Trump walks out of news conference after reporter asks him about Veterans Choice lie he's told more than 150 times  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump abruptly ended a Saturday news conference after a reporter challenged him on a lie about veterans health care he has told more than 150 times.

US hits 5 million confirmed virus cases, Europe is amazed  —  ROME (AP) — With confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. hitting 5 million Sunday, by far the highest of any country, the failure of the most powerful nation in the world to contain the scourge has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe.

9 cases of COVID-19 reported at North Paulding High School  —  The Paulding County high school that became infamous for hallways crowded with unmasked students reported a half-dozen students and three staffers in the school with COVID-19, the school district told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Saturday.

‘Christianity Will Have Power’  —  Donald Trump made a promise to white evangelical Christians, whose support can seem mystifying to the outside observer.  —  Photographs and Video by Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber  —  SIOUX CENTER, Iowa — They walked to the sanctuary in the frozen silence before dawn …

Biden leads in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania due to COVID concerns, country's direction — Battleground Tracker poll  —  Late on election night 2016, it was Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that put Donald Trump over the top and into the White House, thanks to late-deciding voters who went his way, and big margins among people who wanted change.

How the Final Stretch of Biden's VP Search Is Playing Out  —  The women who might become Joe Biden's running mate entered their final week in contention without much of an idea of what that week would look like.  —  Each member of the group — thought to include a pair of senators …

The Kanye Con Job  —  In fifteen years practicing election law, I have never seen anything as craven and shameful as the Kanye con job Donald Trump and his sycophants have attempted in Wisconsin.  —  After combing through two challenges to Kanye West's nomination signatures at the behest …

Trump's Go-It-Alone Stimulus Won't Do Much to Lift the Recovery  —  A series of executive actions will provoke lawsuits but is unlikely to stoke faster growth in an economy that has cooled this summer.  —  The executive actions President Trump took on Saturday were pitched as a unilateral jolt for an ailing economy.

Republicans called her videos ‘appalling’ and ‘disgusting.’ But they're doing little to stop her.  —  House GOP leaders raced to disavow a Republican congressional candidate who made racist Facebook videos and embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory.  But less than two months later …

Postal Service emerges as flash point heading into election  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Mail piling up.  Constant attacks from the president.  Cuts to overtime as record numbers of ballots are expected to pass through post offices this fall.  —  The success of the 2020 presidential election …

Latest Research Points to Children Carrying, Transmitting Coronavirus  —  Researchers say new studies and anecdotal reports suggest kids are more vulnerable to the virus than initially suspected  —  Children might be more vulnerable to Covid-19 than once believed, with new research suggesting …

This Company Boasted to Trump About Its Covid-19 Vaccine.  Experts Are Skeptical.  —  Inovio, a Pennsylvania biotech company, has spent years claiming to be on the cusp of important vaccines.  It has never brought one to market.  —  As the deadly new virus spread globally, Inovio Pharmaceuticals …

Boycotted.  Criticized.  But Fox News Leads the Pack in Prime Time.  —  Led by Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, the channel's pro-Trump lineup outranked every network from 8 to 11 p.m. in June and July.  —  In one sense, this has been a difficult period for Fox News …