Former President Barack Obama on Monday issued his first wave of 2020 down-ballot endorsements and backed more than 100 Democratic candidates with the goal of helping Democrats keep control of the House of Representatives, win a majority of the Senate and win at the state level ahead of redistricting. Obama endorsed 118 Democratic candidates from…… MORE
The House Intelligence Committee has launched an investigation into intelligence activities conducted by the Department of Homeland Security during recent protests around the country, including in Portland, Oregon. In a letter to acting Secretary Chad Wolf and Office of Intelligence and Analysis acting under secretary Horace Jen, the panel’s Democratic chairman Rep. Adam Schiff specifically…… MORE
Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan on Monday overruled an order prohibiting some private schools in the state from conducting on-campus learning for the start of the academic year, including the school attended by President Donald Trump’s youngest son. Hogan said in a statement Monday afternoon that the Montgomery County, Maryland, health officer overstepped his bounds…… MORE
The US Navy distanced itself on Sunday from an incident organized by the privately run Navy SEAL Museum, which is not sponsored the Navy, in which a Colin Kaepernick jersey was worn by a “target” during a military working dog demonstration. In a pair of nearly two-year-old videos that were posted in January but went…… MORE
Merritt Corrigan, the deputy White House liaison at the US Agency for International Development, is no longer with the agency, a spokesperson for the agency said Monday. Corrigan was first reported to have joined the agency in June, according to ProPublica, which noted at the time statements from her on social media bashing America’s “homo-empire”…… MORE
The players associations of the major US professional sports leagues are opposed to what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says is a must-have component of any new stimulus legislation. The executive directors of the NFL, NBA, NHL Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer players associations all signed onto a letter raising concerns about the…… MORE
CNN has received another 428 pages of notes from major witness interviews during former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, including newly released records of what major Trump administration figures — including Jared Kushner and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions — said about the 2016 campaign. This is the ninth time CNN has gotten documents like…… MORE
CNN has received another 428 pages of notes from major witness interviews during former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, including newly released records of what major Trump administration figures including Jared Kushner and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions said about the 2016 campaign. View the documents here: cnn.com/2020/08/03/politics/read-mueller-docs/index.html… MORE
The National Association of the Deaf and five deaf Americans are suing the White House in an attempt to force President Donald Trump and other top officials to have American Sign Language interpreters at Covid-19 briefings. They’ve asked a federal judge to order the White House to add live televised ASL interpretation at all public…… MORE
The US Postal Service definitively said Monday that it had the capacity to handle the added volume of mail-in ballots in November’s general election after President Donald Trump questioned its ability to do so. “The Postal Service has ample capacity to adjust our nationwide processing and delivery network to meet projected Election and Political Mail…… MORE
