How Trump's Billion-Dollar Campaign Lost Its Cash Advantage  —  Five months ago, President Trump's re-election campaign had a huge financial edge over Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s.  The Times conducted an extensive review of how the Trump team spent lavishly to show how that advantage evaporated.

Trump launches unprecedented attack on military leadership he appointed  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump launched an unprecedented public attack against the leadership of the US military on Monday, accusing them of waging wars to boost the profits of defense manufacturing companies.

John Bolton denies claim Trump disparaged fallen American soldiers in France: ‘Simply false’  —  ‘The main issue was whether or not weather conditions permitted the president to go’  —  Former national security adviser John Bolton disputed the main thesis of The Atlantic's recent report alleging …

Why Disney's new ‘Mulan’ is a scandal  —  The most devastating part of “Mulan,” Disney's much-anticipated live-action remake of the 1998 animated film, isn't the story.  It's the credits.  The film retells the ancient Chinese tale of Hua Mulan, a filial daughter who dresses as a man to join the army …

COVID-19 vaccine latest flashpoint in White House campaign  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The prospect of a vaccine to shield Americans from coronavirus infection emerged Monday as a point of contention in the White House race as President Donald Trump accused Democrats of “disparaging” …

Trump Emerges as Inspiration for Germany's Far Right  —  Among German conspiracy theorists, ultranationalists and neo-Nazis, the American president is surfacing as a rallying cry, or even as a potential “liberator.”  —  BERLIN — Just before hundreds of far-right activists recently tried …

Fox undermines Fox  —  For years, Fox News has worked to undermine and discredit the work of other news organizations that have reported damning details about President Trump and his administration.  But on Friday, something unusual happened: The network turned a skeptical eye toward reporting from its own correspondent.

House Oversight Committee will investigate Louis DeJoy following claims he pressured employees to make campaign donations  —  House Democrats are launching an investigation of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and called for his immediate suspension following accusations that he reimbursed former employees …

The Left Secretly Preps for MAGA Violence After Election Day  —  DOOMSDAY SCENARIOS  —  The progressive coalition Fight Back Table has been meeting to game out what happens if Joe Biden doesn't win by a landslide.  It's not pretty.  —  Last week, a coalition of leading progressive groups gathered …

Last two Australian correspondents pulled out of China after five-day diplomatic standoff over national security case  —  The ABC and the Australian Financial Review have rushed their correspondents out of China after police demanded interviews with both journalists, resulting in an extraordinary diplomatic standoff.

US Ambassador to rent Herzliya residence from Adelson  —  The US Embassy may have moved to Jerusalem and Sheldon Adelson is buying the Herzliya home for NIS 300 million but David Friedman will continue living there.  —  Last week “Globes” exclusively revealed that US billionaire Sheldon Adelson …

Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova disappears  —  Activist reportedly seized by masked men and bundled into a van in Minsk  —  Maria Kolesnikova, one of Belarus's main opposition leaders, vanished in Minsk on Monday morning, as the regime of autocratic leader Alexander Lukashenko battles …

A Russian Disinformation Operation Tried to Recruit Me  —  What's weird is that its output—written by real American journalists—hardly looks dangerous at all.  —  On Sept. 1, Larry Krakow, a butcher from Queens, was cutting meat at his job at a mom-and-pop shop on Long Island, when his phone started “dinging like crazy.”

The Tax Cut for the Rich That Democrats Love  —  Why are party leaders fighting to get rid of one surprisingly progressive element of the 2017 tax bill?  —  Mr. Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where Mr. Pulliam is a research analyst.

No, The Government Did Not Break Up A Child Sex Trafficking Ring In Georgia  —  Simple headlines obscure the complex realities of abuse, sex work and the real threats to American children.  —  Human trafficking has been having an eventful summer.  In July, internet sleuths accused online retailer Wayfair …

Workers Reveal Disney Is Covering Up Its COVID Cases  —  LABOR DAY  —  Workers and their worried spouses reveal to The Daily Beast that Disney is not only underreporting its COVID cases but clearing COVID-positive employees to return to work.  —  In early July, the Walt Disney Company reopened parts …

Pence and Harris Vie for Wisconsin as Trump Vents From the White House  —  The unofficial Labor Day kickoff to the fall campaign centered on Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, two pivotal states for both the president and Joseph R. Biden Jr.  —  LA CROSSE, Wis. — For a few hours …

Everyone Knows It's True  —  Donald Trump generates a lot of noise.  He talks.  He tweets.  He is echoed and amplified by a vast claque, on TV and online, made up of Americans and foreigners, humans and bots.  —  Never has he shouted louder than in the days since my colleague Jeffrey Goldberg reported …

In battlegrounds, absentee ballot rejections could triple  —  ATLANTA (AP) — Thousands of absentee ballots get rejected in every presidential election.  This year, that problem could be much worse and potentially pivotal in hotly contested battleground states.

Is Russian Meddling as Dangerous as We Think?  —  The spectre of foreign manipulation looms over the coming election.  But in focussing on the ­tactics of the aggressors we overlook our weaknesses as victims.  —  In the summer of 2017, Nina Jankowicz, a twenty-eight-year-old American …

Trump faces surprising cash crunch  —  Money concerns are very real for President Trump's campaign — an unusual predicament for a sitting president, and one that worries veteran Republican operatives, with Trump so far behind in swing states as the race climaxes.

Records shed light on online harassment of Jamal Khashoggi before his killing  —  A few months before he was killed, dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi witnessed an ominous change in the kind of attention he was getting from his estranged homeland.  —  The usual critiques of his essays …

As season approaches, there's been zero interest in Colin Kaepernick  —  It's Labor Day, the unofficial end of a summer that began unofficially on Memorial Day.  On Memorial Day, George Floyd was murdered.  —  In the aftermath of George Floyd's murder, a sense emerged that Colin Kaepernick …

Trump thinks he'll be better off as things get worse  —  Timothy Snyder is the Levin professor of history at Yale University and the author of “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.”  His newest book, “Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary,” will be published on Sept. 8.