John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80  —  Images of his beating at Selma shocked the nation and led to swift passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act; he was called the conscience of the Congress.  —  Representative John Lewis, a son of sharecroppers and an apostle …

DHS Official On Reports Of Federal Officers Detaining Protesters In Portland, Ore.  —  NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with acting Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli about reports of federal officers using unmarked vehicles to detain protesters in Portland, Ore.  —  SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST:

Fox host Chris Wallace fact-checks Trump claim Biden wants to defund police  —  “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace in a new interview shut down President Trump's claim that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is in favor of defunding the police.

Joni Ernst: If Trump has a Supreme Court nominee, Senate should hold hearings  —  U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst said Friday that the Senate should hold hearings on any Supreme Court nomination President Donald Trump might make this year, even if he loses November's election.

White House portraits of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush moved from prominent space to rarely used room  —  WH: Trump's doing a lot of things at once amid case surge  —  (CNN)The official portraits of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were removed from the Grand Foyer …

The FBI's Dossier Deceit  —  New evidence that the bureau knew the Russia info was phony in 2017.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  The Justice Department's release of documents from the Obama Administration's 2016-17 Trump-Russia investigation is beginning to paint a picture, and the more we learn the worse the FBI looks.

Rancor between scientists and Trump allies threatens pandemic response as cases surge  —  This week's remarkable character assault by some top White House advisers on Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's leading infectious-disease expert, signified President Trump's hostility toward medical expertise …

Trump Promotes Caricature of What Conservatives Want  —  A series of events during his White House tenure has made clear that Mr. Trump views the voters he calls “my people” through the lens of what he imagines they like.  —  Standing in the White House colonnade this week …

See You Next Friday: A Farewell Letter  —  The good news is that my last column in this space is not about “cancel culture.”  Well, almost.  I agree with some of the critics that it's a little nuts to say I've just been “canceled,” sent into oblivion and exile for some alleged sin.  I haven't.

White House blocks CDC from testifying on reopening schools next week  —  (CNN)The White House is blocking US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield and other officials from the agency from testifying before a House Education and Labor Committee hearing …

The Great American Crackup is underway  —  In 2018, Bob Woodward recounted then-White House chief of staff John Kelly's view of President Trump.  “He's gone off the rails,” Kelly said.  “We're in Crazytown.”  —  Two years later, it feels as if the entire country resides in the Greater Crazytown Metropolitan Area.

St. Louis Gun Couple to Join Friday Night Trump Campaign Event  —  The St. Louis couple at the center of a firestorm over their armed confrontation with a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters will join an official Trump campaign event on Friday night.  —  Mark and Patricia McCloskey …

Is the free speech debate raging because intellectuals feel stripped of power?  —  In the face of Covid-19, mass unemployment and police brutality, writers and academics are seeking meaning online  —  Over the past few weeks the literary and journalistic scene has exploded in discussion …

Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside  —  Several people involved in the events that took down Twitter this week spoke with The Times.  What might have been a pursuit of Bitcoin spun out of control.  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — A Twitter hacking scheme that targeted political …

The Revolution Is Winning  —  Radicals from the 1960s and 1970s now hold powerful positions in government and academia  —  T  —  his is what the revolution looks like.  —  Weather Underground terrorists, who made no secret of being anti-AmeriKKKan “small-c” communists …