Three best friends killed after being beaten and shot while out fishing in Florida may have been the victims of a targeted attack, police say. Damion Tillman, 23; Keven Springfield, 30; and Brandon Rollins, 27, all died in the Friday night massacre. They were found by the father of one of the men who managed to call for help…

Politics|Trump Administration Balks at Funding for Testing and C.D.C. in Virus Relief BillSenate Republicans were infuriated after the Trump administration objected to provisions in a draft proposal, including allocating $25 billion to testing and contact tracing.Wisconsin National Guard personnel at a drive-through testing site in Milwaukee yesterday.Credit...Joshua Lott for The New York TimesPublished July 18,…

A Black woman opposing the Black Lives Matter movement, who was arrested Saturday for dumping paint on a BLM street mural outside Trump Tower, livestreamed herself doing the same thing again at similar murals in Harlem and Brooklyn later that evening.Bevelyn Beatty, 29, livestreamed each installment on her Facebook page. In her most recent post, Beatty…

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro told "Life, Liberty & Levin" in an interview airing Sunday that the ongoing unrest in the United States resembles "the French Revolution in real time without the actual physical guillotines.""The fact is that what we have seen over the last several weeks is the full flowering of an ideology of disintegrationism that…

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Rapper Kanye West, in his first event since declaring himself a presidential candidate, delivered a lengthy monologue Sunday touching on topics from abortion and religion to international trade and licensing deals. Whether he’s actually seeking the nation’s highest office remains a question. West said that while he believes abortion should be legal,…