Melania Trump used private email accounts while in the White House, says former colleague and friend  —  Melania Trump regularly used a private Trump Organization email account, an email from a MelaniaTrump.com domain, iMessage and the encrypted messaging app, Signal, while in the White House …

Kenosha business owner declines President Trump photo-op, former owner replaces him  —  A Kenosha business owner is accusing President Donald Trump of using his destroyed store for political gain.  —  Tom Gram's century-old camera shop burned to the ground a week ago during the unrest in Uptown Kenosha.

Pelosi used shuttered San Francisco hair salon for blow-out, owner calls it ‘slap in the face’  —  ‘We have been shut down for so long,’ owner says  —  EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited a San Francisco hair salon on Monday afternoon for a wash and blow-out …

Ed Markey defeats Joe Kennedy in Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary  —  Sen. Ed Markey won the Massachusetts Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday evening, fending off a bitter challenge from Rep. Joe Kennedy, AP reports.  —  Why it matters: The power of the Kennedy name …

Pence: “I don't recall being told to be on standby” during Trump's Walter Reed visit  —  Vice President Mike Pence said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday that he does not “recall” being told to be on standby to assume the powers of the presidency if President Trump was put under anesthesia during …

Joe Biden Leads Donald Trump in Latest Grinnell College National Poll  —  If the election were held today, the newest edition of the Grinnell College National Poll shows Joe Biden winning the popular vote in his quest to become to be the 46th President of the United States.

Ernst Suggests Iowa Doctors Falsifying COVID Cases For Money  —  Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to embrace on Monday a thoroughly-discredited QAnon conspiracy theory about U.S. deaths from COVID-19 being a mere fraction of what has been reported.  As the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier wrote …

Justice Department zeroing in on longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy  —  Federal prosecutors are preparing to charge longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy in connection with efforts to influence the U.S. government on behalf of foreign interests, according to people familiar with the matter …

DHS withheld July intelligence bulletin calling out Russian attack on Biden's mental health  —  The Trump campaign has repeatedly engaged in a similar line of attack.  —  In early July the Department of Homeland Security withheld publication of an intelligence bulletin warning law enforcement agencies …

Trump Stopped Going to Dover AFB To Receive Bodies After Getting Berated On First Visit  —  Vice President Pence attended “dignified transfer” ceremonies for two years by himself after the father of a slain SEAL “rattled” Trump In February 2017.  —  WASHINGTON ― In the world …

Biden Plans a Speech Faulting Trump Over Reopening Schools  —  On Wednesday, Joe Biden will seek to put a spotlight on President Trump's handling of the pandemic, particularly when it comes to safely reopening the country's schools.  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr., pressing his argument …

Russian agency created fake leftwing news outlet with fictional editors, Facebook says … The Russian agency that interfered in the 2016 US election created a fake leftwing news publication, staffed it with fake editors with AI-generated photos and hired real freelance reporters as part …

FBI investigates after alarmed pilot tells LAX tower: ‘We just passed a guy in a jet pack’  —  The FBI has launched an investigation after an American Airlines pilot said he saw what appeared to be a man flying with a jet pack Sunday night near Los Angeles International Airport.  —  “Tower, American 1997.

Trump Creates His Own ‘Deep State’  —  The director of national intelligence is ending oral briefings with Congress — a significant step toward eroding oversight and expanding executive overreach.  —  Mr. Sipher, a former chief of station for the C.I.A., worked for more than 27 years in Russia and other parts of Europe and Asia.

New FBI Documents Show What Witnesses In The Mueller Probe Told Federal Investigators About Trump And Russia  —  BuzzFeed News sued the government to get copies of the witness interview summaries that Robert Mueller kept from public view.  Today, we are publishing the 10th installment of what the FBI interview summaries contain.

FEMA Says It Will Stop Paying For Cloth Face Masks For Schools  —  The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it is changing the policy on the personal protective equipment that it will pay for.  Federal officials announced the changes during a call on Tuesday with state and tribal emergency managers …

Donald Trump's Incitements to Violence Have Crossed an Alarming Threshold  —  In December, 2016, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two political scientists at Harvard, published an opinion piece in the Times that posed the question “Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy?”

Trump administration slams proposal to alter historical DC monuments, says mayor should be ‘ashamed’  —  The DC committee called for making changes to some of the city's best-known tourist attractions

U.S. Perceptions of White-Black Relations Sink to New Low  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' already tepid review of relations between White and Black Americans has soured since 2018 and is now the most negative of any year in Gallup's trend since 2001.  The majority of U.S. adults …

Former DHS Official: White House Failed To Take Far-Right Extremism Seriously  —  Audio for this story is unavailable.  —  A former top Department of Homeland Security official who resigned in April says the Trump administration is creating the conditions for domestic extremism to flourish in the United States.

BREAKING: Carter Page's FISA Related ‘Woods File’ Docs Disappeared, Was It ‘Malice Or Incompetence’  —  The original Woods file on former campaign advisor Carter Page went missing more than two years ago, and according to sources who spoke to SaraACarter.com, those documents had to be recreated …

OSP troopers federally deputized amid renewed Portland protest response  —  PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon State Police troopers responding to the ongoing protest-related unrest in Portland have been federally deputized, state police confirm.  —  State police tell KOIN 6 News they're working …

Antifa ‘commander’ cried in ‘fetal position’ after being caught with flamethrower, smoke grenades on way to protest  —  Matthew Banta was previously arrested — and posted bond — after allegedly pointing loaded rifle at cop  —  A Wisconsin man was caught with a flamethrower, smoke grenades …

Democrats Take Aim At Susan Collins' Lobbyist Husband As Maine Race Heats Up  —  The senator backed policies that benefited her husband's consulting business.  Republicans target Sara Gideon's husband in attack ads, too.  —  Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) pushed and voted for policies …