RNC Speaker Cancelled After Boosting QAnon Conspiracy Theory About Jewish Plot to Enslave the World  —  Mary Ann Mendoza, an “angel mom,” was set to speak on Tuesday night.  But then she took to Twitter to encourage followers to read a thread about the Rothschilds.

Congressman's old social media posts about sex with 15-year-old girls, rape surface in South Florida re-election fight  —  South Florida Congressman Brian Mast joked about rape and referenced sex with 15-year-old girls in old Facebook comments to a friend who is now his campaign manager.

The Republican Coronavirus Strategy: Lie About Everything  —  How do you defend a president who has mismanaged a pandemic that has killed more than 170,000 Americans?  On Monday, the Republican Party gave its answer: You lie.  At its convention, the GOP presented an almost entirely fake history …

Alaska's Attorney General Resigns Hours After We Published “Uncomfortable” Texts He Sent to a Younger Colleague  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Alaska Attorney General Kevin …

Fact-checking the second night of the 2020 Republican National Convention  —  It was another tsunami of untruths on the second night of the Republican National Convention.  Here are 19 claims that caught our attention.  As is our practice, we do not award Pinocchios for a roundup of statements made during convention events.

Aaron Coleman's Ex-Girlfriend Says He Slapped and Choked Her in the Past Year … When Taylor Passow first met Aaron Coleman last November, she was impressed by his drive and his passion for a better world.  “I had never been with somebody who seemed so focused on a career, and how he wanted to change the country.

LeBron James Is A Bigot  —  Time for BLM 101, Volume 4.  BLM 101 is dedicated to educating professional athletes about the negative consequences of the Black Lives Matter movement.  BLM 101 makes every effort to avoid snark and ridicule.  Today that will be difficult.

Focus on Trump's official White House actions as part of Republican convention programming raises Hatch Act concerns  —  The decision by the Republican National Convention to feature President Trump conducting official business inside the White House underscores how he is leveraging the powers …

Pompeo stirs up outrage among some diplomats over speech to RNC  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will make history Tuesday night when he addresses the Republican National Convention, a move that critics say violates a long-standing State Department policy that draws a line between diplomacy and politics.

Jerry Falwell Jr. confirms he has resigned as head of Liberty University  —  Jerry Falwell Jr. on Tuesday confirmed his resignation as president of Liberty University, ending back-to-back Falwell leadership eras at an evangelical institution that is a major power center for conservative Christians and politicians.

‘Obvious lie after obvious lie’: Biden campaign blasts RNC as ‘incoherent charade’  —  WASHINGTON — The Democratic presidential nominee shared media fact checks on Tuesday about the GOP convention on health care, crime and COVID-19.  —  “Last night's incoherent charade was sad, underwhelming …

Trump Has Now Moved $2.3 Million Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Private Business  —  Senior editor at Forbes, covering Donald Trump's business.  —  Donald Trump continued to shift money from his donors to his business last month, as his reelection campaign paid his private companies for rent …

Unmasked Protesters Push Past Police Into Idaho Lawmakers' Session  —  In Boise, the first day of Idaho's special legislative session erupted into chaos before it began.  Dozens of unmasked protesters, some of them armed, shoved their way past state troopers to pack the gallery overlooking the state's House of Representatives.

Whip cracking, drinking and profanity-laced threats: Government office in charge of etiquette plagued by etiquette problems, watchdog finds  —  When the United States hosts foreign leaders and dignitaries, a little-known office at the State Department is in charge of sweating every detail …

EXCLUSIVE: Trump's electoral vulnerabilities were visible in 2018, internal RNC report showed  —  President Trump's dimming reelection prospects were visible before the 2018 midterm elections, according to an internal Republican National Committee report seen by the Washington Examiner.