris: U.S. and allies need to give migrants 'a sense of hope that help is on the way'
 - Biden-Capito infrastructure negotiations have officially broken down
 - New York Times deletes an article claiming watermelons were discovered on Mars
 - Trump praises Nigeria for banning Twitter
 - FBI sold crime syndicates on an encrypted phone app in wild sting operation
 - Kamala Harris to host a ladies-only Senate dinner party
 - The astonishing rise of chicken meat, in 1 chart
 - U.N. court ruling on ex-Bosnian Serb military chief's role in '95 genocide leaves some activists dissatisfied
 - Mike Myers is starring as 7 different characters in an Illuminati-like secret society comedy
 - Driving laps on a NASCAR track wasn't as popular a vaccine reward as Kansas officials hoped
 - Watch French President Emmanuel Macron get slapped in the face
 - GOP congressman praises Buttigieg for helping 'tone down the rhetoric in D.C.'
 - Support for same-sex marriage in the U.S. is at an all-time high
 - Kamala Harris defends not visiting U.S.-Mexico border in slightly contentious exchange with Lester Holt
 - Chris Harrison will not return to Bachelor franchise after racism controversy
 - Kanye West kicks off his Gap deal by selling 1 jacket
 - Moderna CEO expects COVID-19 vaccine to be available for kids as young as 5 by early fall
 - Elon Musk reportedly paid no federal income tax in 2018
 - Senate releases bipartisan Capitol insurrection report identifying big problems, 20 solutions, no blame for Trump
 - Massive internet outage takes down major news, commerce, U.K. government sites
 - Justice Department directs federal law enforcement to wear body cameras when executing warrants
 - Late night hosts have some jokes about Jeff Bezos going to space
 - Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel laugh at Trump's apocryphal backward-pants 'wardrobe malfunction'
 - Biden's Justice Department will continue to try to defend Trump in E. Jean Carroll defamation suit
 - Dozens arrested after protesters move to block Minnesota pipeline
 - Obama says 'certain right-wing media' outlets are 'stoking the fear and resentment' of white Americans
 - Obama criticizes GOP's embrace of 'unrecognizable' and 'unacceptable' ideas about democracy
 - Congressional report finds Fisher-Price ignored warnings about sleeper being dangerous for infants
 
- June 7th
 - Harris says U.S. is taking new steps to address root causes of migration from Guatemala
 - CNN obtains never-before-heard audio of Giuliani pressuring a Ukrainian official
 - Less than 25 percent of Black Americans have reportedly received their first COVID-19 shot
 - Cher apologizes for her 'grave error' of calling Kirsten Gillibrand a traitor when she meant Kyrsten Sinema
 - Amazon is apparently selling counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination cards
 - New DOJ task force oversees successful recovery of most of Colonial Pipeline's bitcoin ransom
 - A movie about The New York Times' bombshell Weinstein investigation is in the works
 - Ellie Kemper apologizes for participating in debutante ball with 'racist' past in 1999
 - Liz Cheney says she was 'stunned' by Kevin McCarthy's post-Jan. 6 visit to Trump at Mar-a-Lago
 - The FDA just approved a first-of-its-kind Alzheimer's treatment. But is it effective?
 - Majority of Americans not planning to get vaccinated are 'unlikely to reconsider,' poll finds
 - A giant blot on a D.C.-area weather radar isn't rain — it's likely cicadas
 - Ukraine's Zelensky says he learned of Biden's decision to waive Russian pipeline sanctions through the press
 - New York City set to hold 'massive' Central Park concert to celebrate reopening
 - A different kind of COVID-19 vaccine is coming, and it could be 'even more protective'
 - Why the U.K. is seeing an uptick in COVID-19 cases
 - Jeff Bezos is heading to space, and he's bringing his brother
 - GOP opposition to minimum corporate tax could hinder global effort against tax havens
 - John Oliver explains how the 'model minority myth' gets Asian Americans tragically wrong
 - How Arab Israelis could seal Netanyahu's defeat
 - Watch Simone Biles win her record 7th U.S. Gymnastics Championship
 - Israeli intelligence chief warns of political violence as Netanyahu attacks government waiting to replace him
 - At least 25 dead in Pakistan train collision
 
