A group of 15 U.S. major city mayors is calling on the federal government to immediately withdraw federal forces and “agree to no further unilateral deployments in U.S. cities" after U.S. President Trump announced he was sending more officers. Plus, the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 tracker counts at 15-and-a quarter-million confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus and nearly 625,000 deaths. And, if all goes well, the Tokyo Olympics will get underway a year from today.