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President Trump delivered one of the best speeches of his political career Thursday night as he accepted the Republican National Convention’s nomination for a second term, boosting his chances for reelection. The president’s 70-minute speech was highly effective in the sense that he drew clear and arguably persuasive contrasts between himself and former Vice President Joe Biden in many areas, including their broad-based visions for America, the economy, and law enforcement. In a way that was reminiscent of Trump’s positioning during the 2016 campaign, the president made it clear that he is running as an outsider and a non-politician against...

Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Trump, received mail containing a suspicious white powder and has been assigned Secret Service protection, she told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night. "Because of what the press is doing now to me, I have Secret Service protection,” Conway said, citing the way the media has covered her boss as the reason for the threats. “We have packages delivered to my house with white substances. That is a shame.” She did not say whether anyone else in the Trump administration has received similar pieces of mail. David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett,...