New York Post Published Hunter Biden Report Amid Newsroom Doubts  —  Some reporters withheld their bylines and questioned the credibility of an article that made the tabloid's front page on Wednesday.  —  The New York Post's front-page article about Hunter Biden on Wednesday was written mostly …

Ratcliffe says Hunter Biden laptop, emails ‘not part of some Russian disinformation campaign’  —  ‘There is no intelligence that supports that,’ Director of National Intelligence Ratcliffe says  —  FBI faces calls for answers on Hunter Biden emails  —  Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe …

Trump's den of dissent: Inside the White House task force as coronavirus surges  —  As summer faded into autumn and the novel coronavirus continued to ravage the nation unabated, Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist whose commentary on Fox News led President Trump to recruit him to the White House …

Fauci admits administration has restricted his media appearances, says he's not surprised Trump got COVID  —  In a wide-ranging 60 Minutes interview, Dr. Anthony Fauci expresses his frustration with a Trump campaign ad; explains why, early in the pandemic, masks were largely recommended …

Rolling Stone endorses Biden, calls Trump ‘categorically unfit to be president’  —  Rolling Stone magazine is endorsing Democratic nominee Joe Biden, saying in a piece on Monday that America has lived “under a man categorically unfit to be president” for the last four years.

We Gamed Out The 2020 Election And Found Our Constitution Can Handle The Madness  —  Risks this year include no certain presidential results on election night, and high-stakes struggles up to 79 days afterward, including foreign disinformation, fake news, and big-tech censorship.

2016 sequel?  Trump's old attacks failing to land on Biden  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump stood before a crowd in a state that had once been firmly in his grasp.  There were fewer than three weeks left in the campaign, one reshaped by a virus that has killed more than 215,000 Americans …

The hidden factors that could produce a surprise Trump victory  —  By almost every measure that political operatives, academics and handicappers use to forecast elections, the likely outcome is that Joe Biden will win the White House.  —  Yet two weeks before Election Day …

Meet the journalist who asked Trump if he “regrets all the lying” to the American people  —  Scott talks to S.V. Daté the world traveler who is now White House Correspondent for HuffPost.  Daté is the author of a new book entitled, “The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed …

As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place  —  A nationwide operation of 1,300 local sites publishes coverage that is ordered up by Republican groups and corporate P.R. firms.  —  The instructions were clear: Write an article calling out Sara Gideon …

With Covid-19 Under Control, China's Economy Surges Ahead  —  Exports jumped and local governments engaged in a binge of debt-fueled construction projects.  Even consumer spending is finally recovering.  —  BEIJING — As most of the world still struggles with the coronavirus pandemic …

The Pollster Who Thinks Trump Is Ahead  —  NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he polling aggregator on the website RealClearPolitics shows the margin in polls led by Joe Biden in a blue font and the ones led by Donald Trump in red.  For a while, the battleground states have tended to be uniformly blue …

Black Homeowners Pay $13,464 More on Their Mortgages, Study Says  — The ‘Black tax’ persists because of risk-based loan pricing  — Policy makers can reverse the negative impact, co-author says  —  Black borrowers pay $13,464 more over the life of a home loan, with interest …

Socialists claim massive victory in Bolivia, one year after being ousted  —  LA PAZ, Bolivia — Exit polls issued early Monday showed Bolivia's socialists taking a seemingly insurmountable lead in the country's bitterly fought presidential election, a result that, if confirmed by the official tally …

How Prepared Are These 7 Battlegrounds for the Election?  A Readiness Report  —  Short on money and under enormous pressure, many swing states are still trying to shore up a democratic process challenged daily by court cases, new laws and surges in the coronavirus.

Trump heads into final campaign stretch forced to play defense against Biden  —  The president's team is growing concerned over key battleground states.  —  'I'm seeing more enthusiasm than I saw in 2016': RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel  —  Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel is interviewed on “This Week.”

Trump Will Have $900 Million Of Loans Coming Due In His Second Term If He's Reelected  —  The president would likely have to engage in a series of high-stakes transactions that could produce unfathomable conflicts of interest.  —  Whether or not Donald Trump wins the election …

5 Other Things We'll Learn About Biden After The Election  —  For weeks, Joe Biden has played coy about whether he'd pack the Supreme Court with liberals should he win the White House and Democrats take control of the Senate.  The media has largely ignored the issue, as they have anything that might harm Biden's chances.

McClatchy rejects NRSC web ads on Cal Cunningham affair with little explanation  —  McClatchy, the publisher of several North Carolina newspapers, refused to allow the National Republican Senatorial Committee to place ads that targeted Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham's sexting scandal and affair.

Justice Kavanaugh Unlocked Ways to Fight Foreign Interference  —  He made clear the constitutional rights of foreign actors abroad cannot be violated, because they have no constitutional rights.  —  Ms. Weintraub is a commissioner on the Federal Election Commission.

Donald Trump Is Losing His Touch.  So Is the TV Producer Who Shaped His Image.  —  Mark Burnett helped turn Donald Trump into a national figure with “The Apprentice.”  But since 2016, his impact “has kind of gone bust.”  —  Did you catch Steve Harvey's “Funderdome” on ABC?

Do Originalists Ignore the Reconstruction Amendments?  —  Critics of originalism sometimes claim that originalists focus only on the original 1787 Constitution, while ignoring the Reconstruction amendments, which transformed the Constitution after the Civil War.

Trump launches a frenzied effort to save his brand  —  President Donald Trump is racing to close a yawning gap in the polls in his final, frantic sprint to Election Day — and also rushing to restore a key element of his personal brand.  —  Two weeks since exiting a hospital after being pumped …

California's $100M dialysis battle comes with ancillary benefits for labor union  —  OAKLAND — In initiative-happy California, one set of ads stands out — those involving dialysis clinics, an industry that's historically been a lower-profile player in politics.

Has Trump Drawn the Water for a ‘Republican Blood Bath’?  —  And if he has, what should Biden do with his first term?  —  Bret Stephens: Good morning, Gail.  I was reading on social media that Osama bin Laden is alive and well and that he's living inside Donald Trump's brain.  Care to comment?

Federal judge strikes down Trump plan to slash food stamps for 700,000 unemployed Americans  —  A federal judge on Sunday formally struck down a Trump administration attempt to end food stamp benefits for nearly 700,000 unemployed people, blocking as “arbitrary and capricious” …

Trump Is Losing Ground With White Voters But Gaining Among Black And Hispanic Americans  —  There's a well-known truth in politics: No one group swings an election.  —  But that doesn't mean that the demographic trends bubbling beneath the surface can't have an outsized effect.  Take 2016.

Delaware senator says he's open to packing the Supreme Court  —  The Supreme Court has had nine justices for more than 150 years  —  Joe Biden vows to reveal court-packing position before Election Day  —  A Democratic senator from Delaware said Sunday that he is open to adding more justices …