- GUESSING GAME GOES FULL THROTTLE: Biden close to picking a running mate, while speakers are announced for DNC convention (cbsnews.com)
- Trump Is Removing Mail Sorting Machines From Post Offices (politicususa.com)
- ‘Listening to experts is elitist’: Idaho Republicans move to strip power from public health officials (rawstory.com)
- Trump Is Driving Millions of American Seniors Into Poverty (dcreport.org)
- Purported ‘conservative news platform’ American Herald is actually run by Trump’s super PAC: report (rawstory.com)
- Judge flatly rejects Trump’s claim that Ukraine emails enjoy ‘executive privilege’ protection: ‘That simply doesn’t cut it’ (alternet.org)
- BUSTED: Racist vaccine hoax pushed by trolls posing as WHO official (rawstory.com)
- White House paid up to $500 million too much for ventilators: Congressional investigators (salon.com)
- Two Georgia police officers under investigation for opening fire on car carrying Black siblings (nydailynews.com)
- Mayor de Blasio airs government takeover of Con Edison in wake of power outages (nydailynews.com)
- NO CLASS: Senior Trump officials state major concerns behind closed doors about the president’s push to reopen public schools (thedailybeast.com)
- Democrats fear Trump will destroy White House records if he loses — but they have a plan to fight back: report (rawstory.com)
- Lawmakers demand removal of Postmaster General DeJoy over ‘nefarious’ efforts to destroy the Postal Service (alternet.org)
- CNN shows damning supercut of Trump’s failed COVID predictions as US passes 5 million infections (rawstory.com)
- Trump facing massive electoral vote wipeout as campaign continues to flounder: MSNBC election analyst (rawstory.com)
Top wire stories
- ‘Unstable’ Trump will unleash ‘a racial grievance campaign unlike we have ever seen’: veteran GOP strategist (rawstory.com)
- New York Comic Con canceled over coronavirus concerns (nydailynews.com)
- Legal experts explain how a GOP senator’s Ukraine probe enabled ‘three channels of Russian disinformation’ (rawstory.com)
- Lincoln Project hammers Trump for looming eviction crisis: ‘He doesn’t give a damn if you lose your house’ (alternet.org)
- COVID-19 returns to New Zealand after 102 days (rawstory.com)
- An Obama Or A Biden Is Scheduled To Close Every Night Of The Democratic Convention (politicususa.com)
- Trump angrily denies trusting Putin over ‘sleazebags’ in US intelligence (rawstory.com)
- ‘I wouldn’t take it’: Ex-Trump official pours cold water on Russia’s purported COVID ‘vaccine’ (rawstory.com)
- Trump abruptly pulled from briefing after Secret Service opens fire outside White House (cbsnews.com)
- Tuesday primary preview: QAnon ally could secure ticket to Congress in safely red Georgia seat (alternet.org)
- Trump aides quickly backpedal to reverse his huge Social Security blunder (rawstory.com)
- Trump again dangerously claims children are ‘essentially immune’ and ‘don’t transfer’ the coronavirus. That’s false. (rawstory.com)
- Hong Kongers defy China, rush to buy pro-democracy newspaper after owner’s arrest (rawstory.com)
- Michael Flynn’s case back in court after Justice Department’s move to drop charges (rawstory.com)
- Belarus election: contested result sparks massive unrest as Europe’s ‘last dictator’ claims victory (alternet.org)
- GOP senator who wanted to abolish Education Dept. now wants to give Betsy DeVos $50 billion (alternet.org)
- Man shot by Secret Service outside the White House was unarmed: CNN law enforcement sources (rawstory.com)
- Joe Walsh reveals the 16 seconds on Fox News that he knew it was worth losing everything over by taking on Trump (rawstory.com)
- California’s top public health official resigns amid questions over coronavirus test data (nydailynews.com)
- ‘Angry racist privileged white man’ caught on video attacking neighbor over property marker (rawstory.com)
- Biden has ‘utterly devastated’ one of Trump’s favorite attack lines — and he did it with the help of Fox News: journalist (rawstory.com)
- CNN assigned bodyguards to a reporter covering hostile Trump rallies (nydailynews.com)
- Former Vice President Joe Biden could pick a running mate at any point this week (cbsnews.com)
- GOP
ComradeSenator Ron Johnson subpoenas FBI director for docs on Russia probe, Bidens (cbsnews.com)
- GOP party chairman who thinks vote-by-mail is ‘fraught with danger’ has voted by mail 22 times (rawstory.com)