The Washington Post reports: President Trump on Thursday sought to clarify remarks in which he suggested voting twice, saying in tweets that he was instead urging those who vote by mail to follow up at their polling place to make sure their mail-in ballots have been counted. During a trip to North Carolina on Wednesday, Trump suggested that those who …

The Christian Post reports: The pastor of a large California church that was fined over $50,000 for holding indoor worship services despite adhering to social distancing guidelines said that even as the county continues to increase penalties, the church will remain open. Jack Trieber, pastor of North Valley Baptist Church in Santa Clara, California, said Tuesday that Santa Clara County …

CBS News reports: Former Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden met on Thursday with the family of Jacob Blake during a trip to Kenosha, Wisconsin, which was roiled by unrest after Blake, who is Black, was shot in the back seven times by a police officer. The Bidens met privately with members of the Blake family in a Milwaukee …

“I mean I will look at the data and I would assume and I’m pretty sure it’s going to be the case that a vaccine would not be approved for the American public unless it was indeed both safe and effective. And I keep emphasizing both safe and effective. If that’s the case, Jim, I would not hesitate for a …

Via Monmouth Polling: The Monmouth University Poll finds a tight contest in the state’s U.S. Senate election. Among registered voters, Republican first-term incumbent Thom Tillis has 45% support and his Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham, an attorney and former state legislator, has 46% support. Other voter support goes to Libertarian Shannon Bray (2%) and Kevin Hayes of the Constitution Party (1%), …

The New York Post reports: President Trump demanded Gov. Andrew Cuomo tell state prosecutors, who he said are “illegally after me,” to investigate the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, as the two continue their feud after the president proposed cutting off federal funding to New York City. Trump ordered the federal government to study the process of cutting off …

Politico reports: With concerns about an Election Day debacle rising in this critical swing state, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf privately convened a group of Philadelphia Democrats recently to underscore the consequences of another vote-counting fiasco like the one that took place in the June primary. The city took more than two weeks to count all of its votes due to …

Nothing you see or hear is real: White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany insisted Thursday that President Trump was not suggesting people “do anything unlawful” when he encouraged voters to test the system by voting both by mail and in person. In an interview on Fox News, McEnany said that Trump was telling voters to “verify” that their mailed ballot …

NPR reports: Another 881,000 people applied for state unemployment benefits last week, the Labor Department says. That’s 130,000 fewer than the previous week. But the report comes with an asterisk. The department just changed the way it adjusts claims data to account for seasonal variation. That should make the reports more accurate in the weeks to come. But it also …

The Hill reports: The House Democratic campaign arm has filed a formal ethics complaint against Republican Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (La.), who shared a video doctored to alter the wording of a question posed by activist Ady Barkan to former Vice President Joe Biden. The complaint filed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Wednesday alleges that Scalise violated the …

From GOP House nominee Laura Loomer: My name is Laura Loomer. I’m a Republican running for Congress in Florida’s 21st Congressional District, home to President and Mrs. Trump. Since September of 2019, the media has been all but silent about my run for Congress. It was an intentional tactic to ignore me and hope that by silencing me on social …

The New York Times reports: Facebook on Thursday moved to clamp down on any confusion about the November election on its service, rolling out a series of changes to limit voter misinformation and to prevent interference from President Trump and other politicians. The social network, in one of its most sweeping sets of election actions, said it planned to bar …

Reuters reports: Nearly 100 Republican and independent leaders will endorse Democrat Joe Biden for president on Thursday, including one-time 2020 Republican presidential candidate Bill Weld and the former Republican governors of Michigan and New Jersey, people involved in the effort told Reuters. The latest Republican-led effort to oppose the re-election of President Donald Trump also includes current and former Republicans …

New York City’s 1010 WINS reports: City Council Speaker Corey Johnson on Wednesday called for the resumption of indoor dining in New York City, saying restaurants in the five boroughs “need to begin planning for the colder months.” In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, Johnson said indoor dining should be allowed “with reduced capacity and clear guidance to ensure social …

The Wall Street Journal reports: U.S. debt has reached its highest level compared to the size of the economy since World War II and is projected to exceed it next year, the result of a giant fiscal response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that federal debt held by the public is projected to reach or …

Forbes reports: Jacob Wohl told Forbes his Facebook and Instagram accounts were disabled Monday night without any warning or explanation. In a statement, a Facebook spokesperson said the company removed Wohl’s accounts for “violating our policy against coordinated inauthentic behavior,” as Wohl has admitted to creating deceptive accounts “to steer the left-wing votes in the primaries to what we feel …

ProPublica reports: It’s not a matter of if a privately built border fence along the shores of the Rio Grande will fail, it’s a matter of when, according to a new engineering report on the troubled project. The report is one of two new studies set to be filed in federal court this week that found numerous deficiencies in the …

The Washington Post reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is cutting ties with the coronavirus testing lab responsible for reporting covid-19 test data to the state’s public database after the lab reported a backlog of nearly 75,000 test results dating back to April. The state Department of Health and the Division of Emergency Management severed its ties to Quest Diagnostics, …

USA Today reports: A state commission selected the Magnolia Flag to be the next flag of Mississippi. Voters will decide in November whether to approve it or restart the process. The commission voted Wednesday to recommend the flag over one other final design that featured a shield with wavy lines representing water. The final designs were selected out of about …

The Hill reports: Former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway warned that there are more “hidden” supporters of President Trump who will boost him during his reelection bid in November. “The person who coined the term, ‘hidden, undercover Trump voter in 2016,’ there are even more of them, and they’re even more committed now, and they’re going to surprise you as …