Trump cancels in-person Republican convention in Jacksonville, Florida  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he will no longer hold a large, in-person Republican convention in Jacksonville, Florida, because of the coronavirus but will hold virtual events and still give an acceptance speech.

Mayor of Portland, Oregon, tear gassed by federal agents  —  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland, Oregon, was tear gassed by the U.S. government late Wednesday as he stood at a fence guarding a federal courthouse during another night of protest against the presence of federal agents sent …

Kimberly Guilfoyle under fire for Trump fundraising disarray  —  News that Kimberly Guilfoyle contracted the coronavirus had barely surfaced on July 3 before she hopped on a private flight from Mount Rushmore back to New York with her boyfriend, Donald Trump, Jr.

Fox News Poll: Biden tops Trump in battlegrounds Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania  —  Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania, according to Fox News statewide registered voter surveys.

The problem with Trump's strange denial in his new golf scandal … Some of Donald Trump's scandals are complex and take time to disentangle.  The new British Open scandal is striking in its simplicity.  —  The New York Times reported this week that the president urged his ambassador …

Maine journalists under siege after false accusations from Fox News's Tucker Carlson  —  Two freelance journalists in Maine have sustained abuse and threats after being named by Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday night as part of an effort by the New York Times to do “a story on the location of my family's house.”

Trump knows he's going to lose.  He's already salting the earth behind him.  —  How can you tell President Trump thinks he's going to lose in November?  Because he has already begun salting the earth behind him.  —  And his fellow Republicans are helping by sabotaging key institutions that the next …

Stephen Miller's Grandmother Died of COVID-19.  Her Son Blames the Trump Administration.  —  This month, Stephen Miller, the extremist anti-immigrant Trump adviser who has promoted white nationalist ideas, lost a relative to the coronavirus pandemic, and his uncle tells Mother Jones …

Ocasio-Cortez, Dems assail men's abusive treatment of women  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's outrage over a Republican lawmaker's verbal assault broadened into an extraordinary moment on the House floor Thursday as she and other Democrats assailed a sexist culture of …

Pompeo announces end of ‘blind engagement’ with communist China: ‘Distrust but verify’  —  Pompeo took pains to distinguish the Chinese Communist Party from the Chinese people  —  Declaring at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library that “the old paradigm of blind engagement with China has failed …

School Board Renames Robert E. Lee High School for Late Congressman John Lewis  —  The Fairfax County School Board voted to rename Robert E. Lee High School after the late U.S. Congressman John R. Lewis at its business meeting on July 23.  The new name will be effective for the 2020-21 school year.

Almost 100 Days Out, Democrats Are Favored to Take Back the Senate  —  With just over 100 days until Election Day, the political climate appears dire for Republicans across the board.  President Trump is the decided underdog against former Vice President Joe Biden in our Electoral College ratings …

Ilhan Omar Campaign Mailer Accuses Opponent of Being ‘in the Pocket of Wall Street’ and Only Quotes Jewish Donors by Name  —  The mailer references three Jewish donors, plus “Michael, a donor from Scarsdale, New York.”  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) campaign recently sent out a mail piece ripping …

Facebook ignored racial bias research, employees say  —  In mid-2019, researchers at Facebook began studying a new set of rules proposed for the automated system that Instagram uses to remove accounts for bullying and other infractions.  —  What they found was alarming.

Senate passes bill with plan to change Confederate-named bases over Trump veto threat  —  The Senate on Thursday passed a mammoth defense policy bill that sparked a veto threat from President Trump over its inclusion of a plan to rename bases named after Confederate figures.

Trump repeals fair housing rule, amplifying campaign appeals to racial bias  —  With President Trump facing sagging support in the suburbs, his administration on Thursday targeted an Obama-era affordable housing regulation, the latest in a series of appeals to white voters' fears of crime and declining property values.

Samantha Diaz, Florida Health Care Worker, Dies at 29  —  She left behind three children — two of whom have the novel coronavirus — in the care of her parents.  “Our world came crashing down,” her mother said after Ms. Diaz died of Covid-19.  —  Samantha Diaz, a medical assistant in Florida …

I Was Wrong About Florida's Response to Covid-19  —  I gave Governor Ron DeSantis more credit than he deserved for the low death rate in his state.  —  A little after 11 a.m. each weekday, I receive an email alert from the Miami Herald.  It contains the latest Covid-19 numbers for Florida.

‘Shaking in Their Boots’: Trump Wanted a Portland-Style Offensive in Chicago  —  “If it were up to him, we would return to the old days [of] eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth—or forget about proportionality altogether,” one former administration official says.

No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon's U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public  —  U.S. Navy Releases Videos of Unexplained Flying Objects  —  The U.S. Navy has officially published previously released videos showing unexplained objects.  —  [radio transmission] “Whoa, got it — woo-hoo!”

Former congressman Ozzie Myers, caught in 1970s Abscam sting, has been indicted again — this time for election fraud  —  A former congressman convicted in the 1970s Abscam investigation was charged Thursday with new allegations that he bribed a poll worker to stuff ballot boxes in local elections.

The Harper's ‘Letter,’ cancel culture and the summer that drove a lot of smart people mad  —  This is what was on Thomas Chatterton Wiliams's mind when he decided to write a short letter on the risks to liberalism and open discourse and get some like-minded thinkers to sign on.

State Department Insiders Ask: What Is Susan Pompeo Really Up To?  —  Five years ago, a young Kansan named Jakob Provo had almost gotten a job working for ambitious Congressman Mike Pompeo.  He'd aced the interview, he thought, and he was certainly qualified.

Democrats: Packets sent to Trump allies are part of foreign plot to damage Biden  —  Top congressional Democrats are sounding the alarm about a series of packets mailed to prominent allies of President Donald Trump — material they say is part of a foreign disinformation plot …

Introducing: Nice White Parents … “Nice White Parents” is a new podcast from Serial Productions, brought to you by The New York Times, about the 60-year relationship between white parents and the public school down the block.  —  We know that American public schools do not guarantee each child …

67 current, former prosecutors defend St. Louis prosecutor from attacks in McCloskey gun case  —  Trump, Missouri Republicans have criticized Kim Gardner for filing weapons charges  —  A group of more than 60 current and former state and federal prosecutors signed a statement Monday defending …

Michael Cohen will be released from prison to home confinement, judge rules  —  Avlon: You should be outraged at the muzzling of Cohen  —  New York (CNN)Michael Cohen will be released to home confinement, a judge ruled on Thursday, finding that the government acted in a retaliatory manner …

Despite Trump claim, 12 states say some orders for coronavirus supplies still unfilled  —  Trump claims “zero unfilled requests” but some states await PPE, other supplies.  —  During his first coronavirus press briefing in nearly three months, President Donald Trump said his administration …