Trump angry at allies conceding he lost debate  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump is angry that his aides and advisers have conceded to reporters — largely without attribution — that the Republican nominee struggled in his first presidential debate.  —  In a conference call …

HOW DONALD TRUMP'S COMPANY VIOLATED THE UNITED STATES EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA  —  THE SCOOP DONALD TRUMP CUBA  —  A company controlled by Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, secretly conducted business in communist Cuba during Fidel Castro's presidency despite strict American trade bans …

Endorsement: Libertarian Gary Johnson for president  —  Today this newspaper does something it has never done in its 143-year history: endorse someone other than the Republican candidate in a presidential contest.  —  Since its founding in 1873, The Detroit News has backed a Republican every …

Obama had a tense exchange with CNN's Jake Tapper over why he won't say ‘radical Islamic terrorism’  —  President Barack Obama sparred with CNN host Jake Tapper on Wednesday night in a tense exchange over Obama's refusal to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.”

More than 100 reported hurt, passengers trapped after train crash at Hoboken, NJ station  —  DEVELOPING: More than 100 people were reported hurt, many critically, and others remained trapped after a train slammed into a busy station in Hoboken, N.J., during the Thursday morning commute as emergency workers rushed to the scene.

Donald Trump says Google proves he's winning — and is trying to make sure he loses  —  At the top of his rally in the critical Wisconsin county of Waukesha on Wednesday night, Donald Trump accused the search giant Google of both impeding and bolstering his candidacy.

Why Clinton hasn't put Trump away  —  My first impression, after watching the opening chapter of the Trump-Clinton debate trilogy Monday, was that really not much would change as a result.  Trump had been his rude, sputtering, substance-free self; Clinton had proved herself again …

Employees at Trump's California golf course say he wanted to fire women who weren't pretty enough  —  D  —  onald Trump wanted only the pretty ones, his employees said.  —  After the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes opened for play in 2005, its world-famous owner didn't stop …

Clinton Leads in Key Battlegrounds; Seen As Big Debate Winner  —  New Public Policy Polling surveys in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, conducted on behalf of VoteVets Action Fund, find Hillary Clinton leading in each state.  Voters in all five states see Clinton …

Cover Story: Donald Trump Is Barry Blitt's “Miss Congeniality”  —  “She was the worst we ever had, the worst, the absolute worst, she was impossible,” Donald Trump told Fox News the morning after his debate with Hillary Clinton, defending his treatment of Alicia Machado …

EXCLUSIVE: NY Attorney General's Probe Of Trump Foundation Appears To Widen  —  The New York attorney general's investigation of the Donald J. Trump Foundation appears to have broadened to include new allegations of self-dealing by Trump that surfaced after the probe began, TPM has learned.

How Russia Wants to Undermine the U.S. Election  —  What's behind Russia's effort to influence the U.S. election  —  The leaders of the U.S. government, including the President and his top national-security advisers, face an unprecedented dilemma.  Since the spring, U.S. intelligence …

Megyn Kelly Tears Kellyanne Conway to Bits Over Trump's History of Misogyny  —  This is one interview that stands above the rest in a sea of truly intense Election 2016 interviews.  —  As you'll recall, Megyn Kelly was dragged through the mud by Donald Trump for well over a year because she asked …

Trump slams media for dismissing online post-debate polls  —  on Wednesday criticized the media for saying online post-debate polls “don't mean anything,” as he continues to brag about winning the surveys many consider unscientific and unrepresentative.  —  At a rally in Council Bluffs …

How Donald Trump Set Off a Civil War Within the Right-Wing Media  —  Since the candidate clinched the nomination, the green room has become a chilly place.  —  In recent years, one of the most important events on a prospective Republican presidential candidate's calendar was the RedState Gathering …

Clinton Leads by 4 Nationally; Trump Hurt Himself in Debate  —  PPP's new national poll finds Hillary Clinton leading by 4 points both in the full field of candidates, and in a head to head match up with Donald Trump.  In the full field she gets 44% to 40% for Trump, 6% for Gary Johnson, 2% for Evan McMullin, and 1% for Jill Stein.

Suspect in deadly crime spree in Dallas, Cedar Hill is three-time deportee  —  The suspect in a deadly crime spree in Cedar Hill and Dallas on Sunday was deported from the U.S. three times before his arrest outside Austin on Tuesday.  —  Silvestre Franco-Luviano, 40, was taken into custody …

Gingrich on former Miss Universe: 'You're not supposed to gain 60 pounds'  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich backed up Donald Trump's weight-based attacks against a former pageant winner, telling an audience Wednesday night that “you're not supposed to gain 60 pounds during the year that you're Miss Universe.”

Pondering the Supreme Court's Future  —  Anyone interested in the future of the Supreme Court might ponder a three-sentence order the court issued on the last day of August.  It announced the court's denial of North Carolina's emergency request to reinstate the voter ID and two other provisions …

Ohio, Long a Bellwether, Is Fading on the Electoral Map  —  ATHENS, Ohio — After decades as one of America's most reliable political bellwethers, an inevitable presidential battleground that closely mirrored the mood and makeup of the country, Ohio is suddenly fading in importance this year.