Trump ‘will do whatever’ he can to ‘help the country’ after FBI raid: ‘Temperature has to be brought down’  —  Trump said his representatives reached out to DOJ to offer to help amid outrage over the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for August 15

Giuliani Is Told He Is a Target of Trump Election Investigation in Georgia  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani, as former President Donald J. Trump's personal lawyer, spearheaded efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power.  —  ATLANTA — Lawyers for Rudolph W. Giuliani have been told that he is a target …

Trump-allied lawyers pursued voting machine data in multiple states, records reveal  —  A team of computer experts directed by lawyers allied with President Donald Trump copied sensitive data from election systems in Georgia as part of a secretive, multistate effort to access voting equipment …

Trump Executive Nears Plea Deal With Manhattan Prosecutors  —  Allen H. Weisselberg, who was charged with participating in a tax scheme, will not cooperate with the district attorney's investigation into Donald J. Trump.  —  Allen H. Weisselberg, a longtime top executive …

Senate G.O.P. Campaign Arm Slashes TV Ad Buys in Three States  —  In a sign that fund-raising trouble is taking a serious toll, a key political committee cancels ad plans in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Race-Based Layoff Scheme at Minneapolis Schools  —  The Minneapolis Public Schools have adopted a race-based layoff provision that violates the Constitution and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.  “A Minneapolis teachers union contract stipulates that white teachers will be laid off or reassigned before …

Mercer County man charged with threats to kill FBI agents after Mar-a-Lago search  —  A Mercer County man threatened to murder FBI agents last week after the bureau's search of Donald Trump's Florida estate, saying “come and get me you piece of [expletive] feds” and “I am going to [expletive] …

Investing in Flow  —  Our nation has a housing crisis.  —  The demographic trends driving America's housing market are impossible to ignore: our country is creating households faster than we're building houses.  Structural shortages in available homes for sale push housing prices higher …

Liz Cheney's political life is likely ending — and just beginning  —  JACKSON, Wyo. — The 2-minute video, meant ostensibly as the closing appeal to voters here, likely served much more as the launching point of a campaign that will last for years to come.  —  “No matter how long we must fight …

Justice Department subpoenas former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann  —  A federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 attack has subpoenaed Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann for documents and testimony, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score  —  Across industries and incomes, more employees are being tracked, recorded and ranked.  What is gained, companies say, is efficiency and accountability.  What is lost?  —  Produced by Aliza Aufrichtig and Rumsey Taylor

Election deniers march toward power in key 2024 battlegrounds  —  GOP nominees who dispute the 2020 results could be positioned to play a critical role in the next presidential election  —  First came Kristina Karamo, a community college instructor from Detroit who claimed without evidence …

The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars  —  Everyone trusted the two guys at Three Arrows Capital.  They knew what they were doing — right?  —  The boat was a beauty of a thing: some 500 tons across 171 feet of glass and steel as white as Santorini.

Exclusive: Inside the Alex Jones jury room: tensions, pizza and ‘lizard people’  —  As the jury in the Alex Jones defamation trial gathered in a conference room in a Texas courthouse on Aug. 5 to decide how much the U.S. conspiracy theorist owed to two parents of a murdered Sandy Hook first-grader …

Longtime GOP insider Cheri Jacobus: America is “not going to recover from Donald Trump”  —  Former Republican strategist says her party can't be salvaged — and if Trump isn't punished, America is “done for”  —  The numerous catastrophes of the Age of Trump could all have been averted, or greatly mitigated.

New York District 10 Primary Poll: Goldman Leads Pack While Niou, Rivera, and Jones Remain Top-Tier Contenders  —  Home Polls New York District 10 Primary Poll: Goldman Leads Pack While Niou, Rivera, and Jones Remain Top-Tier Contenders  —  The final Emerson College Polling/Pix11/The Hill survey …

Schumer Backs Nadler Over Maloney in N.Y. Democratic Primary  —  Senator Chuck Schumer is the first member of the state's congressional delegation to choose a side in the heated primary contest between two Democratic stalwarts.  —  Senator Chuck Schumer, New York's most powerful Democrat in Washington …

Trump's latest eruption underscores the danger of a GOP House  —  Donald Trump spent the weekend raging at the FBI for searching his Mar-a-Lago resort, which he depicted as a “break in” and an “ABUSE,” while charging that the documents recovered there might have been a “plant.”