Louis DeJoy's rise as GOP fundraiser was powered by contributions from company workers who were later reimbursed, former employees say  —  Louis DeJoy's prolific campaign fundraising, which helped position him as a top Republican power broker in North Carolina and ultimately as head …

CBS News Battleground Tracker: National, Wisconsin contests steady amid protests; more think Biden trying to calm situation  —  The presidential horse race remains unchanged by recent protests — Joe Biden still leads President Trump by the same margins nationally and in the battleground state of Wisconsin.

Scoop: Kevin McCarthy warns Trump's war on mail could screw GOP  —  House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is privately encouraging voting by mail and warned President Trump the party could be “screwed” by his fight against mail-in voting.  —  The big picture: “We could lose based on that …

The Atlantic's editor-in-chief says his story about Trump calling vets ‘losers’ is just the beginning  —  New York (CNN Business)Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, said his magazine's story about Trump calling Americans who died in battle “losers” and “suckers,” was just the tip of the iceberg.

Trump Ended 2018 France Trip Having Art Loaded on Air Force One  — President decided he wanted pieces from ambassador's residence  — Painting, bust, figurines flown home to display at White House  —  After Donald Trump's planned trip to a French cemetery for fallen Marines …

Wealthy NYC woman busted in BLM rampage  —  That's rich.  —  One of the Black Lives Matter protesters now facing felony rioting and misdemeanor graffiti charges — after a window-smashing free-for-all in Manhattan — is a wealthy Upper East Sider whose mother is an architect and whose father is a child psychiatrist.

Boris Johnson: Britain will move on if there's no Brexit deal  —  The British prime minister says his government is preparing for no Brexit trade deal.  —  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at a press conference Nov. 29, 2019 in London.  Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images

Trump prepares a new fall offensive: Branding Kamala Harris  —  Kamala Harris is about to get the Trump treatment.  —  President Donald Trump has long excelled at ridiculing opponents and fomenting rivalries among those around him — from contestants on “The Apprentice” to his top aides inside the White House.

Trump says Department of Education will investigate use of 1619 Project in schools  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump is continuing to wage battle against interpretations of history which he claims are un-American.  —  In a Sunday morning tweet, the President said the US Department of Education …

A New Front in America's Pandemic: College Towns  —  The coronavirus is spiking around campuses from Texas to Iowa to North Carolina as students return.  —  IOWA CITY, Iowa — Last month, facing a budget shortfall of at least $75 million because of the pandemic, the University …

In tell-all book, Michael Cohen says Trump hired a ‘Faux-Bama’ during White House run  —  (CNN)Before Donald Trump ever sought the Oval Office, he was preoccupied by its occupant President Barack Obama, publicly questioning his birthplace and privately describing him as “a Manchurian candidate” …

Here's what the media must do to fend off an election-night disaster  —  I learned about the hazards of election night the hard way.  In late 2000, only a year into my job as the Buffalo News's top editor, I had to make the high-anxiety wee-hours decision about a main headline for the paper's first Wednesday morning print editions.

In Final Stretch, Biden Defends Lead Against Trump's Onslaught  —  The president is attempting to overtake his Democratic challenger with a strategy of racial polarization in heavily white Midwestern states, even as Democrats make inroads in the Republican-leaning South and West.

Exclusive — Jake Tapper Attempted to Convince GOP's Sean Parnell to Run in Different District than Against Democrat Conor Lamb  —  CNN anchor Jake Tapper tried to convince Republican Sean Parnell to run in a different congressional district than in Pennsylvania's 17th, where he is currently …

‘Reign of terror’: A summer of police violence in Los Angeles … Los Angeles police officers have continued to kill civilians at alarming rates and under questionable circumstances in the last three months, despite a summer of unprecedented activism and growing political pressure from lawmakers.

Trump deploys YouTube as his secret weapon in 2020  —  In 2016, Donald Trump's campaign cracked the code on Facebook as a campaign tool — gaining an advantage over Hillary Clinton that was little noticed at the time but helped propel him to victory.  —  This time, the president is betting big on YouTube.

Kanye West's Nearly $7 Million Presidential Bid Has Hit Some Legal Snags  —  So far, Kanye West has spent nearly $7 million of his own money on what continues to be one of the most befuddling presidential bids in the history of American politics.  —  An overdue campaign-finance report filed …

He once thought Hillary Clinton and Lady Gaga ate babies.  Now he wants to help people out of QAnon  —  Stephen Ross went from being one of Lady Gaga's “little monsters” in high school to believing she was a cannibal pedophile.  —  The Massachusetts native says he was a sheltered kid with …