President Trump’s reelection bid has had a rough few weeks, with challenges coming from both his stewardship of the presidency and past controversies that may be catching up with him.

Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell filed court documents on Friday asking her released on bail as she awaits trial amid the coronavirus pandemic.

An Ohio sheriff said he won't enforce Governor Mike DeWine's order making face masks mandatory in states with high rates of Covid-19 infections.Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones appeared on CNN Wednesday and told anchor Brianna Keilar that while he wears a mask and is "good with that," he has no plans on enforcing the governor's mask order.

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Newly released documents in the Michael Flynn case include a January 2017 DOJ draft memo that states “FBI leadership” decided against showing Flynn transcripts of his calls with the Russian ambassador in the White House interview that led to his guilty plea.The DOJ document, dated January 30, 2017 — along with a batch of handwritten notes from DOJ and FBI officials describing Flynn’s White House interview with former FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI agent Joseph Pientka on January 24, 2017 — shed further light on the FBI’s spontaneous interview with Flynn, who had just begun his role as national-security adviser for President Trump.“FBI advised that based on this interview, they did not believe General Flynn was acting as an age of Russia,” the DOJ draft document, which is heavily redacted, states. “FBI also advised that although they recognized the statements were inconsistent with the FISA collection, they believed that Flynn believed what he was telling them. FBI did not confront Flynn with the communications during the interview.”The document explains that while the Bureau “prompted Flynn with language used during the call,” Flynn was not shown his actual words because of a decision “made by FBI leadership not to confront Flynn with the actual tech cuts.”The mentioning of “tech cuts” about the interview’s subject matter — Flynn’s December 2016 conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak — adds further context to the questions over how Flynn’s calls were monitored in the first place. “Tech cuts” are commonly referred to as internal FBI documents that contain and describe FISA intelligence, suggesting that the FBI picked up Flynn’s calls through FISA surveillance. DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz has said his office found no evidence of a FISA application on Flynn, raising the possibility that Flynn's calls with Kislyak were picked up through FISA surveillance of the Russians.In texts between Strzok and then-DOJ lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair, Strzok references the cuts that the Bureau had obtained of Flynn’s calls, saying that then-FBI Assistant Director Bill Priestap was concerned with “sharing” information on Flynn — dubbed Crossfire Razor, or “CR” for short — with the Obama White House.“He, like us, is concerned with over sharing,” Strzok texted Page on January 3, 2017, according to a transcript obtained by John Solomon. “Doesn’t want Clapper giving CR cuts to WH. All political, just shows our hand and potentially makes enemies.”In April, unsealed documents from the Flynn investigation showed that Flynn was investigated in a case predicated by the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” probe of the 2016 Trump campaign, but the Bureau moved to close the investigation on January 4, 2017, after an “absence of any derogatory information” about Flynn’s Russian contacts. Strzok then intervened to keep the case open, explaining that “7th floor involved” — referencing the floor in Bureau headquarters that houses senior FBI leadership.Transcripts of Flynn’s calls with Kislyak were released in May, showing that Flynn never mentioned “sanctions” and asked Russia not to “escalate” after the Obama administration sanctioned the Kremlin for election interference.Flynn released the documents in a Friday court filing after they were handed over to his defense team by the Justice Department this week. Flynn is currently locked in a battle with U.S. District Court judge Emmet Sullivan, who has so far refused to drop Flynn’s guilty plea  despite the DOJ’s move to withdraw its case, citing previously undisclosed exculpatory information.“In short, there was no crime for many reasons,” Flynn’s lawyer Sidney Powell wrote of the new information. “These documents were known to exist at the highest levels of the Justice Department and by Special Counsel, yet they were hidden from the defense for three years.”On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ordered Powell and the DOJ to respond within 10 days to Judge Sullivan's Thursday "en banc" petition for Flynn's case to be heard by the full appeals court. A panel for the D.C. Circuit has already ruled that Sullivan must dismiss the case.

President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, was transferred to the same federal lockup in Otisville where he was serving time for tax evasion, lying to Congress and campaign finance crimes before the coronavirus pandemic prompted his early release, his attorney said Friday. The move late Thursday came hours after federal authorities said Cohen refused to accept the conditions of his home confinement, specifically that he submit to wearing an ankle monitor. Cohen attorney Jeffrey Levine said Cohen never refused to wear an ankle monitor but raised concerns about conditions of his home confinement that forbade him from using social media, speaking with the press and publishing a tell-all book he wrote in federal prison.

Thousands of parents and students in New York were in shock Thursday after they were told their Catholic schools will not reopen in the fall. Officials say fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is to blame; CBS2's Hazel Sanchez reports.

This isn't the first time the 23-year-old Brazilian beauty has broken barriers for trans models.

The forested mountains in and around North Cascades National Park in north central Washington state have long been considered prime habitat for threatened grizzly bears, so environmental groups are upset the Trump administration scrapped plans to reintroduce the apex predators there. U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt on Tuesday announced his agency will not conduct the environmental impact statement needed to move forward with the idea.

Five Guys confirmed the termination of the workers who turned their backs to the officers and that store is temporarily closed for customer service training.

