“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.

The president has for his five most recent trips, including Friday’s, used the real Air Force One built for that purpose. The White House refuses to explain the switch.

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

… In another seismic shift, Cook Political just moved 15 more races in their projected ratings of congressional elections in favor of Democrats.