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.

Michael Cohen's Book Says Trump Held ‘Low Opinions of All Black Folks’  —  The president's former fixer describes him as a mob boss figure who made racist insults, was driven by hatred for President Barack Obama and engaged in underhanded tactics against opponents.

Bay Ridge Couple Forced Off NYC Ferry In Handcuffs Over Refusal To Wear Masks  —  A Brooklyn couple was pulled from a city ferry in handcuffs on Saturday night after refusing the captain's order to wear a mask or leave the boat.  The husband and wife, who were headed home to Bay Ridge …

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.

UK plan to undermine withdrawal treaty threatens Brexit trade talks  —  Internal market bill to override parts of N Ireland protocol as Johnson says sides should move on if no deal by Oct 15  —  The UK is planning new legislation that will override key parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement …

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 …

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 …

Trump and allies ratchet up disinformation efforts in late stage of campaign  —  For President Trump and his allies, it was a week spent spreading doctored and misleading videos.  —  On Aug. 30, the president retweeted footage of a Black man violently pushing a White woman on a subway platform under …

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

Trump's dishonest campaign is entirely on-brand  —  (CNN)From the outset of Donald Trump's presidency, Americans have told pollsters they consider him dishonest.  —  That makes his re-election campaign entirely on-brand.  In ways large and small, in targeted advertising and public remarks …

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 …

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 …

Mnuchin: ‘The president and I believe we should do more stimulus’  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday that he and President Trump are in favor of further stimulus in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.  —  “The president and I believe we should do more stimulus,” Mnuchin said on “Fox News Sunday.”