Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’  —  When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn't fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn't drive him there.

Barr claims a man collected 1,700 ballots and filled them out as he pleased.  Prosecutors say that's not what happened.  —  In his latest warning about the dangers of mass mail-in voting, Attorney General William P. Barr pointed to a case in Texas that he said highlighted the risk of fraud.

Suspect in Fatal Portland Shooting Is Reported Killed as Officers Move In  —  Michael Forest Reinoehl, an antifa supporter, died when law enforcement went to arrest him.  He was being investigated in the fatal shooting of a member of the far-right group Patriot Prayer.

What's the worst that could happen? … We wanted to know: What's the worst thing that could happen to our country during the presidential election?  President Trump has broken countless norms and ignored countless laws during his time in office, and while my colleagues and I at the Transition …

The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies  —  For the better part of my adult life, every move I've made, every relationship I've formed, has been rooted in the napalm toxic soil of lies.  —  Not just any lies.  —  To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed …

Trump Campaign Running Photo Ads Edited To Make Joe Biden Appear Older  —  Yet again, Trump officials are using deceptively altered imagery to attack the former vice president.  —  President Donald Trump's campaign launched a series of Facebook ads on Thursday featuring a manipulated photo …

7 Officers Suspended as a Black Man's Suffocation Roils Rochester  —  The man, Daniel Prude, who was having a psychotic episode, died in March after police officers placed a mesh hood over his head.  —  ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Seven Rochester police officers were suspended on Thursday …

Cooper Leads for Guv, Tight Senate Race, Prez in Play  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden and Donald Trump are separated by a negligible 2-point margin among all registered voters in North Carolina according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll, while the U.S. Senate race is even tighter.

Former Michigan governor Rick Snyder: I am a Republican vote for Biden  —  Forty-four years ago, I celebrated my 18th birthday at the 1976 Republican National Convention as part of Gerald Ford's national youth group.  At that convention, I had the honor to watch two great leaders in action — Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.

Anti-Trump Lincoln Project to unleash Facebook army to get out the vote for Biden  — The Lincoln Project, a group led by anti-Trump Republicans, will be launching a new initiative on Friday, The Lincoln Project Digital Coalition.  — The plan is to have thousands of Lincoln Project …

Trump ‘Swears on Whatever’ He Never Called Slain Soldiers ‘Losers’  —  PANTS ON FIRE  —  President Trump says he's ready to “swear on whatever” that he never called slain American service members “losers” or dissed Sen. John McCain.  In ate-night tweets on Thursday, the president claimed …

Ann Romney will join Michelle Obama on TV to get out the vote  —  Ann Romney will team up with Michelle Obama on prime-time television to encourage people to vote this fall.  —  The former first lady and Romney — whose husband, Sen. Mitt Romney, lost the 2012 race to former President Barack Obama …

Nate Silver's Latest Shows Biden Is Headed for a Very Bad November  —  Nate Silver, the popular statistician and data geek who publishes his predictions for political outcomes throughout the country has released some new findings for the November Presidential Election and the news for Team Biden isn't great.

Postal Chiefs Warn: Workers' ‘Heroic’ Efforts Won't Save the Vote  —  “Despite the heroic efforts ...the reality is, that's going to be a difficult situation for that voter to have their vote counted,” one official said.  —  The embattled leadership of the U.S. Postal Service warned …

Gardner ‘Flatly Outnumbered’ by Independents as He Seeks Re-Election in Colorado Senate Race  —  Hickenlooper holds 29-point lead over GOP incumbent with unaffiliated voters, who make up more than 40% of the state's electorate … Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner has a math problem.

Netanyahu Privately Condoned U.S. Plan to Sell Arms to U.A.E., Officials Say  —  The package being pushed by the Trump White House — which could shift the military balance in the Middle East — includes an electronic warfare plane, the EA-18G Growler.  —  WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …

Covid-19 Live Updates: Trump Administration Vaccine Chief Casts Doubt on Vaccine by Election Day  —  The New York Times surveyed more than 1,500 colleges and found that over two-thirds have reported at least one case.  Madrid's leader said it was “probable that all children would get infected, one way or another.”

Trump Went to Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, and Fred's Widow Is None Too Happy  —  “This man is pathologically ill. Mentally ill.”  —  The Trump campaign did not likely pick Latrobe, Pennsylvania, for Thursday night's rally because it is the hometown of Fred Rogers, beloved icon of children's television.

Justice Dept. Plans to File Antitrust Charges Against Google in Coming Weeks  —  The attorney general is said to have set a deadline over the objections of career lawyers who say they need more time to build the case.  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department plans to bring an antitrust case …

Stock market bloodbath: Dow and Nasdaq plummet in the worst day since June  —  New York (CNN Business)It was a wild day on Wall Street.  The Nasdaq Composite (COMP) tumbled nearly 5% and the Dow fell more than 800 points, as investors made a dash for the exits following a streak of record-setting days over the past several weeks.

Trump's Tactic: Sowing Distrust in Whatever Gets in His Way  —  From business competition in New York to President Barack Obama's birthplace to mail-in voting, President Trump's goal has been to undermine the opposition and leave people uncertain about what to believe.

The 2020 Election, a Race in Which Everything Happens and Nothing Matters  —  If a pandemic that has killed nearly two hundred thousand Americans can't significantly hurt Trump's support, can anything?  —  Does anything matter anymore in American politics?

Seven in 10 new coronavirus cases are emerging in red states  —  For the first time, red counties are seeing as many new cases as blue ones.  —  It's hard to overstate the extent to which the coronavirus pandemic has been saturated with partisan politics.  Simple recommendations like wearing …

Cancel the cancel culture and start listening  —  This should never happen.  Unfortunately, the tragedy that ensued took the lives of two people and inflicted additional heartache and pain on many others.  —  What Kyle Rittenhouse did was wrong.  No one should ever take the law into his or her own hands.

Going Postal  —  A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive  —  THE TWITTERING MACHINE BY RICHARD SEYMOUR.  BROOKLYN, NY: VERSO.  256 PAGES.  $26.  —  I QUIT TWITTER and Instagram in May, in the same manner I leave parties: abruptly, silently, and much later than would have been healthy.

HHS Secretary Azar says Nov. 1 coronavirus vaccine deadline has ‘nothing to do with elections’  — “It has nothing to do with elections.  This has to do with delivering safe, effective vaccines to the American people as quickly as possible and saving people's lives,” Azar said.