The GOP tumbles toward anarchy: 'It's every person for himself or herself'  —  The Republican Party tumbled toward anarchy Monday over its presidential nominee, as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.) cut Donald Trump loose in an emergency maneuver to preserve the party's endangered congressional majorities.

Trump bounces back  —  ST. LOUIS — You can make a good argument that Donald Trump won the second presidential debate with Hillary Clinton.  You could also argue that no one won.  But it's probably beyond dispute that Trump's performance will shut down Republican defections from his struggling campaign, at least for now.

Ryan abandons Trump  —  Speaker Paul Ryan told House Republicans on a conference call Monday morning that he's done defending Donald Trump and will focus on maintaining his party's increasingly imperiled House majority, according to sources on the call.  —  The message amounted to a concession …

McConnell: Don't ask me about Trump  —  As GOP senators scramble to survey the damage caused by Donald Trump  —  's explicit comments about women, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell  —  had some direct advice for a local Kentucky group: Don't ask him about the presidential election.