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In what were supposed to be his concluding comments after all the senators spoke during a hearing with Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Ron Johnson (R-WI) claimed there was an orchestrated campaign by Democrats to make the Post Office look worse than it is.

The US Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court's recent decision to quash the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, officials said.

President Donald Trump on Friday lost yet another bid to block a ruling on whether Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance's office can subpoena his financial records, CNBC is reporting.

Disgraced former Trump White House political strategist Steve Bannon openly made jokes about stealing money from people who donated to his "We Build the Wall" crowdfunding campaign -- even as prosecutors are alleging that's exactly what he was doing.

U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) stood up for America's seniors, veterans, and working families Friday during her questioning of the Postmaster General. Some say Louis DeJoy is working to delay the mail in an effort to help President Donald Trump win re-election, and in a longer-term strategy, to destabilize the U.S. Postal Service in an effort to privatize it.

Writing in the Houston Chronicle this Friday, the paper's Editorial Board heaped praise on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's DNC speech, saying that his message of optimism and unity "would have risked sounding like empty platitudes at a different time."

This week, former Breitbart News Chairman Steve Bannon became the latest ally of President Donald Trump to face criminal charges when federal prosecutors for the Southern District of New York indicted him for allegedly defrauding donors to the “We Build the Wall” project. Bannon and his associates raised over $25 million in a crowdfunding campaign, but Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss alleges that they didn’t use the money for the construction of a U.S./Mexico border wall like they promised. Never Trump conservative and CNN pundit Amanda Carpenter, in an article published by The Bulwark on August 20, stresses that Bannon’s arrest shouldn’t be viewed as an anomaly, but as a pattern of widespread corruption and criminality in Trumpworld.

Kelli Ward, the Trump-loving chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party, got busted by a local columnist this week for her efforts to distance herself from indicted former Trump official Steve Bannon.

Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) spewed out a string of F-bombs that went out live on TV on Friday morning before he was able to start grilling Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy claims he "had no idea" that mailboxes and mail sorting machines were being removed. "I was made aware when everybody else was made aware," DeJoy says, while claiming they are "not needed."

Yet another ally of President Donald Trump is facing federal criminal charges: the U.S. Department of Justice has indicted former Breitbart News CEO Steve Bannon — who, in 2017, served as chief White House strategist in Trump’s administration — for allegedly defrauding Americans who made donations to crowdfund a U.S./Mexico border wall. Journalist Michael Harriot discusses Bannon’s indictment in a blistering but often humorous op-ed for The Root, stressing that he has a hard time feeling sorry for “racists” and Trump supporters who were allegedly ripped off by a “white nationalist.”

Update:

According to a report from Politico, senior officials in former Joe Biden's campaign for the presidency have already started reaching out and vetting possible candidates to serve in his cabinet should he defeat Donald Trump in November.