BREATHING LESSONS:  A Justice Department review sparked by the police murder of George Floyd accuses the Minneapolis police of discriminating against Black and Native American citizens, killing people without reason, and violating the First Amendment rights of protesters and journalists. The …

CODE ORANGE: The judge appointed to oversee Donald Trump’s trial on charges of illegally retaining national defense secrets has ordered that any lawyer taking part in the case must get security clearance to handle the classified documents that are part of …

Code Orange: Donald Trump spurned the proposal by one of his lawyers to compromise with the Justice Department and avoid indictment over his possession of classified documents, The Washington Post reports.   The paper says Trump lawyer Christopher Kise, who was paid …

CODE ORANGE: Donald Trump pleaded not guilty yesterday to a 37-countfederal indictment and made it clear that the first line of defensefor him and his political apostles is to undermine the JusticeDepartment and attack the validity of the US government underPresident …

Show and Tell Indictment: The 49-page indictment against Donald Trump charges  that the former president illegally held documents concerning “nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.” …

Trump Indicted: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on charges related to his handling of classified documents following his departure from the White House, making the self-proclaimed president of superlatives the first former president to face federal criminal charges.   He …

Stop Breathing: The air quality in New York yesterday was so bad it caused the cancellation of three big New York theater productions and two Major League Baseball games as a fog of smoke from Canadian wildfires hangs over as much …

Don’t Breathe: As any as 40 million Americans are under an air quality alert after a blanket of smoke from Canadian wildfires has drifted over at least 17 eastern US states, obscuring the sky and filling the air with the smell …

The War Room: A vital hydroelectric dam in the Russian occupied area of Kherson has breached, causing catastrophic flooding. The cause has not been given, but the dam has been under Russian control. Thousands of people are evacuating.   Both the US …

Alert: The Air Force yesterday scrambled fighter jets over Washington to pursue a wayward Cessna business jet on which the pilot had become unresponsive and ultimately crashed in southwest Virginia. The Air Force said it did not shoot down the plane. …