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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Trump Says Some Really Strange Things.  Republicans Say No Comment, Again.  —  “If the leader comments, I'll be sure to pass it along,” said a spokesman for Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader.  As of Tuesday afternoon, there was nothing to pass along.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

Facebook takes down Russian operation that recruited U.S. journalists, amid rising concerns about election misinformation  —  The social media giant acted against a small network of pages and accounts that directed users to a fake left-leaning news site called Peace Data

D.C. committee recommends stripping the names of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Scott Key and others from city government buildings  —  A committee reporting to D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser recommends renaming dozens of public schools, parks and government buildings in the nation's capital …

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 …

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.

Upper Midwest emerges as most crucial Biden-Trump battleground  —  Last week's Republican convention had just concluded when Joe Biden's top strategists began hearing from worried Democrats.  They told the officials that President Trump's singular focus on a “law and order” message …

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?”

Congressional investigation finds over $1 billion in PPP fraud  —  Over $1 billion in emergency coronavirus aid relief went to companies who “double dipped” and received multiple Paycheck Protection Program loans, in violation of the program's rules, according to a preliminary analysis released …

U.S. says it won't join WHO-linked effort to develop, distribute coronavirus vaccine  —  The Trump administration said it will not join a global effort to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a coronavirus vaccine, in part because the World Health Organization is involved …

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.

Trump is trying to grab some of Biden's most valuable supporters.  Here's why.  —  It's too soon to say whether last week's Republican convention made any dent in the polls.  But it did make clear President Donald Trump's chief line of attack going forward: after months …

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 …

Biden Expected to Surpass $300 Million Raised in August, Shattering Record  —  The fund-raising total would exceed previous monthly hauls and is more than double what the former vice president raised in July.  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to report a record-breaking haul of donations for August …

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 …

Joe Rogan debuts on Spotify with his most controversial episodes missing  —  Joe Rogan made his debut on Spotify on Tuesday, but apparently not all of his podcast episodes made the cut.  —  Dozens of past episodes with controversial guests are notably absent from the new Joe Rogan Experience channel …

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 …

California lawmaker brings newborn to Assembly floor after being denied proxy vote  —  SACRAMENTO — While remote voting was allowed in the California State Senate on Monday, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, who gave birth in late July, said Assembly leadership denied her request to vote by proxy despite Covid-19 concerns.

Statement by FinCEN Regarding Unlawfully Disclosed Suspicious Activity Reports  —  The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is aware that various media outlets intend to publish a series of articles based on unlawfully disclosed Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) …

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 …

The Trump Administration Is Backing Out of a $647 Million Ventilator Deal After ProPublica Investigated the Price  —  The government overpaid by hundreds of millions for Philips ventilators, says a House investigation spurred by ProPublica reporting.  Now that deal is off and Congress …

Trump White House Warns Colleges: Don't Send Your COVID-Infected Students Home!  —  In a call on Monday, top officials on the coronavirus task force made it clear that they realize sending students back to school has created a risk of cascading outbreaks.  —  Top White House officials rang …

Cop Who Charged Black Senator With ‘Injuring’ Confederate Statues Nurtured A Long Grudge  —  Portsmouth Police Department Sgt. Kevin McGee was under investigation for authoring a heated letter blasting Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas (D) and others.  —  A Portsmouth, Virginia, police sergeant ― …