Hunter Biden's Ex-Business Partner Alleges Father Knew About Venture  —  Former vice president says he had no involvement; corporate records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show no role for Joe Biden  —  An ex-business partner of Hunter Biden, in a news conference organized by the Trump campaign …

Debate Takeaways: Trump gets personal, Biden hits on virus  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden met for the second and last time on a debate stage Thursday after a previously scheduled town hall debate was scrapped after the Republican incumbent became …

Man arrested in Kannapolis with van full of guns and explosives, researched killing Joe Biden  —  KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (WBTV) - A man was arrested in Kannapolis with a van full of guns and explosives with plans to carry out an act of terrorism, including trying to assassinate Joe Biden.

Exclusive: ‘Dumb mistake’ exposed Iranian hand behind fake Proud Boys U.S. election emails - sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Government analysts and private sector investigators were able to rapidly attribute to Iranian hackers a wave of thousands of threatening emails aimed at U.S. voters …

Trump releases unedited “60 Minutes” interview days early  —  President Trump tweeted on Thursday a link to an unedited 38-minute clip of his interview with Lesley Stahl of CBS' “60 Minutes” — days before its planned Sunday airdate.  —  Why it matters: Trump, who threatened yesterday to release the clip …

Bernie Sanders makes a play for Biden Labor secretary  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders is hoping to be a part of Joe Biden's potential administration and has expressed a particular interest in becoming Labor secretary, two people familiar with the conversations tell POLITICO.

Jared Kushner floating launch of a new Trump-branded media outlet, GOP sources say.  It's another sign of a looming 2020 defeat. … - Jared Kushner has been talking about starting a Donald Trump-themed news outlet or another media company, perhaps as soon as after the November election …

Trump Campaign Draws Rebuke for Surveilling Philadelphia Voters  —  President Trump's campaign has been videotaping voters at ballot drop boxes, a tactic that could amount to illegal voter intimidation, Pennsylvania's attorney general says.  —  PHILADELPHIA — The Trump campaign …

Judge Barrett is family to me.  Don't confirm her  —  A relative of the Supreme Court nominee speaks out in The.Ink  —  Welcome to The.Ink, my newsletter about money and power, politics and culture.  If you're joining us for the first time, hello!  Click the orange button below to get this in your inbox, free.

No Families, No Children, No Future  —  Here's a fascinating article from New York magazine on the massive gender gap between Trump and Biden supporters.  It contains this eye-popping claim, buried deep down: … David Shor is one of the best data people the Democratic Party people has.

Trump campaign press secretary suspended on Twitter over mail-in voting tweet  —  The Trump campaign accused Twitter of seeking to ‘silence’ the campaign, hours before a presidential debate.  —  Trump 2020 spokesman Gidley on Trump campaign reportedly dwarfed by Biden's in fundraising

Madison Cawthorn's Racist Website  —  A new attack website put up by the Madison Cawthorn campaign includes an explicitly racist broadside against his opponent, Moe Davis (D-NC), for associating himself with people who want to “ruin white males.”  —  For real.

The Debate Guardrails Were a Gift for Trump  —  Though exceeding the standards of the surreal first presidential debate was not necessarily a difficult task, Thursday night's event felt like an accomplishment.  President Trump and Joe Biden engaged in normal-ish back and forth …

Critical Race Theory's Jewish Problem  —  Critical Race Theory has a Jewish problem, and, finally, people are beginning to notice.  “Stop being shocked,” implores Bari Weiss, formerly of the New York Times, writing for the Jewish commentary magazine Tablet.  Stop starting off sentences with “can you believe...?”

Trump issues sweeping order for tens of thousands of career federal employees to lose civil service protections  —  President Trump has fired his biggest broadside yet this week against a federal bureaucracy he has moved to remake with an executive order that would remove job security …

UK Conservatives ponder global trade reboot  —  What kind of international trade role does the UK want — and what can it carry off?  —  LONDON — Post-Brexit Britain must soon decide how active to be in shaping global trade — and it won't be short of advice about how to embrace its new role outside the European Union.

Trump Holds Small Lead in Conservative Kansas, Poll Shows  —  President Trump won Kansas by more than 20 points, but he leads Joe Biden by only seven in a Times/Siena College poll.  The Republican Senate candidate leads his Democratic rival by an even smaller amount, 46 percent to 42.