Trump's attacks on the Postal Service deserve sustained, red-alert coverage from the media  —  Listen to President Trump long enough, and, despite his penchant for falsehood, you'll eventually hear some unvarnished truth.  —  That happened Thursday when he stated his intentions clearly in an interview with Fox Business Network.

Senate committee sought investigation of Bannon, raised concerns about Trump family testimony  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee sent a bipartisan letter to the Justice Department asking federal prosecutors to investigate Steve Bannon, a former Trump confidante, for potentially lying …

Say it loud, assimilated and proud: Kamala, me and the Black immigrant American challenge  —  Thursday, President Trump got the brand back together, giving a shoutout to an online article questioning Kamala Harris' legitimacy to ever be president, pointing to an online article that wondered if Harris was a …

It Took Newsweek Three Days and a Staff Revolt to Apologize for Kamala Harris Birtherism Op-Ed  —  The apology nevertheless fell far short of staffers' demands that the magazine retract and remove the supposedly erudite exploration of 19th century Supreme Court rulings.

Saliva-based coronavirus test funded by NBA, NBPA gets emergency authorization from FDA  —  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization on Saturday allowing public use of a saliva-based test for the coronavirus developed at Yale University and funded by the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association.

Trump the distracter brings his act to the DNC  —  In Delaware next week, Joe Biden will take the stage to accept the Democratic nomination for president — a moment of triumph more than 30 years after he first ran for president.  —  On the same day, President Donald Trump will take the stage …

QAnon Promotes Pedo-Ring Conspiracy Theories.  Now They're Stealing Kids.  —  RAMPING UP THE CRAZY  —  The far-right fringe group infamous for promoting nutjob conspiracy theories about pedophile rings has moved on to criminally meddling in child custody cases.  —  Part One of Two Parts:

Harris ‘electrifies’ West Indian voters — and gives Biden a new edge in Florida  —  LAUDERHILL, Fla. — Almost as soon as Kamala Harris became the first woman of Jamaican-Indian descent to be nominated for vice president, a mock White House menu of oxtail and jerk chicken cropped …

A Dictatorship in Belarus Is Shaken  —  It seems that those living under Aleksandr Lukashenko's rule won't abide him forever.  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.  It is separate from the newsroom.

A Florida school district wanted to wait to reopen school buildings.  Gov. Ron DeSantis threatened to cut its funding.  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Florida is making a high-stakes gamble on school openings, with superintendents pressured into decisions that some fear will result in outbreaks of covid-19.

Kanye West Is Trying to Get on the Ballot in Two More Purple States  —  Kanye West's presidential campaign is moving to get on the ballot in two new purple states, Minnesota and Virginia, after filing Friday in Iowa.  —  The three states join Wisconsin, Ohio, and Colorado as competitive states …

Civil rights probe launched after Ga. trooper charged with murder, attorney says  —  The GBI has charged a Georgia State Patrol trooper with murder in a driver's death, and the victim's family attorney says a federal civil rights investigation has been launched.

“The Damnedest Thing I've Ever Seen” Chris Wallace On Biden Campaign Not Putting Any Surrogates On Sunday Shows Before Convention  —  Chris Wallace - Host of Fox News Sunday & Author of “Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days that Changed the World ” …

‘Biden Republicans,’ Don't Turn Back  —  ‘Reagan Democrats’ found a permanent home in the GOP after 1980.  The tables may now turn at last.  —  President Trump is eager to frame this year's election as another 1968, when chaos sent voters fleeing to the candidate who promised law and order.

Michigan Rejects 846 Mailed Ballots ‘Because the Voter Was Dead’  —  Michigan clerks rejected 10,694 mailed ballots during the August 4 primary.  —  Of those, 846 ballots were not accepted “because the voter was dead,” the Detroit News reported.  —  Further, 2,225 ballots were denied …

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow skips Durham probe's guilty plea — despite previous Russia obsession  —  The cable news star has seen her ratings drop since the conclusion of the Mueller investigation — despite millions of potential viewers largely confined to their homes

Former Gov. James Thompson, a giant of Illinois politics, dead at 84  —  Former Gov. James Thompson, shown here at a 2007 news conference, discussing a federal appeals court opinion that upheld Gov. George Ryan's racketeering and fraud conviction.  Thompson died Friday at 84.  AP file photo

Trump's Latest Assault on the Law Comes From George W. Bush's Torture Lawyer  —  Trump will follow the John Yoo playbook in a second term: Doing whatever he wants, the law and Constitution be damned, and daring the courts or Congress to stop him.  —  BEAST INSIDE

Large convention bounces are unlikely In 2020  —  (CNN)The major party political conventions have historically been the turning point in many campaigns.  In 1988, Democrat Michael Dukakis entered the conventions as the frontrunner, only to leave trailing Republican George H.W. Bush.

On the Ground … When Authority Vanishes  —  Chicago's leaders have surrendered to vandals.  —  Politics and law  —  Public safety  —  The Social Order  —  Riding in trucks and U-Hauls, vandals came to downtown Chicago on Sunday.  They jammed streets around the Magnificent Mile …

Newly renovated White House Rose Garden to be unveiled next week  —  (CNN)The newly renovated White House Rose Garden is scheduled to be unveiled on Thursday, just days before the Republican National Convention, a source with knowledge of the planning told CNN.

Kamala Harris Changes the Race While Trump Tells on Himself  —  There were surprises this week that weren't entirely shocking: Ms. Harris joined Joe Biden's ticket and President Trump resurrected birtherism.  Here's what to make of the last week in politics.  —  Welcome to our weekly analysis of the state of the 2020 campaign.