VICE News reporter arrested outside a Donald Trump campaign event  —  Alex Thompson, a reporter for VICE News, was arrested by Houston Police today while inquiring about press access to an event held for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Omni Westside Hotel.

Explosion rocks Chelsea in New York City … A dumpster blew up at 8:30 p.m. Saturday night in Chelsea, blowing out the lower windows of a 14-story residence for the blind.  —  At least 26 suffered minor injuries from what may have been an explosive device, police sources told The Post.

Democrats Panic as Colorado Slips Away to Donald Trump...  Democrats are beginning to panic as they watch Colorado slide away from Hillary Clinton.  —  Hillary was ahead by double digits in Colorado last month.  —  The latest polling has Trump up by four points.

A Trump Empire Built on Inside Connections and $885 Million in Tax Breaks  —  In the mid-1970s, eager to make his mark in Manhattan, the 30-year-old Mr. Trump focused his attention on the failing Commodore Hotel on East 42nd Street, next to Grand Central Terminal.  The owner, the bankrupt Penn Central Railroad, was keen to sell.

Clinton: People Have Thrown “Hateful Nonsense” At The Obamas  —  WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton answered her opponent's admission Friday that Barack Obama was born in the United States with an ardent tribute to the president as a leader and a man of “class, grace, and integrity.”

Sizing Up the Next Commander-in-Chief  —  Neither candidate has seriously addressed how he or she thinks about the military or the use of force.  —  You wouldn't know it from the presidential campaigns, but the first serious crisis to face our new president most likely will be international.

Exclusive: Here's who's playing Tim Kaine in GOP debate prep  —  In Mike Pence's prep sessions for the vice-presidential debate, the role of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) is being played by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a top GOP source told POLITICO on Saturday.  —  The first mock debate has already been held.

‘Pipe bomb-style device’ explodes along military 5K route in Seaside  —  SEASIDE PARK — An explosive device went off in a garbage pail Saturday morning along the route of a 5K run and walk to benefit military soldiers.  —  Multiple devices were also found “wired together” in the same garbage pail …

Trump stumbles after surge in polls  —  After several weeks of positive news cycles and polling gains brought about by a more disciplined campaign, Donald Trump  —  has committed a series of stumbles in recent days that experts see as a return to “bad Trump.”

2 cops shot, suspect and bystander killed in West Philly rampage  —  A gunman ambushed a Philadelphia police sergeant late Friday night, firing more than a dozen rounds before taking off, and then shot four civilians and a University of Pennsylvania police officer during his flight before he was finally cornered and killed by police.

Black Dallas Cop Sues Black Lives Matter, Soros for Inciting Race War  —  The head of a Dallas police organization is suing a collection of Black Lives Matter figureheads and other prominent individuals for allegedly inciting racial violence against American police officers.

Trump to Victims of Illegal Alien Crime: You Have Been ‘Forced into the Shadows’  —  On Saturday, Republican nominee Donald Trump addressed the American families victimized by open borders that have been “forced into the shadows” by both establishment politicians and media elites.

The Intellectual Yet Idiot  —  What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league …