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Joe Biden will need more than a win in November and a Democratic takeover of the Senate if he wants to rival President Donald Trump when it comes to shaping the makeup of the federal courts.

The Supreme Court soon could weigh in again on a fight over President Trump's tax returns with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.

Judge Emmet Sullivan is moving forward with Michael Flynn's criminal case after an appeals court rejected Flynn's bid to have the case quickly dismissed.

The Senate Leadership Fund is on track to have its best election cycle for fundraising since it was formed in 2015.

The Democrats' report says that "a lack of oversight and accountability" may have diverted large chunks of the funding away from those who needed it.

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon and three associates, Timothy Shea, Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato, are accused of defrauding donors to the We Build the Wall group.

Talks between the White House and Democratic leaders broke down last month after the two sides failed to agree on the terms of a Covid-19 relief bill.

The speech was Biden's most direct rebuttal so far of Trump's and the GOP's attacks last week during the virtual Republican National Convention.

Anthony Scaramucci hired President Donald Trump's former body man for political consulting. The work was focused on Scaramucci's SALT conferences.

Flynn, President Trump's first national security advisor, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his talks with a Russian diplomat.

House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said she plans to subpoena DeJoy for documents related to mail delays at the U.S. Postal Service.

Democratic nominee Joe Biden "seems like a good man, but we've got to make sure he's strong and resolute in his views," Leon Cooperman told CNBC.

Biden accused Trump of "fanning the flames of hate and division," encouraging violence and instilling fear to garner support.

Trump will travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday to meet with law enforcement officials in the city days after a Black man, Jacob Blake, was shot in the back seven times by a White police officer and paralyzed

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has told the House and Senate Select Committees on Intelligence that it will no longer give in-person briefings about election security and foreign election interference.

One person was shot and killed late Saturday in Portland, Oregon, as a large caravan of President Donald Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters clashed in the streets, police said.

The contempt resolution being drafted against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is related to "his transparently political misuse of Department resources," Democrats said.

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein had been friends with Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton years before both were separately charged with related sex crimes.

"They both did an excellent job at disqualifying the other" at their respective conventions but neither of them closed the deal, Frank Luntz told CNBC on Friday.

White House senior advisor Jared Kushner said Thursday that the NBA players refusing to play in protest of a recent police shooting are lucky to be rich enough to be "able to take a night off from work."