President Donald Trump has had more than $270 million in debt forgiven since 2010 after he failed to repay his lenders for a Chicago skyscraper development, The New York Times reported Tuesday. An analysis of his tax records by the Times shows that after the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago encountered financial problems,…… MORE
US Postal Service leadership received a sweeping set of orders from a federal judge on Tuesday, laying out steps the Postal Service must take to ensure that ballots are delivered quickly as voters ace absentee voting deadlines. One week from Election Day, Judge Emmet Sullivan of the DC District Court told the Postal Service to…… MORE
President Donald Trump’s campaign website was defaced for a brief period on Tuesday in a hack. A message was posted to the upcoming events page of Donaldjtrump.com that said the world had “had enough” of the “fake news” spread by Trump. “Earlier this evening, the Trump campaign website was defaced and we are working with…… MORE
The White House included ending the coronavirus pandemic on a list of the Trump administration’s science and technology accomplishments, despite nearly half a million Americans tested positive for Covid-19 in just the last week. A White House Office of Science and Technology Policy news release made the claim in announcing a document highlighting the administration’s…… MORE
Pre-election voting for the November election has surpassed half of all ballots cast in the 2016 presidential election with a week left until Election Day. More than 68.5 million Americans have voted so far with seven days to go until November 3, according to a survey of election officials in all 50 states and Washington,…… MORE
The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s order to limit mail-in ballot drop box locations to one per county, a decision that largely affects the Houston and Austin areas. Read the opinion:… MORE
The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s order to limit mail-in ballot drop box locations to one site per county, a decision that largely affects the Houston and Austin areas. The court ruled that Abbott’s order “provides Texas voters more ways to vote in the November 3 election…… MORE
The Trump campaign’s “war room” Twitter account has been serially dishonest, repeatedly taking quotes from former Vice President Joe Biden and other Democrats out of context. The account did it again on Tuesday. In a Tuesday speech in Georgia, Biden, a churchgoing Catholic, quoted from an encyclical published by Pope Francis in early October. In…… MORE
President Donald Trump, who has trailed his Democratic rival Joe Biden in fundraising, has pulled back some of his television advertising in the crucial state of Florida in the final sprint to Election Day, instead tapping his party’s funds to help spread his message across the state. In recent days, Trump’s campaign has reduced its…… MORE
A superintendent in Maine apologized Tuesday after receiving backlash from students for a memo telling staff to not display any “controversial” phrases including “Black Lives Matter” ahead of the election. Scarborough Public Schools District officials sent an email to staff on Monday reminding them not to wear clothing or display items with political or controversial…… MORE
