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  • White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has insisted for a week that Donald Trump is right that mail-in voting leads to election fraud. What she neglected to mention is that she has voted by mail in every Florida election she has participated in since 2010.
  • Larry Kramer, the playwright and trailblazing AIDS activist, has died. He was 84.
  • How have some countries brought down their new cases of COVID-19 to zero, and can America pick up some tips from them?
  • CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin unloaded on Joe Kernen over his reaction to the coronavirus death toll: “One hundred thousand people died. One hundred thousand people died, Joe, and all you did was try to help your friend the President,” Sorkin said. “Every single morning on this show. You abused your position.”
  • The NY Times went bird watching with Christian Cooper after the incident in which a white woman called the cops on him with the false allegation that “an African-American man is threatening my life.”
  • SpaceX’s launch was scuttled at the last minute today because of bad weather.
  • Public health experts spoke to The Washington Post about what they will and won't do this summer.
  • This Staten Island real estate broker is vowing to reopen Friday despite not being allowed to: “This is the first time ever in my life I was told I’m non-essential."
  • If you think the videos of people wantonly hanging out at pool parties and ignoring social distancing are bad, wait until professional sports come back.
  • Here's a nice piece about how donating plasma to the New York Blood Center helped this woman who had coronavirus feel better: "I soon discovered that it’s one of the last places in town that still feels like the New York City I have lived in all my life."
  • And finally, this may be the highest jumper in all of NYC: