Kavanaugh tweaks voting opinion after Vermont official asks for correction  —  Law professor cited by Kavanaugh responds  —  (CNN)Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday night tweaked a line in his controversial opinion on Wisconsin mail-in voting this week …

Sen. Loeffler: ‘Not familiar’ with Access Hollywood tape  —  Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday that she will “always” defend President Donald Trump.  —  BUFORD, Ga. — Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday that she doesn't disagree with anything President Donald Trump has said or done.

Tucker Suggests His Hunter Biden Dirt Was Intercepted in the Mail  —  The Fox News star heavily implied that his “confidential documents” on Hunter Biden were stolen as part of a nefarious plot.  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has devoted the lion's share of his airtime recently …

A Statement  —  Why I'm no longer “Anonymous”  —  More than two years ago, I published an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times about Donald Trump's perilous presidency, while I was serving under him.  He responded with a short but telling tweet: “TREASON?”  —  Trump sees personal criticism as subversive.

Trump's Closing Argument on Virus Clashes With Science, and Voters' Lives  —  The president has continued to downplay he severity of the coronavirus and declare before largely maskless crowds that it is vanishing.  The surge in new cases across the country suggests otherwise.

Officials Warn of Cyberattacks on Hospitals as Virus Cases Spike  —  Government officials warned that hackers were seeking to hold American hospitals' data hostage in exchange for ransom payments.  —  Hundreds of American hospitals are being targeted in cyberattacks by the same Russian hackers …

Millions of mail ballots have not been returned as window closes for Postal Service delivery  —  Election officials said many may belong to those who requested them early, then decided to vote in person  —  Amid a record surge in early voting, millions of mail ballots remained unreturned Wednesday …

‘Quick, quick, quick’: Trump rushes McSally at rally as she fights to hold her Senate seat  —  President Donald Trump offered a not-very warm welcome to Sen. Martha McSally on Wednesday at his campaign rally in Arizona, where his fellow Republican is fighting to hold on to her seat.

A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air … Six people get together in a private home, one of whom is infected.  Some 31% of coronavirus outbreaks recorded in Spain are caused by this kind of gathering, mainly between family and friends.

Biden and Trump to tangle in Tampa on Thursday  —  In rare crossing of paths, the two presidential nominees campaign in the same city on the same day  —  Trump, Biden campaigns flood battleground Florida with surrogates  —  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Trump …

Trump confronts his 50 percent problem  —  Donald Trump won the presidency with 46 percent of the popular vote.  His approval rating, according to Gallup, has never hit 50 percent.  He remains under 50 percent in national polling averages.  —  The president's inability to capture a majority …

Facing Gap in Pennsylvania, Trump Camp Tries to Make Voting Harder  —  Trailing in the polls, President Trump and his campaign are pursuing a three-pronged strategy that would effectively suppress the mail-in vote in the critical state of Pennsylvania.  —  PHILADELPHIA — President Trump's campaign …

Trump's COVID Advisers: He's Now Pushing Herd Immunity  —  Scott Atlas, the president's most favored adviser, says it's not true.  But others working on the pandemic say it's merely a game of semantics.  The policy is increasingly clear.  —  Despite publicly downplaying it …

U.S. States Face Biggest Cash Crisis Since the Great Depression  —  The drop in tax revenue has led to a total shortfall expected in the hundreds of billions of dollars—greater than 2019's K-12 education budget for every state combined, or more than twice the amount spent that year on state roads and other transportation infrastructure

Whitmer kidnap plotter also wanted to hang Trump, other politicians, FBI says  —  A Delaware man accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also threatened to hang President Donald Trump and posted a hit list on Facebook targeting other elected leaders, including former President Barack Obama …

Nessel: Capitol officials stalling gun ban are ‘cowards’  —  Attorney General Dana Nessel has had a lot on her plate during the COVID-19 pandemic.  —  Most recently, her office has been collaborating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Michigan State Police to thwart …

Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country ‘back from the doctors’  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, boasted in mid-April about how the President had cut out the doctors and scientists advising …

Man shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ kills three outside French church, terrorism investigation opened  —  PARIS — Three people were killed in a knife attack outside a church in the southern French city of Nice on Thursday morning, French authorities said.  —  France's national anti-terrorist prosecutor announced …

Jared Kushner, Peggy Noonan and White problems with Black ambition  —  When you're Black in America, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.  You're either shiftless or too ambitious.  If you're too ambitious, you better not for one moment show a sense of comfort in your own skin lest …

‘Helping the president’: HHS official sought to rebrand coronavirus campaign  —  The Trump appointee who steered a $300 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign to “defeat despair” about the coronavirus privately pitched a different theme last month: “Helping the President will Help the Country.”

After 12 Years, Arrest Made in Abduction of Former Times Journalist David Rohde  —  A former Taliban commander was arrested in the November 2008 kidnapping of Mr. Rohde and two others in Afghanistan.  He was brought to the United States to face charges.  —  Twelve years after a New York …

Moscow on the Potomac?  —  A D.C. Council candidate's father has longtime business ties to Russia, worrying some CIA veterans  —  Are the Russians meddling in a Washington D.C. city council election?  —  That's the question that keeps Lauren Wolfe up at night.

Swing Toward The Democrats  —  But most voters still expect Trump to win  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The race for Georgia's electoral votes remains very close, but Joe Biden has gained ground on Donald Trump in the latest Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.

Exclusive: Biden, if elected, would consult allies on future of U.S. tariffs on China - advisers  —  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrat Joe Biden would immediately consult with America's main allies before deciding on the future of U.S. tariffs on China, seeking “collective leverage” …

How polling works and how it's changed since 2016  —  Right before the election four years ago, polls showed Hillary Clinton holding small but shrinking leads in key states.  Donald Trump outperformed those polls to win 304 electoral votes — though with a margin of fewer than 80,000 votes across three states.