- June 6th
 - Study: Lynparza can reduce relapse, death in some breast cancer patients
 - Prince Harry and Meghan Markle welcome their 2nd child
 - Condoleezza Rice: 'Wasn't worth trusting' China in early stages of pandemic
 - Democratic congressman accuses Manchin of voting to 'preserve Jim Crow'
 - Energy secretary says she'd support law banning ransomware payments
 - Why Harris has reportedly embraced migration duties
 - Foreclosures reportedly expected to remain 'extremely uncommon' until at least 2022
 - Manchin pens op-ed explaining his opposition to Democrats' sweeping voting rights bill
 - How the pandemic ends
 
- June 5th
 - Belmont Stakes favorite Essential Quality wins race after thrilling final stretch
 - Ocasio-Cortez reveals top choice in New York mayoral race
 - Mark Meadows reportedly asked acting AG to investigate 'fantastical' election conspiracy theory involving Italy
 - Elections expert 'genuinely' doesn't understand Democrats' voting rights legislation strategy
 - Psaki says 'no one at White House' aware of Justice Department's gag order on NYT subpoenas
 - Yellen's 'crucial' role in G7 tax agreement shows 'multilateralism is back,' EU official says
 
- June 4th
 - Nigeria banned Twitter over president's deleted tweet
 - Another Master and Commander movie is finally on the way
 - The Biden administration's new facial recognition app for asylum seekers sets off alarm bells
 - Ben Affleck's dad is officially the last person to find out that Bennifer is back together
 - Tom Hanks acknowledges his own guilt in powerful essay about teaching the history of racism
 - Trump won't be back on Facebook until at least 2023
 - Conservatives are spending big on bashing Anthony Fauci
 - Olympic teams arriving in Japan aren't even allowed to go outside for a walk
 - The Delta variant of COVID-19 just got even scarier
 - FBI Director Wray likens the White House's urgency to address ransomware attacks to post-9/11 alarm
 - Employers added 559,000 jobs in May
 - China's COVID-19 vaccines don't appear to be effective at preventing outbreaks in the real world
 - Southern Oregon is bracing for a tense anti-government 'standoff' over irrigation water
 - Jimmy Kimmel found Kim Jong Un his new 'assistant dictator'
 - Biden details where the U.S. will send its 1st 25 million donated COVID-19 vaccines
 - NYT: In new report, intelligence officials can't explain most UFO sightings
 - Biden's new $1 trillion infrastructure offer reportedly swaps in 15 percent minimum corporate tax for tax hike
 - Biden to meet with Queen Elizabeth during visit to UK
 - Pence says he and Trump may never 'see eye to eye' on Capitol riot
 - Prosecutors want Capitol riot defendants to pay for damages
 
- June 3rd
 - Attorney F. Lee Bailey, member of O.J. Simpson's 'Dream Team,' dies at 87
 - Facebook reportedly to end policy shielding politicians from moderation rules
 - Trump is reportedly 'trying hard to recruit' supporters to his baseless August reinstatement theory
 - Vanessa Bryant blasts Nike over apparently leaked shoe honoring Gianna
 - Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is under FBI investigation
 - Former CDC director says he received death threats from fellow scientists for supporting lab leak theory
 - Lara Trump: 'No plans' for Trump to return to office in August 'as far as I know'
 - United is investing in supersonic planes that can 'cut travel times in half'
 - Biden reportedly lowers GOP infrastructure offer to $1 trillion in new spending
 - Samantha Bee comes up with a dozen creative ways to kill the filibuster
 - Sedat Peker: the mob boss targeting Turkey’s political elite
 - Jimmy Kimmel laughs about Trump quitting his blog, Dr. Fauci's fan mail
 - A year before quitting Southern Baptists, Russell Moore privately slammed SBC leaders over sex abuse, racism, psychological 'terrorism'
 - The Trump Justice Department also secretly seized the phone records of 4 New York Times reporters last year
 - George P. Bush announces run for Texas attorney general
 - MyPillow's Mike Lindell takes credit for Trump's August return-to-power fantasy
 - UCLA economists say California should expect a 'euphoric' economic rebound
 - Derek Chauvin's lawyer argues for time served, while prosecutors seek a 30-year sentence
 - NASA to send 2 missions to Venus
 
