Poll: Trump beats Hillary head-to-head  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton head-to-head, according to a new poll released Friday.  —  The poll by SurveyUSA finds that matched up directly, Trump garners 45 percent to Clinton's 40 percent.

Clintons personally paid State Department staffer to maintain server  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton and her family personally paid a State Department staffer to maintain the private e-mail server she used while heading the agency, according to an official from Clinton's presidential campaign.

At West Point, Annual Pillow Fight Becomes Weaponized  —  For generations, freshmen cadets at the United States Military Academy have marked the end of a grueling summer of training with a huge nighttime pillow fight that is billed as a harmless way to blow off steam and build class spirit.

When does your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job?  —  Can your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job?  This is one of the questions in the Kentucky County Clerk marriage certificate case.  But it also arises in lots of other cases — for instance …

Talk in G.O.P. Turns to a Stop Donald Trump Campaign  —  Quiet conversations have begun in recent weeks among some of the Republican Party's biggest donors and normally competing factions, all aimed at a single question: How can we stop Donald Trump?  —  Republican strategists and donors …

Out with ‘Redskins’ — and everything else!  —  Autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, also is the time for The Post and other sensitivity auditors to get back on — if they will pardon the expression — the warpath against the name of the Washington Redskins.

Farrakhan: The American System Has to Be Taken Down  —  Friday in Cleveland, OH at a “Justice Or Else!” rally for “10.10.15,” the 20th anniversary of The Million Man March gathering being held in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 2015, Louis Farrakhan said for real racial justice to occur …

Hillary Clinton Relying on Southern Primaries to Fend Off Rivals  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign is methodically building a political firewall across the South in hopes of effectively locking up the Democratic nomination in March regardless of any early setbacks in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.

White Boy Rick to be resentenced; prosecutors appeal  —  Richard Wershe Jr., who gained notoriety in the 1980s as a drug dealer in Detroit, won his bid for resentencing.  Known as “White Boy Rick”, Wershe was sentenced to life in prison in 1988 when he was 18.  —  CONNECT

Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit.  —  In April a BMW racing through a fruit market in Foshan in China's Guangdong province knocked down a 2-year-old girl and rolled over her head.  As the girl's grandmother shouted, “Stop!  You've hit a child!” …

Refugees Who Could Be Us  —  WATCHING the horrific images of Syrian refugees struggling toward safety — or in the case of Aylan Kurdi, 3, drowning on that journey — I think of other refugees.  Albert Einstein.  Madeleine Albright.  The Dalai Lama.  —  And my dad.