Trump Needs His Own Sister Souljah Moment  —  The president must condemn those responsible for violence and disavow those who act in his name.  Easy, right?  —  I want to make a prediction about the election in November.  —  Here it is: If Joe Biden wins, it will be, in part …

Arizona Stands Out From a Mostly Static Presidential Race in Battleground States  —  State-level polling trends reveal little recent change in 2020 contest, but Biden now leads by 10 in Arizona  — Amid unrest in Kenosha, Wis., Biden leads Trump by 9 points, 52% to 43%.

Exclusive: Bloomberg group warns Trump will appear to win big on election night  —  A top Democratic data and analytics firm told “Axios on HBO” it's highly likely that President Trump will appear to have won — potentially in a landslide — on election night, even if he ultimately loses when all the votes are counted.

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's ‘plane loaded with thugs’ rumor matches months-old conspiracy theory  —  The conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump pushed on Monday that a plane “almost completely loaded with thugs” was set to disrupt protests was almost identical to a rumor that went viral on Facebook three months ago.

DHS Chief Tells Tucker the Feds Are ‘Working On’ Conspiracy 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 …

Liberty Will Investigate University's Operations Under Jerry Falwell Jr.  —  The board of trustees said an independent forensic firm would look into all facets of Liberty's operations, including “financial, real estate and legal matters,” while Mr. Falwell was president.

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.

Biden's GOP endorsements show the cracks in Trump's coalition  —  (CNN)Joe Biden is attracting more crossover endorsements from prominent members of the opposing party than any other presidential candidate from either side in decades.  That doesn't guarantee the former vice president victory in November …

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 …

Was Kyle Rittenhouse's possession of a gun protected by the Second Amendment? … One item really sticks out on the list of charges against Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old from Illinois arrested after two people were shot and killed during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

An unlikely state tightens up  —  Minnesota, which once looked like a vanity project for Donald Trump, is suddenly emerging as a critical test of his effort to turn his campaign around.  —  Interviews with more than a dozen officials and strategists from both parties in recent days depict …

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.

New York City Gambles Big on Reopening Schools: ‘We Are on a Tightrope’  —  Four million masks, 80,000 containers of wipes, a million-plus students: How New York is seeking to become the lone big city to reopen its public schools.  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio walked briskly out the back door …

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” …

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Black Former Franchisees Sue McDonald's Alleging Discrimination  —  Ex-restaurant owners accuse burger company of setting them up for poor results  —  Several dozen former McDonald's Corp. MCD -.07% franchisees sued the burger giant, alleging it unfairly treated Black owners by selling …

Trump campaign aide was paid $20,000 a month by Bannon nonprofit linked to alleged fraud  —  Trump campaign's shell game: No reported payments to campaign manager Bill Stepien or drama-prone aide Jason Miller  —  Senior Trump campaign official Jason Miller appears to have been paid about $20,000 …

The Books Behind the Rage  —  Over the past four years, credentialed academics and public intellectuals published a mountain of books and articles warning of rising authoritarianism and even fascism in the United States—and offering guides on how to resist this political menace.

The Media Fails Its Biggest Trump 2020 Test  —  The national press corps' disastrous obsession with Hillary Clinton's email practices has drawn criticism in the years since the 2016 election, but it was an obvious failure of journalism in real time, too, reflecting professional habits in media …

Trump has slipped among key groups that backed him in 2016  —  President Trump's support has eroded among key groups of voters who backed him in 2016 — a major reason why he continues to trail former Vice President Joe Biden and a prime motivator for the president's reelection strategy …

Biden, Trump Teams Plan for Mid-Crisis Transition  —  Aides to each candidate are quietly planning for a first Biden term or a second one for Trump.  The coronavirus pandemic and shaky economy make the task trickier than usual.  —  WASHINGTON—The twin economic and public health crises facing …

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 …

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 …

WGN America's ‘NewsNation’ looks for viewers who want their news served up opinion-free  —  When entrepreneur Ted Turner first launched CNN in the early 1980s without any big name anchors, one of his credos was that the news would be the star of his then-revolutionary new network.

Axios-Ipsos poll: Most expect quick election results  —  One in three Americans thinks we'll know who won the presidential election on the night of Nov. 3, and six in 10 expect the winner to be announced within a couple of days, our new poll finds.  —  Why it matters: The gap between public expectations …

How Many Must Starve For You To Renounce Corona-Religion?  —  “I wanted to stay put in Colombia to build a better future for my daughter, but we have to go back.”  Those are the words of Nelson Torrelles to Wall Street Journal reporter John Otis.  As Otis reported in the August 31 edition of the Journal …

The Finger in the Dike Election  —  The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return  —  On September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93's passengers defied armed hijackers and fought to take over the cockpit regardless of danger or odds because they realized that certain death was the alternative.

Julia Reed, journalist and author who chronicled Southern foodways, dies at 59  —  Julia Reed, a Mississippi native who wrote about presidential politics and fashion for Vogue before emerging as an irreverent and stylish chronicler of Southern life and food, died Aug. 28 at a hospital in Newport, R.I. She was 59.