N.Y.C. Tenants Say They Were Tricked Into Appearing in R.N.C. Video  —  “I am not a Trump supporter,” one of the tenants said, adding that she was furious that her interview with a government official was used for the convention.  —  It started with an unexpected call last week from Lynne Patton …

Two P.R. Experts at F.D.A. Have Been Ousted After Blood Plasma Fiasco  —  The agency's chief spokeswoman, Emily Miller, was removed from her position just 11 days into the job.  —  Two senior public relations experts advising the Food and Drug Administration have been ousted from their positions …

Rand Paul calls for FBI arrests, investigation into ‘mob’ he believes ‘would have killed us,’ if not for police  —  ‘It was horrific,’ the GOP senator tells ‘Fox & Friends’  —  Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told “Fox & Friends” he believes he would have been killed if not for the police …

President Trump's acceptance speech draws 21.6 million TV viewers, trailing the audience for Biden  —  The final night of the Republican convention, which featured President Trump's acceptance speech from the White House South Lawn, had an average audience of 21.6 million viewers Thursday …

Suburbs are vital, but Donald Trump needs another rural rout to win Wisconsin again  —  It was no fluke a farmer from Wisconsin was featured at the Republican National Convention.  —  Donald Trump won Wisconsin four years ago in small towns and rural counties.

Trump Advisers: He Was ‘Triggered’ by Talk of White Supremacy  —  Two disaffected officials recount a president who simply didn't want to hear things he thought were bad for him.  —  Two former top Homeland Security officials in the Trump administration tell The Daily Beast …

Secret Service copes with coronavirus cases in aftermath of Trump appearances  —  When President Trump gave a speech to a group of sheriffs in Tampa late last month, his decision to travel forced a large contingent of Secret Service agents to head to a state that was then battling one of the worst coronavirus surges in the nation.

“Melania Did.  Not.  Care”: In a Blistering New Book by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Melania Trump Sounds a Lot Like Her Husband  —  Wolkoff's book is remarkable both for its intimacy and for the sheer volume of receipts it contains.  It's also the first real look at what's under Melania Trump's hood …

The Trap The Democrats Walked Right Into  —  If law and order are what this election is about, they will lose it. … It finally happened.  We have lethal battles in the streets between the two tribes of our polarized politics.  This week, a 17-year-old man, Kyle Rittenhouse …

Top general says no role for military in presidential vote  —  Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley testifies during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday, July 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington.  (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Trump willing to sign a $1.3 trillion coronavirus relief bill: Meadows  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is willing to sign a $1.3 trillion coronavirus relief bill, a top Trump aide said on Friday, marking a $300 billion increase from an initial $1 trillion offer from the White House and Senate Republicans.

Top Colorado RNC official spread conspiracy theories and made Islamophobic and sexist comments  —  (CNN)A recently installed Republican National Committee official for the state of Colorado has a history of spreading conspiracies and making sexist and Islamophobic comments.

Facebook Employees Are Outraged At Mark Zuckerberg's Explanations Of How It Handled The Kenosha Violence  —  Frustrated Facebook employees slammed CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday during a companywide meeting, questioning his leadership and decision-making, following a week …

Video shows activists in Kenosha arrested by officers who jumped out of unmarked vehicle  —  A Seattle-based nonprofit group that serves food to protesters said Thursday that several of its members were still in police custody in Kenosha, Wis., after law enforcement officers sprang …

Sources: LeBron James sought out Barack Obama for advice to players  —  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — After walking out of Wednesday's players meeting in support of sitting out NBA's games, LeBron James led a small group of players who turned to perhaps America's biggest basketball fan for advice.

Live Updates: N.B.A. Playoffs to Resume After Jacob Blake Protest  —  The league and its players' union reached an agreement to restart the playoffs on Saturday after a work stoppage following the police shooting of Mr. Blake in Wisconsin.  —  RIGHT NOW The league and the players also announced …

IRS Puts Burden on Companies That Use Trump's Payroll Tax Option  — Companies unlikely to defer taxes they have to pay back  — Taxes would be collected next year unless Congress acts  —  President Donald Trump's move to defer payroll taxes through year-end likely will face resistance …

Ivanka Is an Idiot but Unequivocally the Smartest Trump  —  In the last RNC episode of The New Abnormal, GOP operative Tim Miller makes a hilarious wager about Trump and his family and the trio rate the Trump kids.  —  Trump and everyone in his orbit tell lots of lies and questionable truths …

Controversial organization led by Trump allies has tax-exempt status revoked by IRS  —  Trump ally uses controversial tactic to woo black voters  —  (CNN)A nonprofit organization started by two Trump administration allies that stirred up controversy earlier this year for holding cash giveaways …

Mick Mulvaney's new side gig: A hedge fund betting on D.C.  —  Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's special envoy to Northern Ireland, has a new side gig: He's starting a hedge fund.  —  Mulvaney is launching the fund with the longtime investor Andrew Wessel.  The angle?

Trump's parade of desperate lies reveals one big and awful truth  —  When Donald Trump accepted the presidential nomination from the Republican Party in 2016, he declared to the nation: “I alone can fix it.”  —  Four years later, as he accepted the nomination for a second term on Thursday night …

Merkel laughs off suggestion that she was charmed by Trump  —  BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacted with a smile — and no comment — when a reporter asked if it was true that U.S. President Donald Trump had enchanted her.  —  Richard Grenell, the former U.S. director …

Fox News Host Greg Gutfeld Pulls a 180 on Trump's ‘Very Fine People’ in Charlottesville, Now Calls It a ‘Hoax’  —  Gutfeld was one of the more forceful critics of Trump's equivocating on neo-Nazi marchers, but three years later he's all-in on defending the president.

Rep. Stevens: Biden would make Michigan's auto industry a priority, as he did before  —  When Vice President Mike Pence arrives in Michigan on Friday to tout the ingenuity and resilience of the Michigan economy, he has former Vice President Joe Biden to thank.

This Is How Biden Loses  —  Here is a prediction about the November election: If Donald Trump wins, in a trustworthy vote, what's happening this week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will be one reason.  Maybe the reason.  And yet Joe Biden has it in his power to spare the country a second Trump term.

Feds gripe about wall backer's rants against prosecution  —  Federal prosecutors are urging a recently indicted border-security advocate to clam up or face the possibility of a gag order limiting his ability to speak out publicly about the criminal case he is facing.

The perfectly logical case for Donald Trump  —  To make America great again, again, you must vote for Donald Trump!  —  If you think things are bad now under Donald Trump, vote for Donald Trump, who will fix things.  The chaos will continue unless you vote for Donald Trump …