Pelosi used shuttered San Francisco hair salon for blow-out, owner calls it ‘slap in the face’  —  ‘We have been shut down for so long,’ owner says  —  EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited a San Francisco hair salon on Monday afternoon for a wash and blow-out …

Justice Department zeroing in on longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy  —  Federal prosecutors are preparing to charge longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy in connection with efforts to influence the U.S. government on behalf of foreign interests, according to people familiar with the matter …

Facebook takes down Russian operation that recruited U.S. journalists, amid rising concerns about election misinformation  —  The social media giant acted against a small network of pages and accounts that directed users to a fake left-leaning news site called Peace Data

Pence: “I don't recall being told to be on standby” during Trump's Walter Reed visit  —  Vice President Mike Pence said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday that he does not “recall” being told to be on standby to assume the powers of the presidency if President Trump was put under anesthesia during …

The Trump Administration Is Backing Out of a $647 Million Ventilator Deal After ProPublica Investigated the Price  —  The government overpaid by hundreds of millions for Philips ventilators, says a House investigation spurred by ProPublica reporting.  Now that deal is off and Congress …

Biden Expected to Surpass $300 Million Raised in August, Shattering Record  —  The fund-raising total would exceed previous monthly hauls and is more than double what the former vice president raised in July.  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to report a record-breaking haul of donations for August …

Trump Creates His Own ‘Deep State’  —  The director of national intelligence is ending oral briefings with Congress — a significant step toward eroding oversight and expanding executive overreach.  —  Mr. Sipher, a former chief of station for the C.I.A., worked for more than 27 years in Russia and other parts of Europe and Asia.

Trump's ‘plane loaded with thugs’ rumor matches months-old conspiracy theory  —  The conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump pushed on Monday that a plane “almost completely loaded with thugs” was set to disrupt protests was almost identical to a rumor that went viral on Facebook three months ago.

Biden campaign launches official Animal Crossing: New Horizons yard signs  —  It's the campaign's latest foray into online organizing  —  Starting today, September 1st, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players will be able to deck out their island homes with official Joe Biden yard signs as part …

Senate GOP poised to offer slimmed down COVID-19 relief bill as Mnuchin takes the hot seat in the House  —  The bill is expected to be dismissed by Democrats as inadequate.  —  Capitol Hill — With the collapse of bipartisan coronavirus relief talks, Senate Republicans are looking to introduce …

FEMA Says It Will Stop Paying For Cloth Face Masks For Schools  —  The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it is changing the policy on the personal protective equipment that it will pay for.  Federal officials announced the changes during a call on Tuesday with state and tribal emergency managers …

Trump campaign aide was paid $20,000 a month by Bannon nonprofit linked to alleged fraud  —  Trump campaign's shell game: No reported payments to campaign manager Bill Stepien or drama-prone aide Jason Miller  —  Senior Trump campaign official Jason Miller appears to have been paid about $20,000 …

California lawmaker brings newborn to Assembly floor after being denied proxy vote  —  SACRAMENTO — While remote voting was allowed in the California State Senate on Monday, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, who gave birth in late July, said Assembly leadership denied her request to vote by proxy despite Covid-19 concerns.

Trump has slipped among key groups that backed him in 2016  —  President Trump's support has eroded among key groups of voters who backed him in 2016 — a major reason why he continues to trail former Vice President Joe Biden and a prime motivator for the president's reelection strategy …

D.C. committee recommends stripping the names of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Scott Key and others from city government buildings  —  A committee reporting to D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser recommends renaming dozens of public schools, parks and government buildings in the nation's capital …

BREAKING: Carter Page's FISA Related ‘Woods File’ Docs Disappeared, Was It ‘Malice Or Incompetence’  —  The original Woods file on former campaign advisor Carter Page went missing more than two years ago, and according to sources who spoke to SaraACarter.com, those documents had to be recreated …

Arizona Stands Out From a Mostly Static Presidential Race in Battleground States  —  State-level polling trends reveal little recent change in 2020 contest, but Biden now leads by 10 in Arizona  — Amid unrest in Kenosha, Wis., Biden leads Trump by 9 points, 52% to 43%.

U.S. says it won't join WHO-linked effort to develop, distribute coronavirus vaccine  —  The Trump administration said it will not join a global effort to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a coronavirus vaccine, in part because the World Health Organization is involved …

Totally Real Source Reveals How Trump Discovered the Planeload of Looters  —  Last night, in an interview with Laura Ingraham, President Trump made an astonishing charge.  “We had people get on a plane from a certain city this weekend,” he said.  “And in the plane, it was almost completely loaded …

Trump Stopped Going to Dover AFB To Receive Bodies After Getting Berated On First Visit  —  Vice President Pence attended “dignified transfer” ceremonies for two years by himself after the father of a slain SEAL “rattled” Trump In February 2017.  —  WASHINGTON ― In the world …

My Final Farewell to the Falwells  —  The Hustler publisher, who won a landmark First Amendment legal battle against Jerry Falwell Sr., writes about Jerry Falwell Jr.'s fall from grace—and the Trump of it all.  —  When I heard that Jerry Falwell Jr. had resigned the presidency of Liberty University …

Joe Rogan debuts on Spotify with his most controversial episodes missing  —  Joe Rogan made his debut on Spotify on Tuesday, but apparently not all of his podcast episodes made the cut.  —  Dozens of past episodes with controversial guests are notably absent from the new Joe Rogan Experience channel …

Cop Who Charged Black Senator With ‘Injuring’ Confederate Statues Nurtured A Long Grudge  —  Portsmouth Police Department Sgt. Kevin McGee was under investigation for authoring a heated letter blasting Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas (D) and others.  —  A Portsmouth, Virginia, police sergeant ― …

Biden introduces a powerful new issue for 2020: Social Security  —  You might not have noticed it during his speech in Pittsburgh on Monday, but Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden slipped a big issue into the mix for 2020.  While focusing primarily on President Trump's liability …

Exclusive: Bloomberg group warns Trump will appear to win big on election night  —  A top Democratic data and analytics firm told “Axios on HBO” it's highly likely that President Trump will appear to have won — potentially in a landslide — on election night, even if he ultimately loses when all the votes are counted.

Jesmyn Ward on Her Husband's Death and Grief During COVID-19  —  The acclaimed novelist lost her beloved husband—the father of her children—as COVID-19 swept across the country.  She writes through their story, and her grief.  —  My Beloved died in January.

2020 Election Live Updates: As Trump Visits Kenosha, Hundreds Gather Where Jacob Blake Was Shot  —  The president offered a conspiracy theory about his Democratic challenger and made forgiving comments about the teenager charged in the killings of two protesters.

Trump is trying to grab some of Biden's most valuable supporters.  Here's why.  —  It's too soon to say whether last week's Republican convention made any dent in the polls.  But it did make clear President Donald Trump's chief line of attack going forward: after months …

Postal Service audit finds gaps in timely processing and delivery of election mail  —  The inspector general's review of special and primary elections in seven cities blamed the issues on a lack of management oversight  —  How ready is the U.S. Postal Service to process and deliver election mail on time come November?

Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing |  August 31, 2020  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.  I'd like to begin by saying we've just closed out another month of stock market.  We had the best stock market — Dow — in 36 years.  That's very impressive.

How the Fatal Shooting at a Portland Protest Unfolded  —  We followed the final moments of a man shot and killed in Portland, Ore., as supporters of President Trump clashed with those protesting police violence.  —  The fatal shooting of a far-right group's supporter in Portland, Ore. …