Ryan Lochte held up at gunpoint in Rio, mother says  —  RIO DE JANEIRO — Ryan Lochte and at least one of his U.S. teammates were held up at gunpoint early Sunday morning, according to the swimmer's mother.  —  Reached by USA TODAY Sports, Ileana Lochte confirmed a report that Lochte was robbed.

Violence erupts after officer-involved shooting  —  A standoff between police and an angry crowd turned violent Saturday night in the hours after a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed an armed suspect during a foot chase on the city's north side.  —  After an hours-long confrontation with officers …

Trump blames ‘disgusting’ media: ‘I would be beating Hillary by 20%’  —  In a series of tweets Sunday, Donald Trump launched a new tirade against the media, calling it “disgusting” and blaming it for his drop in polls.  —  His latest tweet storm first targeted The New York Times …

In Key States, The Trump Campaign Still Lags Badly  —  WASHINGTON — With fewer than three months before Election Day, in the states that matter most, Donald Trump's campaign is still barely operating field offices and running no television ads in key states.

Leon Panetta Says Americans Should ‘Move On’ From Clinton Emails  —  Clinton supporter and former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on the public to “move on” from Hillary Clinton's emails and instead focus on the “real issues.”  —  “It's been investigated, no action has been taken …

I Survived ‘Trump’ Magazine—Barely  —  I had been at Trump magazine for only four months when my first paycheck bounced.  —  We'd heard rumors of the company's financial troubles, but I had no idea how bad it really was until my landlord called me one afternoon to tell me that my rent check hadn't cleared.

How Trump Remixed the Republican ‘Southern Strategy’  —  Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee hired three new staffers to assist with African American outreach.  They will have their work cut out for them.  Donald Trump's average level of black support from four recent national polls …

All the Issues Favor Trump  —  Of course, he doesn't like to talk issues.  —  The Weekly Standard / Gary Locke  —  In the wake of the Democratic convention, some foot-in-mouth comments by Donald Trump, and a poll bounce for Hillary Clinton, much of the political class has decided that the presidential race is all but over.

A Playboy for President  —  IN a different campaign or era, it would have been a race-altering moment; in this one, it was barely a scandal.  There was Melania Trump, the potential first lady of the United States, posing stark naked in '90s-era photos published by the New York Post …

Donald Trump Is Making America Meaner  —  FOREST GROVE, Ore. — ALL across America, in little towns like this one, Donald Trump is mainstreaming hate.  —  This community of Forest Grove, near the farm where I grew up in western Oregon, has historically been a charming, friendly and welcoming community.

Islam Academic: Migrants Want Eurabia, Globalists Using Migrants to Destroy The West  —  A highly regarded researcher and academic has warned that Muslims in Europe view migration as the start of the Islamisation of the continent.  Prof. Abdessamad Belhaj also detailed how globalists …

Hezbollah leader backs Trump's claim that Obama started ISIS  —  The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group agreed with Donald Trump  —  when he said President Obama founded ISIS.  —  “This is an American presidential candidate who is saying this.  What he says is based on facts and documents …

Trashing free trade isn't economics — it's pandering  —  Why does Donald Trump think that renegotiating NAFTA is not the height of economic nonsense?  Why has Hillary Clinton changed from claiming that the Trans-Pacific Partnership is the “gold standard” of trade agreements (which it never was) to now opposing it outright?