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A pro-Trump mob assaulted police officers and stormed the building on Wednesday as Congress convened to officially certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Video and photographic evidence shows the crowd carrying Trump banners and signs promoting unverified claims that the election was “stolen” from the outgoing president, but Trump loyalists baselessly alleged that the real perpetrators may have been disguised anti-fascist activists. “Some of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters,” Rep....

I left Baltimore for all of those reasons, as well as some I don’t remember. I’m not alone. In 1950, Baltimore was home to about 950,000 residents. By 2010, that number plunged to 620,000. The estimates for 2018 hovered around 602,000. That’s not a population loss. That’s an exodus. Baltimore’s population is at its lowest level in 100 years. Anyone who’s ever seen HBO’s The Wire knows why: Baltimore has its own special and very tragic problems....

Trump announced the funding boost during a community safety roundtable attended by local police, city officials and small business owners in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Also in attendance were U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson and Wisconsin Representative Bryan Steil. “We will provide $1 million to the Kenosha law enforcement so that you have some extra money to go out and do what you have to do,” Trump said....

Bailey, a fervent Trump supporter in a deeply conservative district in central Illinois, earned the former president’s endorsement just three days before the Republican primary. And while Trump is poised to claim credit for his candidate’s success, Bailey can attribute his victory to Governor J.B. Pritzker. That’s because Pritzker and other state Democrats made Bailey’s opponent—Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, the former front-runner in the GOP race—a target. This inadvertently gave Bailey a boost among conservative voters while securing the position of a candidate Pritzker is more likely to defeat in the general election....

“Faith and Trust,” the 81-year-old conservative actor wrote alongside a 95-second video that mentioned God multiple times on his Twitter account earlier this week. In the clip, which invoked religion throughout, Oscar-winning Voight urged Americans to re-elect Trump in November, claiming “left-wing behavior” was destroying the nation. But Trump, Voight maintained, will “protect” America and “keep her flame alive.” Trump retweeted the video in the early hours of Sunday morning, adding: “Thank you Jon!...

Mary Trump, who is the daughter of Robert and Donald Trump’s deceased brother Fred Jr., penned Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, which is slated to be published by Simon & Schuster on July 28. Robert Trump’s first lawsuit to block the book failed when Queens County Surrogate Court Judge Peter Kelly threw it out on Thursday, ruling that the president’s brother should have filed suit in New York Supreme Court instead....

The soon-to-be-out-of-office Republican is third favorite among the dozens of betting markets surveyed by the Oddschecker website. President-elect Joe Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, is favorite to win the next election, the odds aggregator said. Biden is in second place, in part because many believe his age makes him unlikely to stand again. He will be 82 in 2024. Trump is now priced at 7-1 (an implied chance of 12....

The economic official made the remark during a Monday morning interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box. Hassett, who previously served as the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers until last June, was brought back as an adviser as the Trump administration addresses the economic impact of the global pandemic. “Right now if you take what happened at the end of the first quarter, we’re getting that first quarter GDP number this week, then you’re looking like it’s pretty likely you get a negative number,” Hassett explained....

During the first presidential debate on Tuesday evening, the president was asked by moderator Chris Wallace to make that condemnation. Instead, he insisted that far-left demonstrators present a greater threat and said the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys should “stand back and stand by.” Although the president and White House press secretary later tried to clarify the remarks and pushed back against criticism, Trump has still not denounced white supremacists....

“I think this is a real miscalculation if Donald Trump somehow thinks that he is going to intimidate or deter Jack Smith from bringing the crimes that are supported by the evidence,” Kirschner said during an appearance on The Legal Breakdown with Brian Tyler Cohen. “I think Donald Trump has got another thing coming.” Kirschner’s comments came during a discussion about a series of Truth Social posts by Trump in which he criticized Smith, who was named a special counsel to oversee two Department of Justice investigations into Trump....

Short note: of the other Power 5 conferences, the ACC, Big 12 and SEC had already moved forward with playing football this Fall. The only missing piece now? The Pac-12. However, longtime Pac-12 stalwarts USC and UCLA have asked local officials to begin playing and practicing. On Wednesday afternoon, Trump praised the Big Ten for reneging a pledge to postpone the season until Spring. The Big Ten will now start its season the weekend of October 23-24, which is a month after the Southeastern Conference starts, and six weeks after the beginning of ACC and Big 12 games....

Trump’ promotion of Putin during the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, got a cool reception among other world leaders. On Monday, the U.S. president said in a press conference he would invite the Russian leader to the next summit in 2020, because “it would be better to have Russia inside the tent than outside the tent.” Poring over the details of Biarritz, and Trump’s sentiment, the program 60 Minutes, which is broadcast on the Kremlin-backed Channel 1, ran a mash-up of Putin playing piano....

On Wednesday, Trump tweeted: “Can’t believe how badly @FoxNews is doing in the ratings. They played right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats, & now are floating in limboland.” Referring to a Fox News contributor, he continued: “Hiring fired @donnabraziIe, and far worse, allowing endless negative and unedited commercials. @FoxNews is dead. Really Sad!” he said. Newsweek has contacted Fox News for comment. Trump did not specify which ratings he was referring to and his claims do not appear to chime with the latest data from Nielsen....

“We’ll remove costly burdens to make cars safer and more affordable,” Trump said, touting his “bold deregulatory campaign.” “You’re talking about a saving of $3,500 on average, per car,” Trump said. “That’s a tremendous saving.” “It’s a difference between $3,500, extra computers put on the engines, and all of the other things that you have to do,” Trump added. “But the cars are much safer. Our cars are much safer....

Trump issued a statement blasting Biden shortly after video emerged that appeared to show the president closing his eyes for a total of around 30 seconds while watching the summit, also known as COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland. The former president insisted that Biden “fell asleep” because he could not bear to hear more about global warming. Trump also took the opportunity to mention a series of other grievances that he has claimed are hoaxes....

blasted the NFL players for kneeling and raising a fist in protest at the preseason games, saying those who fail to stand during the national anthem should be “suspended without pay”. On Thursday, over the course of 12 National Football League (NFL) preseason games, several NFL players took a knee, raised their fists or stayed off the field as the national anthem played. “The NFL players are at it again - taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem....

Some recent polling data suggests that support for Trump among Republicans may be slipping as the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack against the U.S. Capitol has held eight televised hearings outlining their evidence and findings. Many analysts have described the testimony from former Trump administration officials and other GOP officials as “damning” for the former president. Kinzinger, who is one of two Republicans serving on the select committee, spoke to CNN on Friday morning about the latest hearing, which aired in prime time on Thursday evening....

While the former president never mentioned a book by name, Trump appeared to be referring to his new publication Our Journey Together. The book contains over 300 images of Trump’s time as president, and the publisher called it his “first official book since leaving the White House.” “I just did a book, which is very successful, they sold 240,000 copies and we just ordered another 240,000, I guess, or more,” Trump told Dobbs....

“So disgusting to watch Twitter’s so-called ‘Trending’, where sooo many trends are about me, and never a good one. They look for anything they can find, make it as bad as possible, and blow it up, trying to make it trend. Really ridiculous, illegal, and, of course, very unfair!” Trump wrote. It’s unclear who the “they” in Trump’s tweet refers to, or what Trump considers illegal about Twitter’s trending section....

The Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Thursday morning that the second debate between Biden and Trump would be held virtually due to concerns about the novel coronavirus. Trump and multiple White House and campaign officials tested positive for COVID-19 in the days following the first debate on September 29. “I heard that the commission a little while ago changed the debate style, and that’s not acceptable to us,” Trump said in a Thursday morning interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo....