My Resignation From The Intercept  —  The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.  —  Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept …

How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge  —  One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, a fake “intelligence” document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving former Vice …

EXCLUSIVE: NY Post's ‘Smoking Gun’ Hunter Biden Email 100% Authentic, Forensic Analysis Concludes  —  An email Hunter Biden received in April 2015 from a Burisma executive discussing an introduction to then-Vice President Joe Biden, which lies at the heart of a New York Post investigation …

In Outrageous 2-1 Decision Ignoring Reliance Interests and Rejecting the Purcell Principle, 8th Circuit Panel Orders Segregation of Late Arriving Ballots in Minnesota, With Strong Hints Late Arriving Ballots Will Be Excluded from The Count  —  It is hard to know where to start with this opinion.

Florida And Iowa Races Are Too Close To Call, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Biden Maintains His Lead In Pennsylvania, Has Narrow Lead In Ohio  —  IOWA SENATE: Ernst 48%, Greenfield 46%  —  Less than a week before Election Day 2020, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden …

Miami GOP Mayor Caught Trying to Suppress Voting  —  With the coronavirus keeping seats empty in sports stadiums and arenas around the country, the owners of many of those venues have opened them up as polling locations for the Nov. 3 election to help keep voters socially distant as they cast their ballots.

Walmart Pulls Guns, Ammo Displays in U.S. Stores, Citing Civil Unrest  —  Retailer says move is a safety precaution but customers can still purchase firearms and ammunition  —  Walmart Inc. has removed all guns and ammunition from the sales floors of its U.S. stores this week …

After bitter debate in Georgia, Senator David Perdue cancels third face off with Jon Ossoff.  —  Senator David Perdue of Georgia withdrew on Thursday from the final debate in his tight re-election race, a day after his Democratic challenger, Jon Ossoff, called him a “crook” …

Denialism, Dishonesty, Deflection: The Final Days of the Trump Campaign Have It All  —  The President is ending his reëlection bid with scandals that call into question the legitimacy of next week's vote.  —  No one wants to admit it, but in Washington, D.C., the election might as well be over …

The Pandemic Is in Uncharted Territory  —  The fall surge is rewriting the coronavirus record books across America.  And the numbers are still climbing.  —  The COVID Tracking Project … The United States set a new record for reported cases this week, breaking 500,000 …

A harsh new anti-Trump ad flips the script on his biggest issue  —  For many years, Democratic strategists have generally seen immigration as a tough issue for them — not necessarily because they can't win the argument about it on the merits, but rather because it motivated hardcore Republican voters far more than anyone else.

‘People Are Going To Be Shocked’: Return of the ‘Shy’ Trump Voter?  —  In 2016, pollsters Arie Kapteyn and Robert Cahaly saw Trump coming.  In 2020, they see polls again underestimating his support.  —  Zack Stanton is digital editor of Politico Magazine.

Exclusive: Warren will make case to be Biden's Treasury secretary  —  Warren's move could set up a marquee fight over what will be one of the most consequential Cabinet roles in a Biden administration.  —  While Elizabeth Warren has developed a relationship with Joe Biden …

Michael Moore doesn't believe the polls showing Biden ahead of Trump  —  The presidential election, especially in swing states, is probably much closer than polls predict, according to the liberal film maker  —  Trump supporters don't believe polls, predict reelection ‘landslide’

Heat at Trump rally sends a dozen attendees to the hospital … A crowded Trump rally in steamy Tampa, Florida, on Thursday resulted in 17 attendees needing medical attention, with a dozen being taken to the hospital, fire officials told NBC News.  —  Trump spoke for just under an hour …

COVID-19 Is Killing My People—And No One Seems to Care  —  At half past one on the morning of July 1, my 60th birthday, I awoke shivering.  Since summertime chills are rare in South Texas, I immediately grew concerned.  As the director of public affairs for Hidalgo County …

UPS Finds Mystery Tucker Carlson Package  —  ‘URGENT INVESTIGATION’  —  A spokesman for UPS told The Daily Beast on Thursday that they had located a mysterious packaged that Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested had been deliberately misplaced or intercepted because it contained “damning” materials on the Biden family.

Here Are Thousands Of Documents About Immigrants Who Have Died In ICE Custody  —  Since January 2017, at least four dozen people have died while being held in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  —  Some were old, and some were young.  Some had been in the US for years before being detained …

Emails show how Pompeos mixed personal, official business  —  WASHINGTON — Less than three months after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was sworn in, his son, Nick, reached out to thank State Department officials for a private tour they had given him and his mother, Susan Pompeo, of the agency's in-house museum.

The greatest commandment has guided my politics … I will choose a different way.  My administration will lead a decisive public health response that ramps up free testing so we can trace this virus and curb its spread; eliminates all cost barriers to treatment for COVID-19 …

Wilbur Ross Remained on Chinese Joint Venture Board While Running U.S.-China Trade War  —  Chinese documents show that the U.S. commerce secretary did not successfully step down from all his corporate commitments.  —  Wilbur Ross, an investor-turned-U.S. commerce secretary …

Biden camp slams Facebook as thousands of ads remain blocked in final week  —  Biden's campaign said ads that had previously been approved by the tech giant have been erroneously removed.  —  Thousands of ads from Joe Biden's campaign have been blocked by Facebook, in an effort to limit …

FBI nabs accused neo-Nazis in extremism crackdown in Michigan  —  Detroit — Federal agents on Thursday arrested two men as part of a continuing crackdown on extremism in Michigan three weeks after the FBI said it thwarted a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

State trooper dates Cuomo's daughter, gets transferred close to Canada  —  A state trooper assigned to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's security detail got hot and heavy with one of New York's first daughters — and was soon transferred to a post near the Canadian border, The Post has learned.

Don't Sweat the Polls  —  “I want to feel hopeful about Joe Biden's chances this year, but I just can't,” my neighbor confessed to me, as we stood in line outside a coffee shop.  What had begun as pleasant conversation—dogs, the temperature, clouds—had been pulled, through the vortex known …

New Pebble tapes: 'You aren't held to your promises' in election season, mine exec says  —  The environmental group that captured executives of the Pebble Mine bragging about their sway over Alaska's senators and governor have released new footage from those secretly recorded sessions.

Americans say they're better off, but not due to Trump  —  And yet the same percentage — 56% — say Trump “does not deserve to be reelected, while 43% say he does,” Gallup says.  —  It's an extraordinary disconnect: Americans say they're better off, but they don't give the incumbent president credit.

Wisconsin Republican Party says hackers stole $2.3 million  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hackers stole $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party's account that was being used to help reelect President Donald Trump in the key battleground state, the party's chairman told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Trump's Voter-Suppression Strategy Is a Crisis (Even If It Backfires)  —  The president is trying to win reelection by disenfranchising as many Democrats as he can.  As of this writing, 78 million Americans have already voted, putting the U.S. on pace to witness its highest-turnout election in more than a century.

Justice Dept. Is Said to Quietly Quash Inquiry Into Tamir Rice Killing  —  Supervisors denied civil-rights prosecutors' request to use a grand jury for their investigation into the 2014 shooting of a Black boy by a Cleveland police officer, but did not tell his family.