Trump Unravels as Leaks Reveal How Aides Feed Him Crackpot Poll Hopium  —  Donald Trump is reportedly instructing advisers to spend big on midterm ads ... about himself.  Sources leak to The Atlantic that Trump advisers are telling him the real reason the polls look so bad is that voters are unaware of his many stupendous successes.

RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate  —  Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’  —  Newly obtained documents indicate that the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr …

ICE Agent Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight  —  The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant.  —  An immigration officer facing state charges in connection …

ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted  —  A surge in immigration arrests this summer has swept up thousands of people who had not previously been the focus of President Trump's mass deportation campaign.  They included people married to U.S. citizens …

Trump is pulling every lever to reshape U.S. elections … - The effort leaves virtually no part of the election system untouched. … Even measures later blocked in court can create uncertainty and erode trust before Election Day. … - The plan requires states to redesign ballot envelopes …

Trump Says Putin Will Not Be Attacking NATO Territory  —  President Donald Trump said he does not believe Russian President Vladimir Putin will attack NATO members, as tensions rise in Europe over Moscow targeting countries that supply weapons and money to Ukraine.

Grand jury finds DeSantis administration “misappropriated” $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida  —  A state grand jury found the DeSantis administration “misappropriated” taxpayer money when it diverted $10 million from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation …

A former Mike Collins staffer posted KKK and Nazi images.  Some Republicans see a pattern.  —  Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia) is challenging Sen. Jon Ossoff.  The former Collins staffer posted a swastika and shared an image of himself in what appear to be KKK robes.  —  Summary

Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute  —  The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.  —  Brevard County deputy sheriff Michael Fultz resigned from the force …

‘Thin Air,’ Real Money: Donald Trump's Crypto Products Have Left Investors at Least $4.7 Billion Underwater  —  Introduction  —  “I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air,” President Donald Trump tweeted in July 2019.

Greer Suggests US Needs to Consider Bans on Canadian Goods  —  Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade.  Sign up here.  —  The Trump administration's top trade negotiator suggested the US ought to consider banning some Canadian goods, injecting another threat into a trade dispute between Washington and Ottawa.

Obama to Headline Fund-Raiser With Jeffries in New York  —  The top Democrats will gather party donors on Sept. 10, just as Republicans converge in Texas for their unusual midterm convention.  —  Former President Barack Obama will headline a fund-raiser for House Democrats on Sept. 10 …

Trump's Coming Midterm Crashout  —  First Dolly Parton, now Tim Curry.  Not to get all alarmist, but the last year celeb deaths started piling up like this was 2016—and look how that year turned out.  Happy Thursday.  —  Don't miss out on the Good Fight Tour!

Scoop: U.S. close to striking “massive” deal for Venezuelan oil fields  —  The Trump administration is in talks with Venezuela's interim government about taking an ownership stake in the South American country's enormous oil resources, two U.S. officials tell Axios.

Democrats hand Trump one power they spent years fighting  —  Nearly the entire Democratic caucus voted for the package, with only 9 Democrats opposing the deal  —  After raging against a key tool in President Donald Trump's economic arsenal, Senate Democrats quietly green-lit the authority before they left Washington, D.C.

Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform  —  By now you've almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta's platforms.

Uefa prepares criminal complaint against Fifa's Infantino  —  Governing body of European football seeking documents from Joshua Kushner's investment firm  —  European football's governing body Uefa said it is preparing a criminal complaint against Gianni Infantino over the Fifa president's failed plan …

Ratko Mladic, Murderous ‘Butcher of Bosnia,’ Dies at 83  —  A general during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, he was convicted in the killing of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, Europe's deadliest massacre since World War II.  —  Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general whose actions during …

Edwards Mounts His Defense: ‘Poetry Is Not Sexual Misconduct’  —  Embattled North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards sent a 22-page letter to his colleagues defending himself against sexual harassment allegations that led to his decision to not run for reelection in November.

More than 800 missing, including 65 Americans, as Nepal flood deaths mount  —  Rescue teams were searching for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border Thursday after a catastrophic, deadly torrent of floods and mud swept through several communities a day earlier following a glacial collapse.

Secret Service spokesperson is put on leave amid investigation  —  The agency said two other non-law enforcement employees were also suspended in an unspecified misconduct probe.  —  Summary  —  The Secret Service put its chief spokesman and two other non-law enforcement employees …

Venezuelan Lawmakers Advance US-Backed Supreme Court Overhaul  —  Venezuela's National Assembly advanced a plan to restart the selection of Supreme Court justices, potentially marking one of the first concrete results of US-backed political talks aimed at rebuilding democratic institutions.

Pirro's special grand jury probing D.C. schools, city oversight of youth  —  The unusual investigation appears to have a broad scope.  Prosecutors have contacted D.C. Public Schools personnel to question them about truancy and graduation rates.  —  Summary

Former Border Patrol chief claims Trump administration wants him ‘killed’  —  Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino accused the Trump administration of wanting him dead.  —  “Do I think they want me killed?  Absolutely,” Bovino said on The Tucker Carlson Show on Wednesday.

Investigators Say White House Construction Was a Factor in Marine One Incident  —  Preliminary report says change in Marine One take-off location blocked radio communications  —  WASHINGTON—Federal investigators said the temporary relocation of Marine One's landing zone due to White House construction …