White Flight From Trump?  What a Decisive Biden Win Would Look Like  —  Republican structural advantages in the House, the Senate and the Electoral College would be in jeopardy.  —  Recent national polls show that Joe Biden's commanding lead has eroded longstanding demographic divisions …

Trump says he could send as many as 75,000 federal agents to US cities  —  Seattle Mayor: Unsettling Trump is continuing down this path  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump said Thursday that he's willing to send as many as 75,000 federal agents into American cities to quell violent crime, a recent campaign theme for the President.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Delivers a Lesson in Decency on the House Floor  —  One could be forgiven for thinking that rhetorical dynamism long ago vanished from the hallways and chambers of the United States Congress.  It has been a hundred and sixty-four years, for example, since Charles Sumner …

Trump's most important 2016 donor is sitting out 2020  — Robert and Rebekah Mercer ranked among President Donald Trump's most influential backers in 2016.  But they've all but abandoned the embattled president and aren't likely to help him in the home stretch for 2020, five people who know the media-averse Mercers tell Insider.

A Note to Readers  —  These pages won't wilt under cancel-culture pressure.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  We've been gratified this week by the outpouring of support from readers after some 280 of our Wall Street Journal colleagues signed (and someone leaked) a letter to our publisher criticizing the opinion pages.

“Person.  Woman.  Man.  Camera.  TV”: Trump's Mental Health Is a Test for America  —  Person.  Woman.  Man.  Camera.  TV.  Sadly, I suspect I don't need to explain what I'm referring to here.  If you're reading this, you most likely already know what these five words are …

Homeland Security Made False Statements in Fight With N.Y., Officials Admit  —  The surprise admission came as the Trump administration unexpectedly reversed its decision to bar New Yorkers from programs that allow travelers to speed through airports.  —  Homeland Security officials …

The Importance of Reopening America's Schools this Fall  —  As families and policymakers make decisions about their children returning to school, it is important to consider the full spectrum of benefits and risks of both in-person and virtual learning options.

The Future of Nonconformity  —  Where freethinkers go to fight.  —  Like other realms, American intellectual life has been marked by a series of exclusions.  The oldest and vastest was the exclusion of people of color from the commanding institutions of our culture.

Coronavirus clash hands Mitch McConnell his ‘toughest challenge as majority leader’  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has navigated his way out of predicaments before, but internal party divisions over coronavirus aid and an unpopular president may have put him in his toughest jam yet as Republican leader.

8 Big Reasons Election Day 2020 Could Be a Disaster  —  In a campaign year marked by a global pandemic, a recession and a national wave of protests, it's easy to forget that this whole election season began with an absolute debacle when it came to the simple act of voting.

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.”

The 12 most logical picks for Joe Biden's vice president, ranked  —  We are now just eight days from Joe Biden's previously announced target date of Aug. 1 for his vice-presidential pick.  The delayed conventions and other factors could certainly postpone the selection, but we're getting into crunchtime.

COVID hits Florida Capitol in DeSantis' budget office  —  The Office of Policy and Budget employees who had contact with the person who tested positive “have been instructed to quarantine for 14 days from the date of their last exposure with the individual,.”

Trump vs. Biden: Who's Winning the Money Race in Your ZIP Code?  —  Estimated donors by ZIP code, April through June  —  ◄ MORE TRUMP DONORS MORE BIDEN DONORS ►  —  Notes: The map shows which candidate had more individual donors in each ZIP code from April 1, 2020, to June 30, 2020.

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.

New document shows FBI used Trump's candidate briefing to advance Russia probe  —  President Donald Trump's first intelligence briefing as a candidate in August 2016 was led by FBI agents who had just opened an investigation into his team's ties to Russia, according to a newly declassified document obtained by POLITICO.

Judy Shelton, Trump's troubling Federal Reserve nominee, explained  —  She once called for a return to the gold standard.  Senate Republicans may be ready to confirm her anyway.  —  Judy Shelton has been approved by the Senate Banking Committee and seems likely to be confirmed by the full Senate …

No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon's U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public  —  Back  —  TRANSCRIPT  —  U.S. Navy Releases Videos of Unexplained Flying Objects  —  The U.S. Navy has officially published previously released videos showing unexplained objects. … By Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean

Cognitive Test.  Trump.  Biden.  Campaign.  Flashpoint.  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — It doesn't quite have the ring of “Morning in America” and “I Like Ike.”  —  But the phrase “Person.  Woman.  Man.  Camera.  TV.” is getting an unlikely moment in the spotlight as President Donald Trump …

‘A Band-Aid on a bullet wound’: Workers are getting laid off anew as PPP runs out  —  The phone stopped ringing at the Nelsons' auto-body shop in Broomfield, Colo., in March.  —  The normal four-to-six-week wait for customers looking to have dents or bumps fixed on their cars disappeared, leaving the shop silent.

John Lewis' procession to follow Selma to Montgomery route, to be honored at Alabama Capitol  —  Civil rights hero John Lewis will make the journey from Selma to Montgomery one last time.  —  Fifty-five years ago, the Alabama native was beaten by Alabama state troopers as he and others tried to make that trip to demand equal rights.

Always rocky, China-US relations appear at a turning point  —  BEIJING (AP) — Four decades after the U.S. established diplomatic ties with Communist China, the relationship between the two is at a turning point.  —  Tensions have reached new heights on what has always been a rocky road …

Trump is the king of lies  —  President Trump, who constantly and falsely claims superlative achievements in every field of human endeavor, has every right to one historical claim: He is the king of lies.  Trump's presidency has offered up an endless Las Vegas buffet of completely shameless …

This Bank Robber Reinvented Himself as a QAnon Star  —  QAnon conspiracy theorist Tommy Gelati has 230,000 Twitter followers, a huge podcast—and a conviction for ripping $202,000 off a New Jersey lender to pay his gambling debts.  —  Trash-talking QAnon conspiracy theorist Tommy Gelati …

Where the Virus Is Sending People to Hospitals  —  At overflowing hospitals in South Texas, patients wait hours in sweltering ambulances and on recliner beds set up in hallways.  The number of patients intubated in hospital beds in Tampa, Fla., is growing by the day.  In Corpus Christi, Texas, a mobile morgue has arrived.

Defund Teaching About Slavery?  Sen. Tom Cotton Proposes Legislation Attacking The 1619 Project  —  On Thursday, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) introduced new federal legislation that would prohibit public schools from using federal funds to teach the 1619 Project, a popular journalism initiative produced …

Exclusive: More than 1,000 people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others …