Rioting May Tip Presidential Scales in Crucial North Carolina  —  Chaos after police killing culminate years of rising tension  —  'You've got passions that are stirred up and running high'  —  Riots threaten to sway a deadlocked presidential race in race-riven North Carolina …

Mark Cuban to take his trolling of Trump to the front row of Monday's debate  —  Mark Cuban: Trump a ‘danger’ to U.S. security  —  (CNN)When Donald Trump takes the stage on Monday night's primate time presidential debate, one of the few faces he will see will be that of a fellow billionaire that has tried to savage him in public.

Clinton has lead but is vulnerable on trust, connection with voters  —  WASHINGTON  —  Hillary Clinton heads into the first presidential debate with a 7-point lead over Donald Trump, but doubts among voters about about her trustworthiness and stamina are keeping Trump in the race, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.

Release the Charlotte Police Video  —  Elected officials who have paid any attention to the killings of civilians by the police that have roiled several cities in recent years should understand that keeping the public in the dark heightens tension and undermines trust in law enforcement.

Trump received $1.6 million from Secret Service  —  Donald Trump's campaign isn't alone in patronizing his own businesses: taxpayers are indirectly doing so, too.  —  Federal Election Commission records show that the U.S. Secret Service has paid the Trump campaign about $1.6 million to cover …

Video shows woman shooting at burglars during Gwinnett home invasion  —  GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - Police are hoping someone can help identify two home invaders.  They were caught on camera as a woman in the house shot at them.  —  “She exercised her right to defend her livelihood and property …

Palmer Luckey: The Facebook Fat Cat Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine  —  A Silicon Valley titan is putting money behind an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and circulating Internet memes maligning Hillary Clinton.  —  Oculus founder Palmer Luckey financially backed …

An Important Message About Yahoo User Security  —  A recent investigation by Yahoo has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company's network in late 2014 by what it believes is a state-sponsored actor.  The account information may have included names …

The Lying Game  —  Here's what we can be fairly sure will happen in Monday's presidential debate: Donald Trump will lie repeatedly and grotesquely, on a variety of subjects.  Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton might say a couple of untrue things.  Or she might not.

Editorial Hillary Clinton would make a sober, smart and pragmatic president.  Donald Trump would be a catastrophe.  —  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks in Orlando, Fla., on Sept. 21.  (Matt Rourke / Associated Press)  —  The Times Editorial Board

Clinton's eyes — a window into her health issues  —  In 2014 Conan O'Brien did a spoof of Hillary Clinton  —  's interview with Diane Sawyer about her lack of lingering health issues following her 2012 concussion.  In an obviously photoshopped version Clinton's eyes are made to oscillate crazily.

The Latest: Clinton Runs Ad on Trump's Remarks About Women  —  The Latest on the 2016 presidential election campaign (all times local):  —  Hillary Clinton's campaign is releasing a new television ad that rehashes some of Donald Trump's most provocative statements about women in the past.

Democrat defends daughter after tough EpiPen grilling  —  (D-W.Va.) delivered a robust defense of his daughter, Mylan Pharmaceuticals CEO Heather Bresch, one day after House lawmakers rebuked her for the recent price increases of her company's EpiPen allergy medication.

Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric For Two Years  —  Social network miscalculated the average time users spent watching videos on its platform  —  Big ad buyers and marketers are upset with Facebook Inc. after learning the tech giant vastly overestimated average viewing time for video ads …

Statement from Glenn Reynolds  —  'I didn't live up to my own standards, and I didn't meet USA TODAY's standards.  For that I apologize.'  —  Wednesday night one of my 580,000 tweets blew up.  I didn't live up to my own standards, and I didn't meet USA TODAY's standards.

How A Decision In May Changed The General Election  —  Last summer, when Donald Trump began his rise to the nomination, Hillary Clinton responded by pointing a finger squarely and firmly at the Republican Party.  —  Trump might sound extreme, she said, “but if you look at everyone else's policies, they're pretty much the same.”

Email shows federal immigration bosses in OT push to swear in new citizens ‘due to election’  —  An internal Obama administration email shows immigration officials may be literally working overtime to swear in as many new “citizen voters” as possible before the Nov. 8 presidential election, a powerful lawmaker charged Thursday.

Recalculating the Climate Math  —  The numbers on global warming are even scarier than we thought.  —  The future of humanity depends on math.  And the numbers in a new study released Thursday are the most ominous yet.  —  Those numbers spell out, in simple arithmetic …

Past is prologue in police relations with people of color  —  On September 20th, news broke of another series of indefensible, senseless murders of unarmed black men occurred at the hands of police officers.  —  In Tulsa, Oklahoma on September 15, Terence Crutcher's car broke down and he pulled …