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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared Tuesday that “defunding police means defunding police” and that proposed budget cuts to the New York City Police Department aren’t enough to combat inequality. “Defunding police means defunding police,” the Democrat said in a statement Tuesday to the Gotham Gazette, Fox News reported. “It does not mean budget tricks or funny…

The government’s disease-fighters told Americans Tuesday to wear masks and take “personal responsibility” for stamping out the pandemic, saying the nation is heading in the wrong direction as hospitalizations rise in a dozen states and Arizona sees more deaths per day. Dr. Anthony Fauci, who leads infectious-disease research at the National Institutes of Health, said…

The Supreme Court gave a boost to school choice advocates Tuesday by ruling that barring a state scholarship program from religious institutions violated the U.S. Constitution. The ruling was 5-4, with the conservative majority finding Montana violated the First Amendment when it excluded religious schools from a state scholarship program. “No comparable ‘historic and substantial’…

Donald Trump is facing renewed questions over his relationship with Vladimir Putin after reports that he was briefed in writing in February that Russia paid bounties for the deaths of US soldiers in Afghanistan. After a meeting at the White House on Tuesday, Democratic members of Congress insisted the president must at least have been…

The ShiftSteve Huffman, Reddit’s co-founder and chief executive, says new rule changes will help the company fulfill its mission.“The current events certainly added more urgency to it,” Steve Huffman, who runs Reddit, said of its decision to ban a pro-Trump group that had nearly 800,000 subscribers.Credit...Jason Henry for The New York TimesJune 30, 2020Updated 2:20…