Poll: Clinton, Trump in virtual dead heat on eve of first debate  —  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will meet Monday night for their first debate in a virtual dead heat in the race for the White House, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, with the Democratic nominee's August advantage erased …

Suspect in mall shooting arrested; community mourns victims  —  Families of five people killed during a shooting rampage at a Burlington mall Friday night were mourning Saturday, as police arrested a suspect in Oak Harbor.  —  BURLINGTON, Skagit County — Tips and surveillance video led …

Debate Commission Official Wary of Moderators Fact-Checking: Shouldn't Be ‘Encyclopedia’  —  The executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates is wary about all these demands that the moderators should be fact-checking everything the candidates say.

BREAKING: Ankle Holster Clearly Visible As Police Release Keith Scott Shooting Video  —  Charlotte police are releasing body camera and dash camera video of the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, a convicted felon who was shot and killed by Officer Brentley Vinson after Scott was told by police to drop his handgun 11 times in 45 seconds.

How to Cover a Charlatan Like Trump  —  WITH presidential debates approaching, we in journalism are locked in a fierce dispute: How should we report on a duplicitous demagogue?  —  Traditionally, American reporters respond to a controversy by quoting people on each side and letting the public decide.

Donald Trump's Week of Misrepresentations, Exaggerations and Half-Truths  —  As August ended, a new Donald Trump emerged.  Coached by his third campaign management team, he stayed on message, read from a teleprompter and focused on policy.  It lasted about a month.

Scope of Trump's falsehoods unprecedented for a modern presidential candidate  —  Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Jackson, Miss. (Jonathan Bachman / Getty Images)  —  Donald Trump says that taxes in the United States are higher than almost anywhere else on earth.  They're not.

The FBI Investigation of EmailGate Was a Sham  —  NSA Analyst: We now have incontrovertible proof the Bureau never had any intention of prosecuting Hillary Clinton  —  From the moment the EmailGate scandal went public more than a year ago, it was obvious that the Federal Bureau …

My Vote  —  I am late weighing in on this election—late in more ways than one.  Monday brought my ninety-sixth birthday, and, come November, I will be casting my nineteenth ballot in a Presidential election.  My first came in 1944, when I voted for a fourth term for Franklin Delano Roosevelt …

Virginia Slim: The Race Tightens  —  Trump on the rise in the Old Dominion.  —  Photo credit: Evan Vucci / AP  —  Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Wash-ing-ton, addressed a local group in Fred-ericksburg, Virginia, last week and talked about Donald Trump's chances of winning the state.