White House Blocked C.D.C. From Requiring Masks on Public Transportation  —  The order would have mandated that both passengers and employees wear face coverings on planes, trains, buses and subways and in airports, stations and depots.  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drafted …

2020 Election Live Updates: With Clock Ticking Down, Trump Lashes Out  —  President Trump, down by double digits in national polls, is attacking his enemies and even his aides.  His doctor said the president could return to public engagements tomorrow.  Joe Biden heads to Nevada today.

Election Less Than a Month Away, Trump Leans on Barr and Pompeo for a Lift  —  The secretary of state said he would make Hillary Clinton's emails public, handing the president a weapon to attack his political foes as the attorney general resisted his overtures to prosecute them.

Republicans are finally ready to diss Don  —  For Republicans, fearful of a possible electoral disaster just weeks away, it has become safe at last to dis Donald Trump — or at least to distance themselves from him in unmistakably purposeful ways.  —  A barrage of barbed comments …

South Carolina Debate Canceled After Lindsey Graham Refuses COVID Test  —  The debate cancelation announcement: … Advertisements  —  The only reason for the cancelation of the Senate debate is Lindsey Graham's refusal to be tested for the coronavirus.  —  Either Lindsey Graham knows …

US judge blocks Abbott order limiting ballot drop-off locations  —  A federal judge issued an order Friday night barring enforcement of Gov. Greg Abbott's Oct. 1 proclamation that limited counties to one mail-in ballot drop-off location.  —  U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said Abbott's order placed …

TRUMP ENGINEERED A SUDDEN WINDFALL IN 2016 AS CAMPAIGN FUNDS DWINDLED  —  Tax records expose more than $21 million in highly unusual payments from the Las Vegas hotel Donald Trump owns with Phil Ruffin, routed through other Trump companies and paid out in cash.  —  Donald J. Trump needed money.

The 1619 Chronicles  —  Journalism does better when it writes the first rough draft of history, not the last word on it.  —  If there's one word admirers and critics alike can agree on when it comes to The New York Times's award-winning 1619 Project, it's ambition.  Ambition to reframe America's conversation about race.

Trump personnel office weighs asking appointees to offer their resignations  —  The White House Presidential Personnel Office is considering asking nearly every political appointee in the Trump administration to write and tender provisional letters of resignation right before the election …

9 COVID cases linked to Trump's Bemidji rally; 2 hospitalized, 1 in ICU, state says  —  ST. PAUL — Minnesota's current COVID-19 surge shows no signs of slowing.  The Health Department on Friday, Oct. 9, reported another 1,401 newly confirmed cases and 14 more deaths.  Hospitalization rates continue to trend upward.

Longtime Republican strategists behind the Lincoln Project mounting rogue offensive against Donald Trump  —  Former operatives for John McCain and George W. Bush are calling on Americans to vote for a Democrat in the presidential election.  Sunday, Lesley Stahl reports on the Lincoln Project …

Cyber Command has sought to disrupt the world's largest botnet, hoping to reduce its potential impact on the election  —  In recent weeks, the U.S. military has mounted an operation to temporarily disrupt what is described as the world's largest botnet — one used also to drop ransomware …

Hope Hicks returned to the White House to pull Trump across the finish line.  Then coronavirus hit.  —  When she returned to the White House on March 9 after two years away and a lucrative stint in corporate PR, Hope Hicks was supposed to be a talisman to re-create the magic of President Trump's against-the-odds 2016 campaign.

Royce West won't vote for MJ Hegar, says 'she's had a problem all along with Black folks'  —  State Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, who finished a close second to MJ Hegar in the runoff for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in July, said Friday that he is not voting for Hegar in her bid to unseat Sen. John Cornyn.

Covid isn't why Trump is losing seniors' support.  But it isn't helping him. … The current thinking is that President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are faring so poorly with America's senior voters because of their response to Covid-19 — in particular, the president's severely inadequate actions …

Trump's 11th Hour Campaign Gambit: Give Voters Cash  —  MORE MONEY, LESS PROBLEMS  —  The president ran successfully as a populist in 2016.  But as he tries to recapture the formula, he's running into some hurdles—mainly, his record.  —  Hitting the closing stretch of the election …

Justice Department cancels diversity training, including for immigration judges  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department has suspended all diversity and inclusion training and events for its employees, according to a memo obtained by The Chronicle, which would include judges in San Francisco …

Supreme Court chief justice banished Judge Brad Schimel from his own courtroom after he refused to wear mask  —  Shortly after Waukesha County courts opened to the public in late June, someone complained that Waukesha County Circuit Judge Brad Schimel was not enforcing the mask mandate set …

Sixteen ‘Boogaloo’ Followers Have Been Busted in 7 Days  —  The takedown of the plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was just the tip of the iceberg.  —  A Madison Heights, Michigan, man killed by FBI agents during a still-murky standoff over a weapons warrant.

Regeneron board member and executive sell $1 million in stock after Trump touts treatment  —  A Regeneron executive and one of its directors sold $1 million worth of stocks two days after President Donald Trump announced he was taking their therapeutic, recent filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission reveal.