Teen Beauty Queens Say Trump Walked In On Them Changing  —  “Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before.”  —  Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant said Donald Trump walked into the dressing room while contestants — some as young as 15 — were changing.

Poll: Trump falls into tie with Clinton among Utah voters  —  SALT LAKE CITY — Republican Donald Trump appears to have, in his earlier words, “a tremendous problem in Utah” as a new poll shows him slipping into a dead heat with Democrat Hillary Clinton since crude comments he made about women surfaced last weekend.

Conway: GOP ‘dangerously close’ to becoming party of elites until Trump  —  Far from alienating many who might otherwise vote for a Republican for president, Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Wednesday morning that the Manhattan billionaire has rescued the GOP from becoming “the party of the elites.”

The Daily 202: Republican politicians fall back in line behind Trump after defecting  —  THE BIG IDEA: Now that it has become crystal clear Donald Trump will not quit—that he has “unshackled” himself and plans to “limp” across the finish line—some Republicans who called on him to drop out over the weekend are reversing themselves.

Major GOP Donors Are Asking Trump for Their Money Back  —  Donald Trump's big-dollar donors asking for their money back, NBC News learns 2:52  —  Two big-money donors who have given or raised tens of thousands of dollars for Donald Trump are livid at the Republican presidential nominee …

Neb. senator re-endorses Trump after tape scandal  —  Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer was on Donald Trump's team.  Then she wasn't.  Now she is again.  —  Fischer, who on Saturday suggested Republican nominee Donald Trump should “step aside and allow Mike Pence” to become the GOP's candidate …

NY Trump Supporter Arrested After Threatening To Beat Black Woman  —  A Donald Trump supporter was arrested Monday night after allegedly threatening to beat a black woman outside a ShopRite in upstate New York, the Albany Times-Union reported.  —  Todd Warnken, 55, was asked to leave the store after …

New Ohio poll puts Hillary Clinton ahead of Donald Trump by 9 points after news of Trump's vulgar talk  —  Hillary Clinton has opened up a big lead over Donald Trump in Ohio, according to the most thorough statewide poll to date, conducted by the Baldwin Wallace University Community Research Institute.

F.B.I. Investigating if Fatal Plane Crash in East Hartford Was Intentional  —  The F.B.I. is investigating whether the crash of a small plane in East Hartford, Conn., that killed a passenger on Tuesday was intentional, according to four federal law enforcement officials.

'I Think He's a Very Dangerous Man for the Next Three or Four Weeks'  —  Back in early March, Politico Magazine brought together five Donald Trump biographers for a conversation over lunch at Trump Tower.  At the time, the country was just beginning to grapple with the reality …

Exclusive: Trump campaign CEO wanted to destroy Ryan  —  's presidential campaign, gave explicit orders to his staff to destroy Speaker Paul Ryan  —  (R-Wis.).  —  On editorial conference calls, the Breitbart chairman would often say “Paul Ryan is the enemy,” according to a source who worked with Bannon at the news organization.

Election Update: Women Are Defeating Donald Trump  —  A series of national polls released on Tuesday showed Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by margins ranging from 5 to 11 percentage points — except for the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times tracking poll, which defiantly continues to show Trump up by 2 points.

Support for marijuana legalization continues to rise  —  The share of Americans who favor legalizing the use of marijuana continues to increase.  Today, 57% of U.S. adults say the use of marijuana should be made legal, while 37% say it should be illegal.  A decade ago, opinion on legalizing marijuana …

Split Over Donald Trump Threatens to Tilt Republican States  —  Donald J. Trump's intensifying battle with his own party is tearing open the nation's political map, pulling Republicans across the country into a self-destructive feud that could imperil dozens of lawmakers in Congress …

History Is Full of Surprises  —  History is full of surprises.  Never have I, looking back on history, found it to go precisely as I had anticipated it would go.  Always the reality of history's progress plays tricks on us.  It now appears that the sexual revolution begun in the late 1960s is ending …

Russia orders all officials to fly home any relatives living abroad, as tensions mount over the prospect of a global war  —  Russia is ordering all of its officials to fly home any relatives living abroad amid heightened tensions over the prospect of global war, it has been claimed.

Bill Clinton: Trump's ‘standard redneck’ base is what I grew up in  —  Bill Clinton suggested this week that GOP nominee Donald Trump's base comprised mostly “rednecks.”  —  “The other guy's base is what I grew up in,” the former president said during a campaign stop in Fort Myers, Fla. “You know, I'm basically your standard redneck.”