The senior citizens who populate Texas nursing homes were not jammed into bars or packed onto beaches on Memorial Day, but officials there now fear that coronavirus that began spreading among younger people over the past month is imperiling the lives of the state’s most vulnerable. It was a grim but predictable development for a state with more nursing homes – 1,218 – than any state in the nation, experts told ABC News. Back in mid-May, nursing homes in the state had reported 561 deaths from COVID-19, according to an ABC News review of state data.

Over 12.5 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some governments are hiding the scope of their nations' outbreaks. New York recorded 799 COVID-19 hospitalizations in the last 24 hours, making it the lowest number since March 18, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

As President Donald Trump threatens to cut funding to schools that don't reopen in the fall and continues to host mega-rallies as cases of coronavirus increase, there appears to be a growing rift between the Trump White House and its top health advisers. The president has taken his criticism of the government's top expert on infectious diseases and of leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention into the public forum in his massive push to reopen the country. Despite coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx asking Americans in hot spot zones to avoid indoor gatherings and reduce them to 10 people or fewer, Trump on Friday delivered remarks and attended a home fundraiser in Florida as cases there rise -- one day after the state saw a record death toll.

The resurgence of COVID-19 across the country this summer has deepened anxiety for millions of American small business owners who face another imminent cash crunch in their battle to survive a historic pandemic. The government’s $660 billion Paycheck Protection Program, first rolled out in April, was supposed to help many businesses and their employees weather the storm. Nearly half of all American workers are employed by a small business.

When Sen. Bernie Sanders ended his presidential campaign and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden in mid-April, the two men immediately took steps to try and unite the party ahead of a bruising general election campaign against President Donald Trump, announcing they would launch working groups to examine six different policy areas, and bridge the divide between the two wings of the Democratic party. The following month, six, eight-person teams were announced, pulling together odd-couple pairings of Biden and Sanders allies to tackle policy gaps on health care, climate change, criminal justice reform, immigration and the economy.

1. Pelosi blasts Roger Stone commutation as 'an act of staggering corruption' as Trump defends move  CNN
2. Trump Commutes Sentence of Roger Stone  The New York Times
3. Trump commutes Roger Stone's sentence. Here's why he did it  CNN
4. Harmeet Dhillon: Roger Stone was victim of political prosecution — Trump right to commute his prison term  Fox News
5. Why this Roger Stone commutation is not as controversial as some think | TheHill  The Hill
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1. Expert warns the US is approaching 'one of the most unstable times in the history of our country'  CNN
2. Rise in coronavirus patients putting strain on Alabama hospitals, healthcare workers  AL.com
3. Inside A South Carolina Hospital, Coronavirus Surge Overwhelms Staff | NBC Nightly News  NBC News
4. Worst-case scenarios predicted Mass. hospitals would be overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients. Here’s why that didn’t happen  The Boston Globe
5. From the front lines: Inside Texas hospital overwhelmed by coronavirus patients  CBS Evening News
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1. New York judge gives Trump deadline in lawsuit over tax returns following major Supreme Court ruling  The Washington Post
2. Actually, the Supreme Court Just Gave Congress a Big Win  POLITICO
3. Cyrus Vance Jr., Moves Closer to Getting Trump's Tax Records  The New York Times
4. Bad presidents risk making bad law. The Supreme Court avoided just that.  The Washington Post
5. Trump not above the law | Sheneman  NJ.com
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1. Fauci Pushes Back On Trump’s False Claims, Says He Hasn't Briefed President In 2 Months  Forbes
2. Fauci opens up about why he's not being allowed on TV  CNN
3. Trump says Fauci 'made a lot of mistakes'  NBC News
4. Haunting new images outside California Hospital as daily case numbers rise | WNT  ABC News
5. Fauci says U.S. is not "doing great" on coronavirus compared to other countries  CBS News
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1. Will Republicans ditch Trump to save the Senate as support nosedives?  The Guardian
2. This may sound like Trump’s wackiest conspiracy theory. But it’s actually true.  The Washington Post
3. Will Democrats Accept Another Trump Victory?  The Wall Street Journal
4. Newt Gingrich: Good riddance anti-Trump Republicans who would rather support Biden, Pelosi and Schumer  Fox News
5. Bye-Bye Deep State Republicans, Hello New Biden-Pelosi-Schumer Democrats | Opinion  Newsweek
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1. Fremont schools to start school year with fully remote learning  The Mercury News
2. Reopened schools in Europe and Asia have largely avoided coronavirus outbreaks. They have lessons for the U.S.  The Washington Post
3. To open Chicago Public Schools, teachers union has demands — but does the city have to meet them?  Chicago Tribune
4. I teach public school. I love my students. I don't want to die  CNN
5. Adriana Cohen: Reopening schools a must -- our tax dollars pay for our kids to get a proper education  Fox News
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1. For Oklahoma Tribe, Supreme Court Case Brings Vindication at Long Last  The New York Times
2. Supreme Court says nearly half of Oklahoma is an Indian reservation. What’s next?  Washington Post
3. What the Landmark Supreme Court Decision Means for Policing Indigenous Oklahoma  Slate
4. The Tempting of Neil Gorsuch  The Wall Street Journal
5. How the Creek Nation Finally Prevailed in Oklahoma  Bloomberg
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