Twitter changing labeling practices after deceptive videos hit Biden  —  Twitter said Monday it will begin displaying warning labels on shared posts that contain misleading or doctored videos after facing complaints that it failed to do enough to limit the spread of deceptive clips targeting Joe Biden's campaign.

Journalist Quits Kenosha Paper in Protest of Its Jacob Blake Rally Coverage  —  Daniel Thompson, an editor at The Kenosha News, resigned over a headline that highlighted a speaker who made a threat during a peaceful protest.  —  A journalist resigned on Saturday from his job at The Kenosha News …

Trump urges keeping tax returns away from Manhattan's top prosecutor  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urged a federal appeals court on Monday not to let Manhattan's top prosecutor get eight years of his tax returns, saying the handover would cause him irreparable harm.

How Has Donald Trump Survived?  —  DONALD TRUMP V. THE UNITED STATES  —  Inside the Struggle to Stop a President  —  When a Republican-led Senate committee issued a nearly 1,000-page report in mid-August that detailed the prodigious extent of the contacts between Russian officials and members …

Barr's removal of career national security official, weeks before election, raises concerns  —  A little-known office in the Justice Department has lost its long-time chief.  —  Current and former national security officials are raising concerns over Attorney General William Barr's recent decision …

Man under investigation in fatal shooting of right-wing demonstrator in Portland was outside mayor's condo night before with daughter  —  Michael Reinoehl in front of Ted Wheelers residence, August 28, 2020  —  Michael Forest Reinoehl, the 48-year-old man under investigation …

HHS bids $250 million contract meant to ‘defeat despair and inspire hope’ on coronavirus  —  As the presidential election fast approaches, the Department of Health and Human Services is bidding out a more than $250 million contract to a communications firm as it seeks to “defeat despair and inspire hope” …

U.S. Faces A ‘Perfect Storm’ Of Political Violence Heading Into November Election  —  There have been nearly 11,000 demonstrations in the U.S. this summer — as well as a rising tide of state repression and vigilante violence.  —  Law enforcement and other authorities used force while intervening …

White House privately warned states of Covid-19 ‘red zone’ threat, records show  —  Senior Trump administration officials in June privately warned seven states about dangerous coronavirus outbreaks that put them in the highest risk “red zone” while publicly dismissing concerns about a second wave of Covid-19 …

Pence was on standby to ‘take over’ during Trump's unannounced Walter Reed visit, new book reports  —  Washington (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence was put on standby to temporarily assume the powers of the presidency during President Donald Trump's unannounced visit to Walter Reed hospital in November 2019 …

From students to our coach, one last huge hug for Big John Thompson  —  From the front row of the Seattle Kingdome on April 2, 1984, Georgetown students felt like we too were being hugged by John Thompson Jr.  —  First, the huge coach hugged Fred Brown, the hug that brought a great story full circle.

DHS Chief Tells Tucker the Feds Are ‘Working On’ Corruption Charges Against BLM Leaders  —  “Well, this is something that I have talked to [Attorney General William Barr] personally about,” Wolf said.  “I know that they are working on it.”  —  For months now, Fox News host Tucker Carlson …

Twitter deletes claim minimizing coronavirus death toll, which Trump retweeted  —  After President Trump retweeted a claim that discounted the coronavirus death toll in the United States over the weekend, Twitter took down the post that spread false information.

As Trump's popularity slips in latest Military Times poll, more troops say they'll vote for Biden  —  The latest Military Times poll shows a continued decline in active-duty service members' views of President Donald Trump and a slight but significant preference for former Vice President Joe Biden …

A 26-year-old film editor's descent into coronavirus vaccine conspiracy theories  —  It began as a freelance job.  Micah Conrad would wake up midmorning, check his email and begin downloading videos that had arrived while he slept.  He would brew coffee, drinking it on the narrow patio …

After Trump, the reckoning … As voters prepare to pass judgment on Donald Trump's presidency in November, they might want to entertain a few counterfactuals.  Imagine that Russia had annexed Crimea during the Trump years rather than while Obama was president.

Mark Mothersbaugh nearly died from COVID-19.  FaceTiming with his family kept him alive  —  As Mark Mothersbaugh lay in a Cedars-Sinai hospital bed in early June after contracting the novel coronavirus, a ventilator tube snaking into his throat to help him breathe, the Devo cofounder …

How Trump Brought Nazis Into Republican Politics  —  Yesterday, President Trump retweeted a video of a man on a New York subway platform shoving and injuring a white woman.  In normal times, it would have been unfathomable to determine why the president of the United States would take an interest in this case.

It Has Come to This: Ignore the C.D.C.  —  The agency's new guidelines are wrong, so states have to step up on their own to suppress the coronavirus.  —  Harold Varmus is a former director of the National Institutes of Health.  Rajiv Shah is the president of the Rockefeller Foundation.

In Steve Bannon Case, Prosecutors Have ‘Voluminous’ Emails  —  Documents found in email accounts will be used to help link the president's former aide to a fraudulent scheme to build a border wall, the government said.  —  Federal prosecutors have seized “voluminous” emails and other communications …

No, Wisconsin won't make Democrats lose  —  Stuart Stevens is a senior adviser to the Lincoln Project and author of “It Was All A Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump.”  —  Open your window and you can hear the nervous chatter of Democrats across the country worried that the images …

Trump Books Keep Coming, and Readers Can't Stop Buying  —  White House memoirs, journalistic exposés, full-throated defenses of the president: Publishers are producing books for every partisan and wondering if the gravy train ends on Election Day.  —  Since it was released in May …

Melania's ex-friend: Trump family tainted by ‘deceit, deception’  —  “It was amateur hour then, and it's amateur hour now,” said Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, formerly a close friend of Melania Trump.

The director of national intelligence is providing cover for Putin  —  AFTER THE intelligence community briefed members of Congress in late July about threats to the upcoming election, Democrats expressed alarm about what they had learned — and about the fact that the information had not been shared with the American public.

E.P.A. Relaxes Rules Limiting Toxic Waste From Coal Plants  —  The agency weakened Obama-era rules meant to keep metals and other pollution out of rivers and streams, saving industry tens of millions of dollars.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday relaxed strict Obama-era standards …

It's obscene to focus on how violence affects the vote.  But it is our reality.  —  It is natural but more than a little obscene to focus on the electoral implications of political violence.  How do armed skirmishes poll in Maricopa County?  How does arson play in Florida's 13th District?