Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton locked in tight race nationally - CBS/NYT poll  —  With the first debate less than two weeks away, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a tight race for the presidency nationally.  Clinton has just a 2-point edge in a two-way match-up among likely voters.

Powell in leaked email slams Bill Clinton on continuing affairs with ‘bimbos’  —  A website claiming to have hacked former Secretary of State Colin Powell's private emails has published correspondence that appears to show Powell accusing President Bill Clinton  —  of adultery.

Trump bought a 6-foot-tall portrait of himself with charity money.  We may have found it.  —  In 2007, Donald Trump spent $20,000 that belonged to his charity — the Donald J. Trump Foundation — to buy a six-foot-tall portrait of himself, during a fundraiser auction at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

An Editorial — Joseph W. McQuaid, Publisher: A better choice for President (No need to hold your nose)  —  New Hampshire Union Leader Publisher … In 1972, Union Leader Publisher William Loeb found himself having to recommend either President Richard Nixon or challenger George McGovern.

The Time Trump's Campaign Manager Called Americans “a Bunch of Pigs”  —  Immediately after the news broke that Hillary Clinton had said that half of Donald Trump's supporters were racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, or Islamophobic and belonged in a “basket of deplorables,” Kellyanne Conway …

Time to Face It: Trump Really Could Win This  —  If Democrats are starting to panic, they should.  What else do they have to throw at him?  —  If you aren't seriously contemplating the biggest black swan event in American electoral history, you aren't paying attention.

GOP negotiators reach deal to postpone IRS impeachment vote  —  House Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte have reached a tentative compromise to postpone a vote to impeach the IRS commissioner, sources familiar with the talks told POLITICO.

Donald Trump Wants Peter Thiel On The Supreme Court, Sources Say  —  The eccentric billionaire endorsed Trump in a speech at the Republican National Convention this summer.  —  Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post  —  Donald Trump has made it clear he will nominate Peter Thiel …

New Records Shed Light on Donald Trump's $25,000 Gift to Florida Official  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — It was Aug. 29, 2013, an unremarkable day inside Florida's whitewashed Capitol, and a typically sweltering one outside among the moss-bearded oaks and sabal palms.

Why Florida is still in play for Trump  —  MIAMI — The nation's biggest battleground state should have buried Donald Trump's White House hopes.  —  With Florida's booming Hispanic population, Trump's harsh immigration rhetoric sounded like political suicide.

Ivanka Trump on Her Father's New Child Care and Maternity Leave Policy  —  Cosmopolitan.com spoke to the 34-year-old Trump Organization executive about the plan she heavily influenced.  —  On Tuesday night, Donald Trump released a child care and maternity leave plan that offers new mothers six weeks …

Donald Trump, scam artist … THE TRUMP campaign believes this editorial is not journalism.  It is “badgering.”  That is how campaign manager Kellyanne Conway described on Tuesday some simple questions The Post and others have asked Mr. Trump and his circle over the past several months about his supposed philanthropic activities.

Pessimistic or Optimistic?  Election-Wise, It Matters (POLL)  —  Two-thirds of Americans feel they have little or no influence over the actions of the federal government.  Forty-five percent say the country's greatness is ebbing.  As many see voter fraud as commonplace.

Gold Toilet  —  Five years ago, the artist Maurizio Cattelan announced his retirement from art by hanging virtually everything he had done—a hundred and twenty-eight startling objects and images—from the skylight at the top of the Guggenheim Museum's spiral atrium.

‘I hate palm trees’: The sentimental journey of Harry Reid  —  LAS VEGAS — The SUV meandered through a quiet middle-class neighborhood until it reached Harry Reid's former home, a pleasant one-story ranch house with a terra-cotta roof, pink flowers out front and a swimming pool in the back.

Latest Estimate Pegs Cost of Wars at Nearly $5 Trillion  —  The total U.S. budgetary cost of war since 2001 is $4.79 trillion, according to a report released this week from Brown University's Watson Institute.  That's the highest estimate yet.  —  Neta Crawford of Boston University …

State Senator Refuses to Stand During Pledge of Allegiance in ‘Solidarity’ With Colin Kaepernick  —  As the Missouri state Senate convened Wednesday, state senators stood to their feet to recite the Pledge of Allegiance — at least most did.  —  State Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, a St. Louis Democrat, did not stand, however.