- June 2nd
 - Netanyahu opponents reach deal to form new government
 - Trump reportedly shut down his blog because it was 'being mocked as a loser'
 - Where is Lil Uzi Vert's $24 million diamond forehead implant?
 - After walking across America, Mike Posner summits Mt. Everest
 - AMC shares reach an all-time high after surging over 120 percent
 - COVID-19 cases declined at 'virtually the same rate' after CDC mask guidance
 - Conservative book editor fears Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is too photogenic
 - Trump has already shut down his blog
 - Anheuser-Busch partners with the White House for its 'biggest beer giveaway ever'
 - RNC threatens to tell candidates not to participate in presidential debates
 - Dogs are better, faster, and cheaper for detecting COVID-19 than antigen and PCR tests, researchers say
 - Iran's largest warship catches fire, sinks under unclear circumstance
 - U.S. meat supply hit by suspected Russian ransomware attack on JBS, world's top meat processor
 - NBC's Steve Kornacki explains why Republicans are so disappointed with New Mexico special election loss
 - Jimmy Kimmel mocks Trump and Michael Flynn's 'insane and dumb' coup fantasies
 - The FEC keeps sparing Trump in election law violations tied to his campaign
 - Belarusian activist stabs himself in the throat during court hearing
 - Democrat Melanie Stansbury wins New Mexico House special election
 - China reports 1st human case of H10N3 bird flu strain
 - National Enquirer owner to pay $187,500 fine over aiding Trump campaign
 - Police: Los Angeles County firefighter shot and killed by colleague at fire station
 
- June 1st
 - Biden administration suspends oil, gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
 - Biden draws a line between the Tulsa race massacre and the Capitol riot
 - ABC legal analyst: 'All signs point to a likely indictment' in Trump case
 - Kate Winslet refused to have her stomach edited in Mare of Easttown
 - Jay-Z learned how to swim for daughter Blue Ivy in a 'metaphor' for their relationship
 - U.S. daily average of COVID-19 cases dips below 20,000 for 1st time since March 2020
 - Brian Sicknick's partner says she blames Trump for late officer's death despite previously supporting him
 - Alec Baldwin wanted to kill Tony Soprano
 - Pope Francis issues 'most significant revision' to Catholic Church law on sexual abuse since code was approved in 1983
 - Jeopardy! guest host Mayim Bialik is interested in the permanent gig
 - Emails show Fauci pleading for 'truly surrealistic' public adoration to stop
 - Trump has reportedly been telling people he'll be 'reinstated' by August
 - Fox News' Sean Hannity reportedly wrote a Trump campaign ad that aired on his show
 - Michael Flynn denies calling for Biden coup, despite video of his comments
 - Republican senators praising Biden on infrastructure talks may have ulterior motives
 - Biden is set to take a big step toward a global minimum corporate tax
 - Miami-Dade Police ask public for help identifying suspects in shooting that left 2 dead, 21 injured
 - Leaders of Israel's anti-Netanyahu coalition get extra police protection as Netanyahu battles ouster
 - WHO introduces new system to simply name coronavirus variants
 - Michael Flynn marks Memorial Day weekend by saying a Myanmar-like coup 'should happen' in U.S.
 - Texas governor threatens to cut off funding to lawmakers after Democrats block restrictive voting bill
 
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