Kellyanne Conway to leave the White House at the end of the month, citing the need to focus on her family  —  Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to President Trump and one of his longest-serving aides, is leaving the White House at the end of the month.  —  Conway, whose title is counselor …

Exclusive: Falwell says ‘Fatal Attraction’ threat led to depression  —  Jerry Falwell Jr., suspended as president of Virginia's Christian-focused Liberty University after a string of embarrassing acts, today said that he has suffered depression caused by a former family friend who had an affair …

So You Think New York Is ‘Dead’  —  Mr. Seinfeld is a comedian.  —  When I got my first apartment in Manhattan in the hot summer of 1976, there was no pooper-scooper law, and the streets were covered in dog crap.  —  I signed the rental agreement, walked outside, and my car had been towed.

The Grand Old Meltdown  —  Earlier this month, while speaking via Zoom to a promising group of politically inclined high school students, I was met with an abrupt line of inquiry.  “I'm sorry, but I still don't understand,” said one young man, his pitch a blend of curiosity and exasperation.

Jeff Flake joins over two-dozen former GOP members of Congress to launch ‘Republicans for Biden’  —  Announcement comes on the first day of the Republican National Convention  —  EXCLUSIVE: More than two-dozen former Republican members of Congress threw their support behind a “Republicans for Biden” …

Kenosha emergency curfew in place after police shoot man; video appears to show officer firing several shots into man's back  —  Kenosha police shot a man Sunday evening, setting off unrest in the city after a video appeared to show the officer firing several shots at close range into the man's back.

Revealed: Jared Kushner's Private Channel With Putin's Money Man  —  DIRECT LINE  —  More than a dozen Trump administration officials, current and former, described a clandestine relationship between Jared Kushner and the CEO of a Kremlin sovereign wealth fund.

The enduring mystery: What would Trump do in a second term?  —  As a reality TV star, Donald Trump seized the White House with an unusual slate of Republican pledges: take on China, tear up trade deals, restrict immigration.  But as president, Trump has faced warnings from a long line …

Donald Trump Jr. Is Ready.  But for What, Exactly?  —  Of all the president's children, he has the strongest connection to the politics, voters and online disinformation ecosystem that put his father in the White House.  What will he do with it?  —  To hear more audio stories from publishers …

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Last-minute confusion: Many Republicans still in the dark about convention  —  The majority of Republican politicians and operatives will learn about the details of this week's convention in the same manner most Americans do — by watching it unfold on TV.  —  The lack of information …

How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right  —  Ms. Tufekci, a computer programmer who became a sociologist, sounded an early alarm on the need for protective masks.  It wasn't the first time she was right about something big.  —  When the Centers for Disease Control …

Trump's Handpicked Postal Service Chair Has A Long History Of Voter Suppression  —  Robert Duncan chaired the RNC during the party's unprecedented escalation of voter disenfranchisement efforts in swing states.  —  President Donald Trump's selection for a key Postal Service position …

The Supporters Buoying Trump's Spirits: Boat Owners  —  Parades of seagoing Trump fans have been touted by the president and his campaign in the absence of his signature campaign rallies  —  Trish Willis hasn't returned to her nursing job in Atlanta since the outbreak of Covid-19, and still won't get on an airplane.

How a Ukrainian Oligarch's Companies Got Paycheck Protection Program Loans  —  Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov owns four coal mining operations sprinkled across Appalachia that received loans intended to help small businesses keep workers on payroll during the pandemic.

Mark Meadows dodges questions about Trump's QAnon embrace: 'We don't even know what it is'  —  White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Sunday dodged questions about President Donald Trump's embrace of QAnon days after the president said followers of the conspiracy theory “love our country.”

For Conservatives to Have Any Hope, Trump Has to Lose  —  After what we have seen during the president's first term, any true conservative should be appalled by the prospect of a second.  —  “You're a traitor to the cause.”  —  In one form or another, that's the charge most often …

EXCLUSIVE: Biden aides apologise privately over attack on Linda Sarsour  —  In a private call with community activists, a recording of which was obtained by MEE, Biden campaign officials said statements against Sarsour were an ‘egregious misstep’  —  Top aides to presidential candidate Joe Biden …

Why a Third of Latinos Still Plan to Vote for Trump  —  Entrepreneurial and evangelical, Republican Latinos are a force to be reckoned with this November.  —  The political evolution of Mindy Garcia occurred very slowly, then all at once.  Growing up up a Democrat in California in the 1980s and 1990s …

Biden to ABC's David Muir on raising taxes: ‘No new taxes’ for anyone making less than $400,000  —  Everybody should pay “their fair share,” Biden said.  —  In the first joint interview with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris …

As Census Count Resumes, Doubts About Accuracy Continue to Grow  —  Officials project optimism.  But a chorus of experts says the pandemic and politics could lead to a deeply flawed count.  —  WASHINGTON — With the 2020 census into its final stage, more than one in three people hired as census takers have quit or failed to show up.

Mike Pence hopes four years of subservience to Trump will lift his political future  —  Like many who served in Congress alongside the late John Lewis, then-Rep. Mike Pence made a pilgrimage to Selma, Ala., in 2010 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.”

Manafort's Reward: Sen. Ron Johnson and the Ukraine Conspiracy Investigation: Part II  —  After three years of insisting that unvetted information should never form the basis for an investigation into an active presidential candidate, Republican members of the Senate would never attempt to do such a thing themselves, right?

USPS: House bill would hurt efforts to ‘improve service’  —  The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is voicing concerns that new House legislation addressing changes at the agency would ultimately harm its efforts to improve efficiency and reduce costs in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election.

Endorsement: Save our democracy.  Vote for Joe Biden  —  A republic, Madam, if you can keep it — Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, 1787, when asked what the Constitutional Convention had proposed  —  The question that Franklin answered 233 years ago overshadows every other issue in the presidential election.